The Rose Bowl literally keeps the earth spinning

Fucking hippies
 
78Cyclones said:
I've been to the Rose Bowl Game on NYD. I went to the 2010 game and saw Ohio State beat Oregon on a glorious day. Pic attached! It's one of my top Bowl Game experiences, and I've been to 44 Bowl Games including all of the Majors.

As for my saltiness, it has to do with the faux outrage article.

The Rose Bowl was Open in it's Golden Era - when it matched the top team from the West against a top team from the East (not just the B1G). During that Era, the Tide played in 6 Rose Bowls with a 4-1-1 record before the Rose Bowl closed its doors to most of college football. For example, both Don Hutson AND Coach Bryant played in the 1935 Rose Bowl win over Stanford for Alabama

The article talks about losing the tradition of the Rose Bowl with the B1G. Then he talks about the first national broadcast which was in 1927 as part of the Rose Bowl glory. Funny thing, that broadcast was between Alabama and Stanford before the Rose Bowl became exclusive.

Just pointing out the hypocosy of the article claiming the Rose Bowl had something to do with TOGETHERNESS, when it flat out became the opposite after World War II.

Ironically, one line in the Alabama's fight song is "Remember the Rose Bowl, we'll win then." That stems from Alabama playing in the 1926, 1927, 1931, 1935, 1938 and 1946 Rose Bowls with a 4-1-1 record before the exclusionary contract with the B1G stopped them being eligible any longer. So, they started going to the Orange, Cotton and Sugar instead until they made it back for a 7th Rose Bowl Game and won their 5th in the 2021 Rose Bowl played @ Arlington (due to Covid). Alabama fans understand and appreciate their Rose Bowl History.

So, perhaps, I am salty as a part-time Alabama fan! Damn right. Alabama has as good or better Rose Bowl history than the MAJORITY of Pac and B1G teams, and they were not allowed to play in the game for 50 + years.
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That’s a lot of words.
 
Rose Bowl cut its own throat but in the end it will be ok.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
Georgia won arguably the most exciting Rose Bowl ever
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The faux outrage over the Rose Bowl having affiliation with two conferences is laughably sad.

The Cotton Bowl always had the Southwest Conference Champion.

The Sugar Bowl always had the SEC Champion.

The Orange Bowl always had the Big 8 Champion.

The Rose Bowl was the only bowl guaranteed to have two conference champions in it every year. Until the BCS arrived, the other bowls were the ones making it harder to find CFB's true National Champion.
 
Bring Back The Oilers said:
The faux outrage over the Rose Bowl having affiliation with two conferences is laughably sad.

The Cotton Bowl always had the Southwest Conference Champion.

The Sugar Bowl always had the SEC Champion.

The Orange Bowl always had the Big 8 Champion.

The Rose Bowl was the only bowl guaranteed to have two conference champions in it every year. Until the BCS arrived, the other bowls were the ones making it harder to find CFB's true National Champion.
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Not necessarily. You need to learn some history.

#2 Alabama (SEC Champ) played #1 Nebraska (Big 8 Champ) in the '71 Orange Bowl.

The Rose Bowl prevented #1 Nebraska from facing #2 Penn St in 1994, and prevented #1 Michigan from playing #2 Nebraska in 1997.

#2 Penn St played #12 Oregon in the Rose Bowl while #1 Nebraska played #3 Miami, FL in the Orange Bowl
#1 Michigan played #8 Washington St while #2 Nebraska played #3 Tennessee in the Orange Bowl

The Big 10, Pac 10, and Rose Bowl were never about playing the best available. They fought it tooth and nail through the Bowl Coalition and Bowl Alliance. Now they're forced to fucking earn their titles.

I'd venture to say the Sugar, Orange, Cotton, and even Fiesta pitted far more games with 'best available' than the Rose Bowl did.
 
I'm an old and a sucker for the Rosebowl game.. It's still the best bowl to me regardless of who's playing in it. The people running it need to get with the times.. history is history, but things change.. they got to get the memo.
 
Thiefery said:
I'm an old and a sucker for the Rosebowl game.. It's still the best bowl to me regardless of who's playing in it. The people running it need to get with the times.. history is history, but things change.. they got to get the memo.
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They got two memos.

1) The BCS
2) The CFP

No more hiding in the Rose Bowl.
 
Bring Back The Oilers said:
The faux outrage over the Rose Bowl having affiliation with two conferences is laughably sad.

The Cotton Bowl always had the Southwest Conference Champion.

The Sugar Bowl always had the SEC Champion.

The Orange Bowl always had the Big 8 Champion.

The Rose Bowl was the only bowl guaranteed to have two conference champions in it every year. Until the BCS arrived, the other bowls were the ones making it harder to find CFB's true National Champion.
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Thiefery said:
I'm an old and a sucker for the Rosebowl game.. It's still the best bowl to me regardless of who's playing in it. The people running it need to get with the times.. history is history, but things change.. they got to get the memo.
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Fuck change.
 
broncosmitty said:
Isn’t it just the Pac12 that’s dead?

There still will be a Rose Bowl game every year. Just not with some shitty west coast team that nobody has watched all year.
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But but what is happening? Do you sumbitches know how long it has taken is to get here???

Love,
The Univ of Utah
 

Bring Back The Oilers said:
The faux outrage over the Rose Bowl having affiliation with two conferences is laughably sad.

The Cotton Bowl always had the Southwest Conference Champion.

The Sugar Bowl always had the SEC Champion.

The Orange Bowl always had the Big 8 Champion.

The Rose Bowl was the only bowl guaranteed to have two conference champions in it every year. Until the BCS arrived, the other bowls were the ones making it harder to find CFB's true National Champion.
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It's not about the Rose Bowl being tied on both ends, it's about the Rose Bowl changing from it's orginal roots (Best from the West vs. Great team from the East) after WWII and being tied on both ends and claiming NOW the Rose Bowl had something to do with TOGETHERNESS, when the tie-in was exclusionary in nature. The Rose Bowl was already a NATIONAL institution BEFORE the B1G tie-in. That's all. They wanted to limit their matchups, and that was their prerogative.

FWIW, the Sugar didn't tie-in with the SEC Champion until the 1976 season. Before that, the Sugar was open on both ends, and the SEC Champion was free to go where they were invited. When I was a kid, Alabama went to the Orange, Sugar and Cotton Bowls as SEC Champion. 'Twould have been nice if they still had the Rose Bowl as an option like they did prior to the 1946 season. Coach Bryant (who took Alabama to 8 Sugar Bowls, 5 Orange Bowls and 4 Cotton Bowls) once said, he regretted not being able to take one of his great Alabama teams to the Rose Bowl, as he thoroughly enjoyed the experience as a player in the 1935 win over Stanford.

To be fair, the Sugar Bowl is also NOW exclusionary with their SEC vs. Big Xii match-up which they created to avoid having to take non-P5 teams in non-CFP years, and the double tie-in stinks of exclusivity too.

At the end of the day, I love the Rose Bowl Game, and I look forward to many more great matchups down the line. The more teams that get to experience it, the better. The Rose Bowl isn't going anywhere. Plus, the Parade is really more important as were the Chariot Races before that. It's just the people who always like to bubble about how great it is (which it is for other reasons beyong the Pac-B1G tie-in) when they isolated themselves (which sucked) for so long that is annoying.

"Remember the Rose Bowl, we'll win then."
 
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