Rose Bowl Game

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The Rose Bowl is an annual American college football game, usually played on January 1 (New Year's Day) at the stadium of the same name in Pasadena, California. When New Year's Day falls on a Sunday the game is then played on the following Monday. In 2002 and 2006, the Rose Bowl game was also the BCS National Championship Game.

Background

Sometimes nicknamed The Granddaddy of Them All, the Rose Bowl is the oldest and most prestigious bowl game, and part of the annual Tournament of Roses event. The game was first played in 1902, pitting Michigan against Stanford, but after Michigan's 49-0 win over Stanford, Tournament of Roses officials ran chariot races instead. In 1916 football returned to stay. The Tournament also includes the Tournament of Roses Parade featuring floats covered with flowers and plants. Before the Rose Bowl stadium was built in 1923, games were played in Pasadena's Tournament Park, approximately three miles southeast of the current stadium. For many years the game was televised by NBC in a 1 p.m. PST time slot, the only New Year's bowl airing at that time. Since 1988, it has been broadcast on ABC.

In the game's early years (except during World War I), it always featured a team — not necessarily the conference champion — from the Pacific Coast Conference (ancestor to today's Pacific 10), as well as a team invited from further east. Beginning with the 1947 game, the game's participants were established as the champions of what is now the Big Ten and Pac-10 Conferences. Since 1998, however, with the creation of the Bowl Championship Series system, team selection for the Rose Bowl is now tied into the other three BCS Bowls, although in any given year the Rose Bowl still attempts, if possible, to maintain the traditional Pac-10-Big Ten format. The 2002 game of Nebraska Cornhuskers (Big 12 Conference) and Miami Hurricanes (who were members of the Big East at that time) was the first since 1946 not featuring the traditional pairing. Starting with the 2007 BCS, the stadium hosting the traditional bowl game will also host the new stand-alone BCS National Championship Game one week later, meaning that the next time the Rose Bowl Stadium will host the title game will be on January 8, 2010. While FOX got the rights to the other three games in negotiations with the BCS, ABC retained the rights to the Rose Bowl Game for themselves.

The impact of the BCS on the Rose Bowl matchups has resulted in the initial participation by several teams, even in years when the BCS National Championship Game is not contested there. The 2003 Rose Bowl game featured the first appearance by the Oklahoma Sooners. The 2004 Rose Bowl, between the Michigan Wolverines and USC Trojans resulted in the Trojans winning the 2003 AP National Title, effectively sharing the 2003 National Championship with BCS Champion LSU. The 2005 bowl featured Michigan against the Texas Longhorns, which was selected — amid some controversy — over California Golden Bears, a Pac-10 school, from the final at-large bid. Despite the controversy, this was a milestone for Texas and Michigan as it marked the first meeting between the two teams. It was also the first appearance — and victory — by Texas in the Rose Bowl. The 2006 game, which was played for the national championship, featured offensive powerhouses 2005 Texas Longhorns (in its second straight Rose Bowl appearance and second appearance overall, holding a 19-game winning streak) and USC (attempting to become only the second school to claim three straight national championships and further its 34-game winning streak in its 30th Rose Bowl appearance, the most by any school). Texas won 41-38 on a touchdown in the closing seconds. Several sports analysts soon after the game were naming it among the most exciting championship bowl games, though it is unclear if this distinction will hold over time or is merely a case of proximity. In terms of number of TV viewers, it was the highest-rated college football game since the 1987 Fiesta Bowl between Penn State and Miami.

For years the game bucked tradition by going without a sponsor, but in 1998, the game became known as The Rose Bowl Game presented by AT&T and in 2002 as The Rose Bowl Game presented by PlayStation 2. Since 2003, when the agreement with Sony expired, the game has been presented by citi. The Rose Bowl still spurns the sponsorship tradition to a degree, as the sponsor's name is listed less prominently than in other bowl games. In other bowls, the sponsor's name is listed first and as part of the game's name, rather than merely as the presenter of the game.

Game results

• Years listed below indicate the January game date; for example, the 2003 game was played following the 2002 football season.
• Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 1942 game was moved to Duke University's Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina due to World War II security threats, as officials were wary of allowing such a large crowd to congregate anywhere on the West Coast and risking another Japanese attack.

