Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ekblaw From: ekblaw@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: The Rose Bowl(Grandaddy of them all Message-ID: <13000057@uiucdcs> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 11:34:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.13000057 Posted: Mon Nov 11 11:34:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 07:26:10 EST References: <296@mhuxl.UUCP> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:mhuxl.UUCP:296:uiucdcs:13000057:000:1376 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!ekblaw Nov 11 10:34:00 1985 From what I understand, the Rose Bowl PAC 10 v. Big 10 matchup is more traditionthan anything else. Besides, it is doubtable that it determine the #1 in the next few years anyway, since no PAC 10 team makes it that high in the national rankings anymore. The Rose Bowl is committed to having a PAC 10 play there, just like the Cotton Bowl has a Southwestern Conference team. The Rose Bowl, in an effort to get the best team, takes the PAC 10 champion. Why always play against the Big 10 Champ? As I said, tradition. For nearly all of the Rose Bowl games (dating back to 1902), it has been the PAC 10/Big 10 matchup. Tradition IS very hard to break, after all. By the way, it is called the granddaddy not for its prestige (though I hope it still has some) but for its age. It is the oldest annual college bowl game still being played, as this season's will mark its 72nd consecutive year (it has skipped a few since 1902). That is 20 years (exactly!) more than its nearest competitors (Sugar Bowl is one, I think te Orange or Cotton is the other at 52 this year. I forgot which one). Being the oldest, it earned its mark of distinction (of age?). With all the new and recent bowl additions, though, it may be more than two generations old. Should we start calling it the great-granddaddy, and give the granddaddy title to the 52-year old bowls? Robert A. Ekblaw