(AP Photo/Greg Beacham)

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) The Pac-12 and the Mountain West believe football fans around their conferences will be eager to see what's inside SoFi Stadium.

The conferences' commissioners formally announced the new LA Bowl on Wednesday at the under-construction stadium south of downtown Los Angeles. For at least the next six years, the Mountain West's top team will face the fifth choice from the Pac-12 in December at the home stadium of the NFL's Rams and Chargers.

Standing on the upper concourse of SoFi Stadium with construction work creating a constant hum around him, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott looked optimistically toward a long relationship with both the cutting-edge venue and college football's newest bowl.

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