Italics denote a tie game.
* denotes BCS national championship games
** game played in Durham, NC

Date Played	Winning Team		Losing Team
January 1, 1902	Michigan	49	Stanford	0
January 1, 1916	Washington State	14	Brown	0
January 1, 1917	Oregon	14	Pennsylvania	0
January 1, 1918	Mare Island - USMC	19	Camp Lewis - US Army	7
January 1, 1919	Great Lakes - US Navy	17	Mare Island	0
January 1, 1920	Harvard	7	Oregon	6
January 1, 1921	California	28	Ohio State	0
January 2, 1922	California	0	Washington & Jefferson	0
January 1, 1923	Southern California	14	Penn State	3
January 1, 1924	Washington	14	Navy	14
January 1, 1925	Notre Dame	27	Stanford	10
January 1, 1926	Alabama	20	Washington	19
January 1, 1927	Stanford	7	Alabama	7
January 2, 1928	Stanford	7	Pittsburgh	6
January 1, 1929	Georgia Tech	8	California	7
January 1, 1930	Southern California	47	Pittsburgh	14
January 1, 1931	Alabama	24	Washington State	0
January 1, 1932	Southern California	21	Tulane	12
January 2, 1933	Southern California	35	Pittsburgh	0
January 1, 1934	Columbia	7	Stanford	0
January 1, 1935	Alabama	29	Stanford	13
January 1, 1936	Stanford	7	SMU	0
January 1, 1937	Pittsburgh	21	Washington	0
January 1, 1938	California	13	Alabama	0
January 2, 1939	Southern California	7	Duke	3
January 1, 1940	Southern California	14	Tennessee	0
January 1, 1941	Stanford	21	Nebraska	13
January 1, 1942**	Oregon State	20	Duke	16
January 1, 1943	Georgia	9	UCLA	0
January 1, 1944	Southern California	29	Washington	0
January 1, 1945	Southern California	25	Tennessee	0
January 1, 1946	Alabama	34	Southern California	14
January 1, 1947	Illinois	45	UCLA	14
January 1, 1948	Michigan	49	Southern California	0
January 1, 1949	Northwestern	20	California	14
January 2, 1950	Ohio State	17	California	14
January 1, 1951	Michigan	14	California	6
January 1, 1952	Illinois	40	Stanford	7
January 1, 1953	Southern California	7	Wisconsin	0
January 1, 1954	Michigan State	28	UCLA	20
January 1, 1955	Ohio State	20	Southern California	7
January 2, 1956	Michigan State	17	UCLA	14
January 1, 1957	Iowa	35	Oregon State	19
January 1, 1958	Ohio State	10	Oregon	7
January 1, 1959	Iowa	38	California	12
January 1, 1960	Washington	44	Wisconsin	8
January 2, 1961	Washington	17	Minnesota	7
January 2, 1962	Minnesota	21	UCLA	3
January 1, 1963	Southern California	42	Wisconsin	37
January 1, 1964	Illinois	17	Washington	7
January 1, 1965	Michigan	34	Oregon State	7
January 1, 1966	UCLA	14	Michigan State	12
January 2, 1967	Purdue	14	Southern California	13
January 1, 1968	Southern California	14	Indiana	3
January 1, 1969	Ohio State	27	Southern California	16
January 1, 1970	Southern California	10	Michigan	3
January 1, 1971	Stanford	27	Ohio State	17
January 1, 1972	Stanford	13	Michigan	12
January 1, 1973	Southern California	42	Ohio State	17
January 1, 1974	Ohio State	42	Southern California	21
January 1, 1975	Southern California	18	Ohio State	17
January 1, 1976	UCLA	23	Ohio State	10
January 1, 1977	Southern California	14	Michigan	6
January 2, 1978	Washington	27	Michigan	20
January 1, 1979	Southern California	17	Michigan	10
January 1, 1980	Southern California	17	Ohio State	16
January 1, 1981	Michigan	23	Washington	6
January 1, 1982	Washington	28	Iowa	0
January 1, 1983	UCLA	24	Michigan	14
January 2, 1984	UCLA	45	Illinois	9
January 1, 1985	Southern California	20	Ohio State	17
January 1, 1986	UCLA	45	Iowa	28
January 1, 1987	Arizona State	22	Michigan	15
January 1, 1988	Michigan State	20	Southern California	17
January 2, 1989	Michigan	22	Southern California	14
January 1, 1990	Southern California	17	Michigan	10
January 1, 1991	Washington	46	Iowa	34
January 1, 1992	Washington	34	Michigan	14
January 1, 1993	Michigan	38	Washington	31
January 1, 1994	Wisconsin	21	UCLA	16
January 2, 1995	Penn State	38	Oregon	20
January 1, 1996	Southern California	41	Northwestern	32
January 1, 1997	Ohio State	20	Arizona State	17
January 1, 1998	Michigan	21	Washington State	16
January 1, 1999	Wisconsin	38	UCLA	31
January 1, 2000	Wisconsin	17	Stanford	9
January 1, 2001	Washington	34	Purdue	24
January 3, 2002*	Miami (FL)	37	Nebraska	14
January 1, 2003	Oklahoma	34	Washington State	14
January 1, 2004	Southern California	28	Michigan	14
January 1, 2005	Texas	38	Michigan	37
January 4, 2006*	Texas	41	Southern California	38

