Question for the Get Off My Lawn Old Timers of the Board?
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That's the thing. The midwest teams fill stadiums that are far, far away. You should have gone to any Orange Bowl Nebraska played. The amount of red in the stands was stunning.YellowSnow said:
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.TheRoarOfTheCrowd said: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
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People forget that the Big 10 wasn't an annual part of the Rose Bowl until 1948
From 48 to 58 they dominated
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RaceBannon said:
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
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I'm not sure I agree with that. Back in the day it was huge for both conferences.TheRoarOfTheCrowd said: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
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I saw two Rose Bowl games against Iowa. As was often the case Iowa fans outnumbered Washington fans
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I always thought that the Big 10 team who got to play in the Rose Bowl were heroes to their fans as they got to escape their miserable and pathetic Midwestern lives (and winter weather) for a week of sunshine in LA.
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I've never seen an online discussion about Bowls that's doesn't emphatically put the Rose bowl as the #1 game to play so I don't understand why B10 teams wouldnt care about it especially having the decades of tradition
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I agree it was a big deal to the BIG, the point I was making is from a competitive cash flow standpoint the best way to diminish the Pac12 was to diminish the importance of their primary bowl game ~ the Rose Bowl... The BIG was already going to the other big bowls as well, much more so than the PAC unless it was USC. I'm tying the timeline of the decline in the Pac 12 overall to the decline in the Rose Bowl, maybe just a coincidence but I think the 2 are connected...DerekJohnson said:
I'm not sure I agree with that. Back in the day it was huge for both conferences.TheRoarOfTheCrowd said: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
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Been around a long time and I think that...
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husks would FILL that place with classy af fans, if they could ever get there.RaceBannon said:I saw two Rose Bowl games against Iowa. As was often the case Iowa fans outnumbered Washington fans
Look at Wisconsin in the 90s. Filled the place
