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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: The Rose Bowl(Grandaddy of them all
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Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 23:57:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 15 23:57:07 1985
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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.  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.

This is incorrect.  The Rose Bowl is automatically between the Big 10 and
Pac 10 champions.  This has been true since (I believe) 1945; except that
before sometime in the late sixties and early seventies, teams could not
repeat (at least from the Big 10), so if the same team won its league
twice running, the second place team would go instead.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108