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From: abbajay@oracle.UUCP (Dave Abbajay)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: The Rose Bowl(Grandaddy of them all
Message-ID: <142@oracle.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 11:48:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 11:48:02 1985
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Summary: Also a little thing called a "contract"

In article <13000057@uiucdcs>, ekblaw@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
> 
> From what I understand, the Rose Bowl PAC 10 v. Big 10 matchup is more
> traditionthan anything else.  ....
> ... Why always play against the Big 10 Champ?  As I said, tradition.

The Rose Bowl committee has a contract with both the PAC-10 and the BIG-10
through, I believe, 1990. After that, we may see a change. Yes tradition
IS a big part of it, but so is contract legalities, money, TV rights, etc.
The Rose Bowl is usually the highest rated game in the Nielsens,
next to the Super Bowl, on the average (obviously depends on the matchups).
-- 
Dave Abbajay
Senior Technical Staff
ORACLE Corporation
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