The bowl will likewise move to a post-Christmas date just because, per a six-year bargain between the occasion and the three meetings that go through 2025.
The understanding methods the game will be held in a bigger setting, at a progressively helpful time for voyaging fans and highlight more prominent groups than previously. Already the occasion highlighted the 6th choice from the Pac-12 and the victor of the Group of Five Mountain West Conference and was hung on the principal day of bowl season.
"We are really a national bowl game presently, instead of a provincial bowl game," Las Vegas Bowl Executive Director John Saccenti said. "We had Mountain West and Pac-12 so once we got the chance to directly around Colorado, we were finished. In any case, presently we're contacting the Southeastern Conference and every one of the groups inside the Southeastern Conference. We're contacting the Big Ten and every one of the groups in the Midwest and in the Big Ten Conference. So it's genuinely a national game."
The understanding requires the Las Vegas Bowl to share the subsequent determination out of the Pac-12 with the Holiday Bowl. In even years (2020, 2022, 2024) that group will confront an SEC adversary picked after the College Football Playoff and Citrus Bowl make their choices. The Las Vegas Bowl will part a spot in the SEC lineup with the Belk Bowl and have a place with the "pool of six" that offers need with the Outback, Gator, Music City, Liberty and Texas Bowl.
The last SEC group to play in the Las Vegas Bowl was Arkansas in 2000. The arrangement makes the Las Vegas Bowl the main standard bowl matchup between the Pac-12 and SEC.
"This is something our fans have been longing for," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said.
In odd years (2021, 2023, 2025), Las Vegas will have a Big Ten group picked after the CFP, Citrus and Outback Bowl choices. It will share a spot in the gathering's lineup with the Music City Bowl. The Las Vegas Bowl has never highlighted a Big Ten group.
"There's no doubt as far as I can tell that this game is going to pop," friendly Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said. "It will fly on TV, it will fly for our fans."
The news leaves the Mountain West's bowl future uncertain after the last Las Vegas Bowl under the present arrangement is playing Dec. 21 at Sam Boyd Stadium. Pete Derzis, ESPN's senior VP of school sports and occasions, said there have been dialogs of moving the past Las Vegas Bowl matchup to another city and setting. Scott reverberated those announcements and added he planned to have news on that front "sooner rather than later."
Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson said in an announcement sent to the Review-Journal that the class is "satisfied with the advancement we've made" in rounding out its six-game bowl lineup however a declaration isn't likely until its football media days July 23-24 in Las Vegas.
Developing past the Mountain West into an understanding including three Power 5 meetings ought to be an aid to the Las Vegas Bowl's profile, in any case. The move from a 36,800-seat arena to one expected to hold 65,000 will support income, and Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority President and CEO Steve Hill assessed the new organization will twofold the occasion's monetary effect to nearly $50 million.
"We're certain about that," Hill said. "We'll meet up as a city to make this an extraordinary occasion. It's not hard when you have these meetings and the groups that will come."
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