Year Played	MVP	Team	Position
1902	Neil Snow	Michigan	FB
1916	Carl Dietz	Washington State	FB
1917	John Beckett	Oregon	T
1918	Hollis Huntington	Mare Island	FB
1919	George Halas	Great Lakes	E
1920	Edward Casey	Harvard	HB
1921	Harold "Brick" Muller	California	E
1922	Russell Stein	Washington & Jefferson	T
1923	Leo Calland	USC	G
1924	Ira McKee	Navy	QB
1925	Elmer Layden	Notre Dame	FB
	Ernie Nevers	Stanford	FB
1926	Johnny Mack Brown	Alabama	HB
	George Wilson	Washington	HB
1927	Fred Pickhard	Alabama	T
1928	Clifford Hoffmann	Stanford	FB
1929	Benjamin Lom	California	HB
1930	Russell Saunders	USC	QB
1931	John "Monk" Campbell	Alabama	QB
1932	Ernie Pinckert	USC	HB
1933	Homer Griffith	USC	QB
1934	Cliff Montgomery	Columbia	QB
1935	Millard "Dixie" Howell	Alabama	HB
1936	James "Monk" Moscrip	Stanford	E
	Keith Toppling	Stanford	E
1937	William Daddio	Pittsburgh	E
1938	Victor Bottari	California	HB
1939	Doyle Nave	USC	QB
	Alvin Krueger	USC	E
1940	Ambrose Schindler	USC	QB
1941	Peter Kmetovic	Stanford	HB
1942	Donald Durdan	Oregon State	HB
1943	Charles Trippi	Georgia	HB
1944	Norman Verry	USC	G
1945	James Hardy	USC	QB
1946	Harry Gilmer	Alabama	HB
1947	Claude "Buddy" Young	Illinois	HB
	Julius Rykovich	Illinois	HB
1948	Robert Chappuis	Michigan	HB
1949	Frank Aschenbrenner	Northwestern	HB
1950	Fred Morrison	Ohio State	FB
1951	Donald Dufek	Michigan	FB
1952	William Tate	Illinois	HB
1953	Rudy Bukich	USC	QB
1954	Billy Wells	Michigan State	HB
1955	Dave Leggett	Ohio State	QB
1956	Walter Kowalczyk	Michigan State	HB
1957	Kenneth Ploen	Iowa	QB
1958	Jack Crabtree	Oregon	QB
1959	Bob Jeter	Iowa	HB
1960	Bob Schloredt	Washington	QB
	George Fleming	Washington	HB
1961	Bob Schloredt	Washington	QB
1962	Sandy Stephens	Minnesota	QB
1963	Pete Beathard	USC	QB
	Ron Vander Kelen	Wisconsin	QB
1964	Jim Grabowski	Illinois	FB
1965	Mel Anthony	Michigan	FB
1966	Bob Stiles	UCLA	DB
1967	John Charles	Purdue	DB
1968	O. J. Simpson	USC	TB
1969	Rex Kern	Ohio State	QB
1970	Bob Chandler	USC	FL
1971	Jim Plunkett	Stanford	QB
1972	Don Bunce	Stanford	QB
1973	Sam Cunnigham	USC	FB
1974	Cornelius Greene	Ohio State	QB
1975	Pat Haden	USC	QB
	John McKay, Jr.	USC	SE
1976	John Sciarra	UCLA	QB
1977	Vince Evans	USC	QB
1978	Warren Moon	Washington	QB
1979	Charles White	USC	TB
	Rick Leach	Michigan	QB
1980	Charles White	USC	TB
1981	Butch Woolfolk	Michigan	RB
1982	Jacque Robinson	Washington	RB
1983	Don Rogers	UCLA	FS
	Tom Ramsey	UCLA	QB
1984	Rick Neuheisel	UCLA	QB
1985	Tim Green	USC	QB
	Jack Del Rio	USC	LB
1986	Eric Ball	UCLA	TB
1987	Jeff Van Raaphorst	Arizona State	QB
1988	Percy Snow	Michigan State	LB
1989	Leroy Hoard	Michigan	FB
1990	Ricky Ervins	USC	TB
1991	Mark Brunell	Washington	QB
1992	Steve Emtman	Washington	DT
	Billy Joe Hobert	Washington	QB
1993	Tyrone Wheatley	Michigan	RB
1994	Brent Moss	Wisconsin	TB
1995	Danny O'Neil	Oregon	QB
	Ki-Jana Carter	Penn State	RB
1996	Keyshawn Johnson	USC	WR
1997	Joe Germaine	Ohio State	QB
1998	Brian Griese	Michigan	QB
1999	Ron Dayne	Wisconsin	RB
2000	Ron Dayne	Wisconsin	RB
2001	Marques Tuiasosopo	Washington	QB
2002	Ken Dorsey	Miami	QB
	Andre Johnson	Miami	WR
2003	Nate Hybl	Oklahoma	QB
2004	Matt Leinart	USC	QB
2005	Vince Young	Texas	QB
2006	Vince Young	Texas	QB

See also

• Great Rose Bowl Hoax
• List of college bowl games
• Rose Parade

External link

• [Rose Bowl Game official site]

 

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