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Not many people attend the Pac-12’s annual conference championship game but a change of venue may just fix that issue for the league.
During Wednesday’s Pac-12 Media Day event, commissioner Larry Scott announced the league’s title game will be on the move starting in 2020. The Pac-12 previously held the title game in Santa Clara, California.
“This year, the Pac-12 will crown its champion at the Pac-12 Football Championship at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, where we have had some memorable games over the past six years, and we’ve enjoyed a great partnership with the San Francisco 49ers,” Scott said on Wednesday. “At the same time, we’ve always envisioned taking this crown jewel event to other major markets around our footprint, and today I’m very excited and pleased to announce that our Football Championship Game for the years 2020 and 2021 will be played in the brand-new Las Vegas Stadium, the new home of the NFL Raiders, which has proved to be a very successful and desirable destination location for the Pac-12 men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, and ones that I know our fans have really enjoyed, and they’re going to enjoy going to our championship game in Las Vegas.”
Taking the game to Vegas should make for a much more fan-friendly experience and it will be interesting to see if Pac-12 fans start showing up more often for the league title game. If being in Vegas doesn’t entice some of these fans to show up and watch the best football the Pac-12 has to offer, nothing likely will.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
