Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxl.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxf!mhuxi!mhuxl!jmd
From: jmd@mhuxl.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: The Rose Bowl(Grandaddy of them all?)
Message-ID: <296@mhuxl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 10:05:57 EST
Article-I.D.: mhuxl.296
Posted: Fri Nov  8 10:05:57 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:20:06 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
Lines: 18

With all of the Big 10 vs Pac 10 articles on the net, I figure someone
could answer these questions for me.  Why is the Rose Bowl locked in to 
inviting the Big 10 and Pac 10 champions?  If some written contract was
agreed upon between the two conferences and the bowl commitee, how long
does it last?

The Rose Bowl is always touted as the Grandaddy of them all.  Big whoop!
That might have been something special back in the 70's when USC and 
Ohio St. or Michigan had their annual matchup to decide the national
championship but, the past few years the game hasn't meant anything 
except to determine which conference champ is better (No insults intended
to the Big 10 or Pac 10).  Why doesn't the Rose Bowl go for the two best
teams they can get and have their game settle the question of who is #1?

						Joe Dakes
						AT&T Bell Laboratories
						Reading, PA
						mhuxl!jmd