The Pac-12 Conference announced its football championship game will remain in Las Vegas in 2023.

Commissioner George Kliavkoff said Thursday that the conference had extended its contract to host the game at Allegiant Stadium for a third straight year.

The Pac-12 originally had a two-year agreement to play the conference's title game at Allegiant in 2020 and 2021. The contract was pushed back by one year, to 2021 and 2022, because of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Utah defeated Oregon 38-10 to win last year's championship game. The Utes return to play USC for this year's title on Friday, Dec. 2.

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"As the sports and entertainment capital of the world, Las Vegas has been an amazing home for our premier Pac-12 events and Allegiant Stadium is an amazing setting to host our football championship for our teams, student-athletes and fans," Kliavkoff said in a statement.

Thursday's announcement was made in coordination with Allegiant Stadium, the Las Vegas Raiders, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and MGM Resorts.

Prior to becoming the Pac-12 commissioner last year, Kliavkoff was a sports entertainment executive with MGM Resorts.