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It’s Utah vs Northwestern in Las Vegas Bowl At Allegiant Stadium Dec. 23

Alan Snel

By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

The SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl will match Northwestern from the Big Ten and Utah from the Pac-12 for a 4:30 PM Vegas time matchup at Allegiant Stadium on Dec. 23.

Tickets, which start at $70 (plus fees), are available by visiting www.lvbowl.com. The Las Vegas Bowl is one of 17 bowl games owned and operated by ESPN Events, a division of ESPN.

The first Las Vegas Bowl dates back to Dec. 18, 1992 and is the 16th oldest bowl game our of the 39 bowl games recognized by the NCAA.

The Las Vegas Bowl has a five-year naming rights deal with SRS Distribution, a private company of independent roofing distributors based in McKinney, Texas,

The Utes of the Pac-12 Conference, serving as the away team, will make their record-tying sixth appearance in the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl while the Wildcats of the Big Ten Conference will make their first appearance.

The two programs have met just three times with Northwestern holding a 2-1 advantage.

 

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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