LA Bowl

The LA Bowl (branded as the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl presented by Stifel for sponsorship reasons), is an upcoming NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivisioncollege footballbowl game scheduled to be played at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, starting with the inaugural game on December 18, 2021. The game plans to feature bowl-eligible teams from the Mountain West and Pac-12 conferences.

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The Mountain West and Pac-12 announced tie-ins for the new bowl in July 2019, under a five-year agreement.[1] The game was officially unveiled in February 2020. It will match up the Mountain West champion (or the next-highest pick available if the conference champion is selected for the New Year’s Six) against the fifth pick from the Pac-12. Previously, the Mountain West champion had received an automatic bid to the Las Vegas Bowl.[2] The game is owned and operated by the owners of SoFi Stadium,[3] StadCo LA, LLC.[4]

Three weeks before the scheduled bowl game debut on December 30, 2020, the game was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]

On June 16, 2021, the game was renamed the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl as part of a naming rights agreement with comedian and late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. Announcing the renaming on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel remarked that “never before has a bowl game been named after a human being (as far as I know, I didn’t check)”.[6] The game is the first bowl named for a living figure; the Will RogersBowl was held in Oklahoma City in 1947 as a memorial to the actor who died in 1935. The investment bank Stifel was later added as a presenting sponsor.[3]

The 2021 game will be televised by ABC.[6]

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