When Washington walks into Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas to play the Las Vegas Bowl on Saturday, Huskies coach Steve Sarkisian will have flashbacks. Sarkisian played in his own neutral site game in Sam Boyd back in 1996 when his sixth-ranked BYU Cougars took on 20th-ranked Wyoming in the Western Athletic Conference championship game. If BYU won, it would likely get into the then “bowl alliance” and play in the Cotton Bowl. Sarkisian took a zigzag route to Las Vegas the first time. He wanted to play baseball in college, not football. He had a 10-0 record as a pitcher and hit more than .400 his senior year at West High School in Torrance, Calif. He tried to walk on at USC and was...
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