Las Vegas Bowl’s John Saccenti meets with Pac-12 schools

John Saccenti traveled to Pac-12 headquarters in San Francisco this week to discuss the business aspect of the Las Vegas Bowl.

The executive director of the local bowl met with officials from Washington, Washington State, Stanford, Southern California, Utah, Colorado and Arizona State.

“We will discuss the bowl process, selection process and then how to market and sell our bowl games to the participating schools fans,” Saccenti said before leaving for San Francisco. “We then will meet with each individual team that is potentially bowl eligible, typically these meetings are with a senior administrator from a potential school and the football team representatives.

“In these meetings, we take the schools through all the necessary information within our bowl manual should they be selected to play in our game. Topics include tickets, host hotels, logistics gifting and bowl week schedule of events.”

Saccenti also will keep an eye on the major games from the Mountain West and Pac-12 this weekend.

The Las Vegas Bowl committee is intrigued by San Diego State’s game at Wyoming on Saturday. A win by the Aztecs would put Boise State back in control to win the Mountain West Mountain division.

Wyoming’s surprising loss to UNLV last weekend gave Boise State new life to play in the conference championship game against San Diego State on Dec. 3.

Stanford at California and Washington State at Colorado are the must-watch Saturday Pac-12 games for the Las Vegas Bowl committee.

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