When will the Gophers next make the Rose Bowl??

When will the Gophers next make the Rose Bowl?

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Full disclosure: I'm in Pasadena for the USA/Mexico soccer game and have a moderate buzz after returning from the bars. My observations from this weekend: Pasadena is a awesome town - it's a sweet vibe in "Old Town" Pasadena and in the surrounding area. Also, the tailgating set up around the Rose Bowl is incredible and the stadium itself has a lot of character.

I cannot wait until the Gophers make it to the Rose Bowl. Called my dad earlier today and told him that he, my brother, and I are making the trip when the Gophers eventually make it - no matter what the cost is and what year we make the game.

Only question is: when will that be? And why do you feel it will be that amount of time?
 

Well, with Michigan back on the rise, tO$U being the premiere college team right now, Michigan State continuing to be an upper echelon Big Ten team, and Penn State starting to climb back, and then having to still beat out the NW's, Iowa's, and Wisconsin's of the conference...it might be a long while.
 


This year. I don't see another loss on the schedule.
 






TheBulldog said:
Lol. Half the schedule is TBA, and we have no idea who will be playing/coaching on the teams. I hope you're trolling.
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Does it not show the conference teams and where the games will be played? I believe the B1G representative is still determined by conf. record if the game isn't part of the NC rotation that year. Please enlighten me if that has changed. Granted the BT Championship game will provide a roadblock, but from what I see from the schedule that has been determined, it looks like an opportunity to get there with other factors being constant. Seriously, I hope I'm responding to the troll in this exchange.
 



Well, if MN can recruit a QB, and a lot more talent across the board there is a chance. It would be best the year the Rose Bowl isn't a Playoff Semi-final. Then Michigan/OSU/MSU, one of them would be lost to the CFP, leaving room in the Rose Bowl for perhaps the B1G title game loser
 

Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 said:
Does it not show the conference teams and where the games will be played? I believe the B1G representative is still determined by conf. record if the game isn't part of the NC rotation that year. Please enlighten me if that has changed. Granted the BT Championship game will provide a roadblock, but from what I see from the schedule that has been determined, it looks like an opportunity to get there with other factors being constant. Seriously, I hope I'm responding to the troll in this exchange.
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Correct. And by my math, there are 10 games already on that schedule, meaning two spots need to be filled. The other TBAs are byes.
 

I always suspected that this site was bi-polar but this confirms it. Last week people were questioning whether we could win another game this season and now we are having a poll on when we will we go to the rose bowl.:rolleyes:
 

Well the rose bowl will end up being a playoff bowl here and there so it is pretty random on how / when you get it.
 



I said 5-9 years. Still think that OSU and Michigan are the only two truly "elite" teams. PSU without Paterno may not be as big a draw for recruits. We'll see where they end up. MSU has had a good run these past few years......but even they look beatable this year. Their three point Oregon wins doesn't look very impressive anymore. The past few weeks where they have been in a dogfight with Purdue and Rutgers doesn't really instill any confidence either.

The Gophers are an improving team. The defense is very good. The offense needs to catch up.....and I think given a few more years.....this will improve as well. The fact that Kill is starting to bring in sought after recruits from the south is a good sign. Just need to find a competent QB. No reason that we cannot be on the Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin level (and PSU, MSU depending on how you look at it) on a consistent basis. From there.....the stars simply have to align.
 

Killjoy said:
I always suspected that this site was bi-polar but this confirms it. Last week people were questioning whether we could win another game this season and now we are having a poll on when we will we go to the rose bowl.:rolleyes:
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LMFAO


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Killjoy said:
I always suspected that this site was bi-polar but this confirms it. Last week people were questioning whether we could win another game this season and now we are having a poll on when we will we go to the rose bowl.:rolleyes:
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To be fair, 15 years+ is winning.
 

Killjoy said:
I always suspected that this site was bi-polar but this confirms it. Last week people were questioning whether we could win another game this season and now we are having a poll on when we will we go to the rose bowl.:rolleyes:
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I posed this question hoping to get some insight from people on where the Gophers fall as a program in the Big Ten landscape and I think there was some good insight. Also generated a nice nugget on the 2019 schedule and some discussion about the Rose Bowl as a CFB playoff game.

