Ranking BYU football’s 10 best wins of the 2000s

9. BYU vs Oregon, 2006 Las Vegas Bowl

Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti famously turned heel during the Vegas Bowl press junket, saying that BYU football “wouldn’t even be a mid-level Pac-10 team.”

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The Cougars trounced the Ducks 38-8, making an emphatic statement on the talent-level in Provo.

John Beck threw for 375 yards and two touchdowns. Curtis Brown ran for 120 yards and two touchdowns. Johnny Harline caught nine passes for 181 yards and a touchdown, and the Cougars shut the Ducks out through three quarters.

The win was the first bowl victory for BYU football since the 1996 season.