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For the record, Alabama v. Texas is not the Rose Bowl. It is the BCS Championship Game, which is played in the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl game is Ohio State v. Oregon.
this is one game where I dont feel strongly about a winner, I want both teams to win for different reasons, now if Texas was playing Florida, I would instantly root for TX, but Alabama really deserves this title and so does TX but I picked TX on my bowl picks.
For the record, Alabama v. Texas is not the Rose Bowl. It is the BCS Championship Game, which is played in the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl game is Ohio State v. Oregon.
good catch on your part
why couldn't they've done this in years past, RB is always new year's day and nat. champ. is like about a week later. If i'm remembering correctly the last time they had the national champ. game in the rose bowl it was the rose bowl. Wasn't it the Texas-Vince Young game????
why couldn't they've done this in years past, RB is always new year's day and nat. champ. is like about a week later. If i'm remembering correctly the last time they had the national champ. game in the rose bowl it was the rose bowl. Wasn't it the Texas-Vince Young game????
Good catch, yes that was the last year that the BCS consisted of only the 4 major bowls (Fiesta, Orange, Sugar and Rose). Up until that point, the BCS Championship game would rotate within one of the actual BCS bowl games. They added the BCS Championship game the next year and it has rotated at the same location as one of BCS Bowls.
I think it has alot to do with teams other than the Big10 and Pac10 playing in the actual Rose Bowl game on Jan 1st. (OU, Texas, Miami, NU)
The rest of the bowls didn't really care who played.
Good catch, yes that was the last year that the BCS consisted of only the 4 major bowls (Fiesta, Orange, Sugar and Rose). Up until that point, the BCS Championship game would rotate within one of the actual BCS bowl games. They added the BCS Championship game the next year and it has rotated at the same location as one of BCS Bowls.
I think it has alot to do with teams other than the Big10 and Pac10 playing in the actual Rose Bowl game on Jan 1st. (OU, Texas, Miami, NU)
The rest of the bowls didn't really care who played.
yeah,the rose bowl is very tradition minded. I kind of like that.
gy2020-Good stats! The one thing I recall (I'm ancient) is that head coach from Texas wasn't going up against some schlub in the bowl games from the 60's. He was going against Alabama head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. The last time they met each other in the early '80's I believe different head coaches headed those programs in the early '80's, I know Bryant had retired anyway.
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