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The Las Vegas Bowl will move from UNLV’s Sam Boyd Stadium to Vegas’ new NFL stadium in 2020 and in the process end a 19-year relationship with the Mountain West Conference, sources said.
Starting in 2020, which coincides with the beginning of the next NCAA bowl cycle, the Las Vegas Bowl will feature a Pac-12 team against another Power 5 conference team, sources said.
“Every Power 5 conference wants in this game because of the new stadium and location,” a source said.
A Pac-12 vs. SEC matchup would be the most intriguing and some sources consider the SEC the favorite to ultimately face the Pac-12 in the Vegas Bowl starting in 2020.
The Pac-12 currently plays bowl games against each of the Power 5 conferences, except for the SEC. The two conferences have played in only nine non-College Football Playoff/New Year’s 6 bowls. The last Pac-12 vs. SEC matchup in a non-CFB Playoff/New Year’s 6 bowl was 29 years ago in the 1989 Freedom Bowl.
Meanwhile with the Las Vegas Bowl out of the mix for the Mountain West champion starting in 2020, the league is looking at other options where to send its champ. One possibility is the Arizona Bowl in Tucson, sources said. The Mountain West also is expected to add another bowl tie-in 2020, possibly a newly created bowl in Tempe at Arizona State, sources said.
From 2001-05, the Mountain West sent its second place team to Las Vegas. Beginning in 2006, the Mountain West champion – if it didn’t qualify for a BCS, College Football Playoff or New Year’s 6 bowl – would play a Pac-12 opponent in Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Bowl began in 1992 and has been always affiliated with UNLV’s conference – either the Big West, WAC or Mountain West. -
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This needs to happen. Close to Pac12 teams, best case scenario.
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Good, fuck the MWC.
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Thanks Taft!
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Not even Larry Scott could fuck this one up.
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Fuck now I’m scaredFremontTroll said:Not even Larry Scott could fuck this one up.
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Playing southern Mississippi in the Vegas bowl will be special.
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The other thing that this new stadium could lead to is a marquee neutral site game for week 1, which could stack up to the ones in Dallas and Atlanta.
Easiest path to UW playing big time schools in the nonconference schedule who’d otherwise not want to travel out West -
HAHAHA just wait.FremontTroll said:Not even Larry Scott could fuck this one up.
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I'm pretty out of touch. I thought the NFL to Vegas thing was just a story from Ballers.
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Ballers is the stupidest fucking show
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Too bad once gambling is legal everywhere a trip to Vegas won't mean as much as far as a tourist destination goes.
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It will be fun seeing the #2 Pac team losing to Vanderbilt or Kentucky in Vegas.
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Larry Scott still has time to fuck this up.
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I assume this means we will have Asian stage shows in Vegas during the game? If so, count me in.
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The big question to me will be how this alters the P12 bowl order in terms of where it sends its teams as well as what level of SEC team comes ... the Vegas game very quickly should rise towards the top of the bowl games for the conference
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The conference needs to get out of the sun bowl and Alamo bowl or at least significantly move them down in the order. The match ups are fine but nobody from the west coast travels to San Antonio or El Paso for those games. When the NFL stadium is done in LA too hopefully that can create something to replace them.
