Here’s this week’s Las Vegas Bowl projection. The game is scheduled for December 23rd at Allegiant Stadium.
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Several people in a position to know the details say former Raiders coach Lane Kiffin didn’t want his Ole Miss squad to play at Allegiant Stadium.
The Las Vegas Bowl, which is now played at Allegiant Stadium, announced it will be played at 4:30 p.m. Dec. 17, moving back to the first Saturday of bowl games.
The Las Vegas Bowl is considering going to two games in 2020 in the new Raiders stadium. Its future with the Mountain West is uncertain as the bowl explores its options.
The Las Vegas Bowl in 1999 featured the first bowl meeting between the Western Athletic Conference and Mountain West.
Miami solved part of its problem Sunday, and that was firing coach Al Golden. But he wasn’t the Hurricanes’ entire problem.
A lot of Las Vegas movers and shakers wearing tailored blazers with open collars attended Wednesday’s Las Vegas Bowl kickoff luncheon at the Hard Rock Hotel, at a swanky restaurant called 35 Steaks + Martinis.
The national glare on college football is its usual powerful November self, what with more BCS updates than holiday sales and those in South Bend buying out the town’s supply of toilet paper to wrap around Charlie Weis’ house and trees and car and anything else connected with the besieged and yet handsomely compensated Notre Dame coach.