The Las Vegas Bowl, formally known as the MAACO or Las Vegas Bowl, is an NCAA-sanctioned Division 1-A post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually in Las Vegas since 1992. Since 2006, the bowl gets first choice of Mountain West Conference teams. This would normally be the conference champion unless that team qualifies for the BCS. The Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl gets the fifth-place Pac-12 team to meet its MWC opponent.