By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
The first Las Vegas Bowl in Allegiant Stadium will match Wisconsin against Arizona State Dec. 30 at 7:30PM Vegas time.
The bowl game, which used to match the Mountain West champ vs a Pac-12 team at Sam Boyd Stadium, has sold about 36,000-37,000 tickets for the new college football showdown under a new Las Vegas Bowl deal between the Pac-12 and the Big Ten/SEC.
John Saccenti, the bowl game’s executive director, said UCLA was in the mix as a potential Pac-12 team but there were schedule issues with the UCLA basketball team.
Arizona State vs Wisconsin should easily sell out the rest of the 17,000 or so tickets. Wisconsin fans are known to travel well to their football games on the road, while Arizona State is in a border state.
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In April, SRS Distribution signed a five-year deal to be the bowl game’s title sponsor.
SRS Distribution is a private company of independent roofing distributors based in McKinney, Texas.
While new to the bowl, Wisconsin is no stranger to Las Vegas having faced UNLV five times at Sam Boyd Stadium between 1986 and 2010, including accounting for the Rebels’ top three home crowds in history.
The Pac-12 will face a team from the Big Ten in 2021, ’23 and ’25 and a team from the Southeastern Conference in 2022 and ’24.