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YellowSnow
YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
edited July 2023 in Hardcore Husky Board
Was it the Big 10 that primarily drove the decision to surrender the Rose Bowl and join the BCS in 1998 or was it a mutual thing where the Pac 10 was in complete agreement?
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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,422 Founders Club
    It's gonna be awesome when the Rose bowl features two SEC teams every year.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
    haie said:

    It's gonna be awesome when the Rose bowl features two SEC teams every year.

    The reason I ask is because I feel like this was a Big 10 driven thing after Pedo State went 12-0 and got shut out of the Natty back in 1994.

    The Big 10 fucking owes now, since it was the surrendering of the Rose Bowl to the BCS that led to this current cluster fuck.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,278

    Probably the Big 10

    Ucla was going to the BCS though until a hurricane make up game at Miami in November. That was a bad Cane team too although building towards 00 to 02

    Beware make up games in Miami in November

    300 yds. rushing by some kid named Edge. 300 yards rushing on the ground by one player = exposed.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club

    Probably the Big 10

    Ucla was going to the BCS though until a hurricane make up game at Miami in November. That was a bad Cane team too although building towards 00 to 02

    Beware make up games in Miami in November

    Thanks a lot Bin Laden.
  • EwaDawg
    EwaDawg Member Posts: 4,377
    What I remember is that the P12 drug its feet and was much less accepting of the BCS (than the B1G) to the point that the powers that be threatened to do it without the Rose Bowel and its affiliated conferences.

    Surprised no one else remembers it that way (or not).
  • DawgOfTheAges
    DawgOfTheAges Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,797 Founders Club
    The Big has never felt that the Rose Bowl was “their bowl”… it’s in LA so it was always the Pac12’s private bowl and the BIG was fine with de-emphasizing the Rose at the expense of the Pac-12 whom they have always been at war with and have now conquered. Game, set, match
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club

    The Big has never felt that the Rose Bowl was “their bowl”… it’s in LA so it was always the Pac12’s private bowl and the BIG was fine with de-emphasizing the Rose at the expense of the Pac-12 whom they have always been at war with and have now conquered. Game, set, match

    Such silly logic by those guys. Sure the Pac had some home field advantage in the Rose Bowl, but there was never gonna be a mid west bowl on New Year's Day. And it's not like Ohio St, Michingan, Iowa, etc didn't travel in droves to Pasadena.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,278

    The Big has never felt that the Rose Bowl was “their bowl”… it’s in LA so it was always the Pac12’s private bowl and the BIG was fine with de-emphasizing the Rose at the expense of the Pac-12 whom they have always been at war with and have now conquered. Game, set, match

    I grew up wondering of those fuckers ever planned on a winning a Rose Bowl and then popping off. I swear, I thought it was an annual rite of passage for some P10 team to win that bowl game. Schembechler or however you spell it was HORRIBLE in January. JFC.