The key is, as others have mentioned, that the Gophers would have to win the West in a year the Rose Bowl is not a CFB playoff game and have a team from the East that is good enough to make the playoffs.

Many years 6-2 and a loss in the Big Ten Championship would be good enough to make the Rose Bowl, which is why I said 5-9 years.


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It's like the Pythagorean Theorem. It can never be proven of disproven.:rolleyes:
 

2041 - Gophs beat Colorado in a shootout


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The problem with making the Rose Bowl your focus/goal in the current configuration of the B1G, is that you can have the best team in the league and/or win the conference title, and still not qualify. Four out of every twelve years it will be in the playoff rotation, which means a conference team is not guaranteed to play there. Could you imagine Minnesota winning their first conference title since God-knows-when, only to be relegated to the Sugar or Orange bowls because Alabama and TCU are playing a semi-final in Pasadena? Welcome the current era of college football.
 

Hollinsanity said:
Many years 6-2 and a loss in the Big Ten Championship would be good enough to make the Rose Bowl, which is why I said 5-9 years.
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That is not true at all. The highest ranked B1G team would go to Pasadena, not necessarily the West champion. If, say, Michigan goes 11-1, with their only loss to OSU, and OSU runs the table and makes the playoffs, they are not going to put a 6-2, 8-4 West champion in Pasadena.

Why on earth would you think that would be the case?

Pasadena will be reserved for one of the following:

1. Conference title game winner with a record too poor to make the playoffs

2. One loss team that doesn't win their division (assuming CG winner does make the playoffs)

3. Undefeated regular season team that gets upset in the CG, knocking them out of the playoffs

And, as noted above, this will only apply 8 out of every 12 years, when the RB isn't a semi-final. In the other years, all bets are off and everything gets thrown out the window.
 



The fact that Kill is starting to bring in sought after recruits from the south is a good sign. Just need to find a competent QB.

Code for "not from Minnesota." Probably should seek out-of-state QBs. Based on how this group treated Weber, Nelson, and now Leidner, I wouldn't consider UM if I were a MN HS QB. Add Hoffarber to that list of viciously maligned locals.
 

I know the schedule is four years from now, but I think those crossover games will still be favorable. Plus the class of 16 will be RS Juniors/ Seniors that year. Too bad we burnt Croft's Red Shirt, but who knows which future qb recruit will be under center at that point. Long ways out, but if Kill keeps recruiting in '17, '18 and '19 like he has for '16, throw in the guys who will be RS seniors from the '15 class and we should have a good team. 2018 when Croft, Brooks, Smith, Still Holland, Gentry and Jones are Seniors. Plus having guys like Howard, Kamal Martin and Drew H from Marshall and hopefully that Snelson kid stays committed. We should be talented and experienced at the skill positions that year. what does the schedule look like in 2018. Every year the conference title will be tough, but it's also possible to back in to the rose bowl if we lose and finish 11-2 and the champ goes to the CFP. Course we might end up in anoter New Years six bowl depending on the rotation
 

Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 said:
Looking at the 2019 schedule, the stars line up pretty solidly for a run.
http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-19/2019-minnesota-golden-gophers-football-schedule.php
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By this logic, shouldn't next year be just about as easy? PSU/WI/Neb/IA flip which games are home/away compared to 2019, but the schedule is the same.

On that note, next year will have a better-than-average non-conference home slate with Oregon St & CSU, but a pretty ho-hum slate of conference games in Iowa, Rutgers, Purdue, and Northwestern. Bleh. Either way, I'd hope that both 2016 and 2019 are years we can make the title game given the schedules missing MSU, OSU, and Mich.
 

There is no way to answer this question. It depends not only on how good we are, but also how good the other teams are. Plus, the Rose Bowl is a CFP semifinal every three years, so we could peak and miss the game anyway on that basis if we're not of CFP caliber or we are and get sent to the Sugar Bowl instead (the Rose Bowl's semfinal counterpart). I just hope it happens because I long ago resigned myself to the probability that we'd never make a Rose Bowl game in my lifetime.
 



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