BleedGopher
Well-known member
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2008
- Messages
- 61,974
- Reaction score
- 18,168
- Points
- 113
per ESPN:
The Rose Bowl remains the most revered postseason name in college football and has long been viewed as the Holy Grail for the Big Ten. The sunny skies and majestic setting that beckoned chilly Midwesterners to Southern California for New Year's Day helped fuel the popularity of the event. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany rightly calls the Rose Bowl "the most important external relationship that we have."
But as the Granddaddy of Them All begins its second century, both its relationship with the Big Ten and its very nature are about to change, thanks to the arrival of the College Football Playoff.
The Rose Bowl will serve as a national semifinal site this year and in the 2017, 2020 and 2023 seasons. If a Big Ten team wants to go to Pasadena in those years, the playoff is the only route. (And even that is not necessarily guaranteed, as it will be up to the selection committee's seeding preferences). In the years in which it is not a part of the playoff rotation, the Rose Bowl will stage its traditional Big Ten/Pac-12 matchup. But any Big Ten team that makes it in those years either (A) won the league and missed out on the playoff or (B) did not win the conference title.
Think about this: A Big Ten champion that gets snubbed for the four-team playoff could actually be -- gasp -- disappointed to play in the Rose Bowl. That would be a first.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/106035/in-playoff-era-will-rose-stay-as-sweet
Go Gophers!!
The Rose Bowl remains the most revered postseason name in college football and has long been viewed as the Holy Grail for the Big Ten. The sunny skies and majestic setting that beckoned chilly Midwesterners to Southern California for New Year's Day helped fuel the popularity of the event. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany rightly calls the Rose Bowl "the most important external relationship that we have."
But as the Granddaddy of Them All begins its second century, both its relationship with the Big Ten and its very nature are about to change, thanks to the arrival of the College Football Playoff.
The Rose Bowl will serve as a national semifinal site this year and in the 2017, 2020 and 2023 seasons. If a Big Ten team wants to go to Pasadena in those years, the playoff is the only route. (And even that is not necessarily guaranteed, as it will be up to the selection committee's seeding preferences). In the years in which it is not a part of the playoff rotation, the Rose Bowl will stage its traditional Big Ten/Pac-12 matchup. But any Big Ten team that makes it in those years either (A) won the league and missed out on the playoff or (B) did not win the conference title.
Think about this: A Big Ten champion that gets snubbed for the four-team playoff could actually be -- gasp -- disappointed to play in the Rose Bowl. That would be a first.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/106035/in-playoff-era-will-rose-stay-as-sweet
Go Gophers!!