The 2012 Fresno State Bulldogs football team represented

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in the

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. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach

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and played their home games at

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. This was their first year as a member of the

Mountain West Conference The Mountain West Conference (MW) is one of the collegiate athletic conferences affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) (formerly I-A). The MW officially began operations o ...

. They finished the season 9–4, 7–1 in Mountain West play to share the conference championship with Boise State and

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. They were invited to the

Hawaii Bowl The Hawaiʻi Bowl is a college football bowl game that has been played in the Honolulu, Hawaii area since 2002. The game was originally held at Aloha Stadium in Halawa, Hawaii, a suburb of Honolulu, before moving to the Clarence T. C. Ching Athle ...

where they were defeated by SMU.

Personnel

Coaching staff

Roster

Depth chart

Schedule

Game summaries

Weber State

At Oregon

Colorado

At Tulsa

Last meeting was in the 2005 Liberty Bowl.

San Diego State

At Colorado State

Last meeting was in the

2008 New Mexico Bowl The 2008 New Mexico Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game held on December 20, 2008 at University Stadium on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque as part of the 2008-09 NCAA Bowl season. The game, tele ...

At Boise State

Wyoming

Last meeting was in the

2009 New Mexico Bowl The 2009 New Mexico Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on December 19, 2009, at University Stadium on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as part of the 2009–10 NCAA bowl seas ...

At New Mexico

Hawaii

At Nevada

Air Force

Last meeting was in the 2000 Silicon Valley Classic.

SMU–Hawaii Bowl

Awards and honors

* Quarterback

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was named Mountain West Conference’s Offensive Player of the Year. * Strong-safety

Phillip Thomas Phillip Thomas (born March 1, 1989) is a former American football safety. He played college football at Fresno State, and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL Draft. Early years Thomas was born in Bakers ...

was named the Mountain West Conference’s Defensive Player of the Year, and was a unanimous All-American. * Wide-receiver

Davante Adams Davante Lavell Adams (born December 24, 1992) is an American football wide receiver for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Fresno State, and was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the s ...

was named the Mountain West Conference’s Freshman of the Year.

References

{{Mountain West Conference football champions

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