The Rose Bowl will be a CFP semifinal next season, before acting as a CFP quarterfinal when the event expands to 12 teams in 2024. So in that sense, Utah_Football and PennStateFball will play in the last 'real' Rose Bowl.
The Rose Bowl will be a CFP semifinal next season, before acting as a CFP quarterfinal when the event expands to 12 teams in 2024
The fact Jan. 2 is the last traditional Rose Bowl, and that change is coming, is not lost on the participants. “It was huge,” Whittingham said. “When you grow up in the shadows of the Rose Bowl like I did, the Rose Parade and all the pageantry that comes with it, watching the Pac-12 and Big Ten go at it every single year, it was a really big deal.”
The 2006 Rose Bowl, played on Jan. 4, served as the iconic national championship game between Vince Young-led Texas and USC, a game which Ventura, Calif. native Cam Rising has referenced multiple times as one of his great early football memories from his childhood. As expansion before the end of the 12-year deal became a realistic possibility, all of the New Year’s Six bowls had to get on board, which meant the Rose Bowl, embedded in tradition, if not stubbornness, had a decision to make.Utah All-American cornerback Clark Phillips III grew up in a football-centric household, so staying in line with that, his family had a specific Christmastime tradition.
As CFP expansion ahead of the end of the contract was agreed upon in principle by the CFP Board of Managers, the Rose Bowl acquiescing was reportedly the big holdup. It demanded that the game remain in the traditional day and time slot, going as far as reportedly proposing to host CFP quarterfinals in 2024 and 2025 in exchange for keeping its day time slot as part of the CFP’s new media rights contract starting in 2026.
“There is something to be said for that, playing in a traditional Rose Bowl, and we’re honored to be able to do that,” Whittingham said. “Going forward, it’ll never be the same, so it’s something we’re proud and honored to be a part of.”
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