Today, the Rose Bowl Game is a booming enterprise, entering its 99th year of play.
In 1952, the Rose Bowl Game became the first nationally televised college football game.
The Rose Bowl Game and Rose Parade notably do not have title sponsors.
While the Rose Bowl Game has become one of the most-recognized athletic events, its start was met without much fanfare.
How then, did the Rose Bowl Game go from a community event to one of the biggest events in sports?
One thing is certain though: Even though it went away for 13 years, the Rose Bowl Game is here to stay.
The Rose Bowl game was first televised in 1948, one year after the Tournament of Roses partnered with the Big Ten and Pac-12.
Texas, as course, lost Vince Young, who was their star and leader in the Rose Bowl game, that classic Rose Bowl game, last year.
One area in which the Pac-12 and Big Ten conferences benefit from due to their relationship with the Rose Bowl Game, is broadcasting revenues.
This year, however, given that Wisconsin is playing in its third consecutive Rose Bowl Game, it allocated some of its guarantee tickets to Stanford.
Some believed commentators might even be playing favorites on-air: this January, ESPN reporter Erin Andrews told viewers of the TCU-Wisconsin Rose Bowl game that the TCU players were slipping in their brand new Nike cleats.
Uniting all four games on the one network further suggests that the Rose Bowl is widely viewed as just another BCS bowl game, not a unique rivalry showcase.
FORBES: Leaving The BCS Would Be Suicide For The Big Ten And Pac-12
Oregon locked up its spot in the Rose Bowl by winning the Pac-12 title game Friday night.
England face Ireland on Tuesday, Sri Lanka in a Twenty20 game on Thursday at the Rose Bowl, before next Saturday's first one-dayer at Lord's.
BBC: SPORT | Cricket | Counties | Middlesex | England select Joyce for Stormont
We looked at members of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC because those schools are eligible for an automatic qualification to a Bowl Championship Series bowl game (Fiesta, Orange, Rose, and Sugar Bowls).
Next, assume that it won that game and then went on to the Rose Bowl.
FORBES: Not Self-Imposing a Bowl Ban in 2011 May Have Cost Ohio State Millions
Minister for sport Hugh Robertson and Professional Cricketers' Association chief executive Angus Porter have backed the ECB's decision to finish the series which is tied at 2-2 with one game remaining, at Hampshire's Rose Bowl on Wednesday.
BBC: England demand full apology from PCB chairman Ijaz Butt
The game has currently enjoyed 15 consecutive sellouts, which puts it second for consecutive sellouts behind the Rose Bowl.
FORBES: Tickets, Title Sponsors and TV: How the Chick-fil-A Bowl Became a Bowl Game Powerhouse
Due to the fact that it is not bowl eligible, Ohio State will not participate in the Big Ten championship game, the winner of which will go on to participate as an automatic qualifier in the Rose Bowl.
FORBES: Not Self-Imposing a Bowl Ban in 2011 May Have Cost Ohio State Millions
Klinsmann debuts in a game that is also a rematch of the Gold Cup final in June, when Mexico came back to win a thrilling 4-2 game in front of 90, 000 thousand (mostly pro-Mexican) fans in the Rose Bowl.
应用推荐