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Maybe UNLV’s Football Team Will Play In Bowl Game Hosted By Rob Gronkowski In Los Angeles — It Could Happen

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

The new-and-improved UNLV football team has a lot to play for this season.

After winning five of its first six games, UNLV is a contender to win the Mountain West Conference championship.

And that would punch a ticket to the newly-named LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk game at SoFi Stadium on Dec. 16.

The LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk game used to be known as the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl.

Gronk, of course, is Rob Gronkowski, the fun-loving former Super Bowl winning tight end for the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

In true Gronk fashion, Gronkowski will present the game’s winning team with a LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk championship belt. No trophy, but UNLV — if it would win the Gronk Bowl — already has the Fremont Cannon and Pineapple trophies from wins over Nevada and Hawaii this season.

The LA Bowl is the former Las Vegas Bowl, which used to host the champion of UNLV’s conference, the Mountain West Conference.

The Mountain West champ used to play another team in the bowl game. That was until the Las Vegas Bowl moved from Sam Boyd Stadium to Allegiant Stadium and switched conference alliances, matching a Pac-12 team against a team from either a Big Ten or Southeastern Conference.

Home of the LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk

UNLV plays Colorado State later today at Allegiant Stadium. The game is 4 PM and LVSportsBiz.com will be there for coverage.

Today’s game transportation info for students:

UNLV has partnered with RTC to provide a shuttle from campus to games at Allegiant Stadium. The 613 Game Day Express will pick up from the UNLV Transit Center, located near Greenspun Hall, and drop off at Allegiant Stadium.
First departure is 2PM. (two hours before kickoff) with additional service every 20 minutes until 3:00PM (one hour before kickoff).
After the game, the route will begin departures approximately 25 minutes and one hour after the game ends.
Round-trip tickets cost $4 ($2 each way) and can be purchased on rideRTC, Lyft and Uber apps for quickest boarding.

 

 

Tags: Jimmy KimmelRob Gronkowski
Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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