The last time the football champions of the Big Ten and Pac-12 met in a bowl game with the winner guaranteed to take home a crystal football (and, now, a gaudy football-shaped trophy as well) was... never?
Since the BCS came into being in the 1998 season... not until now.
- Julian
The 1969 Rose Bowl (for the 1968 season) featured #1 Ohio State vs. #2 USC.
- Julian
Julian: But the Pac-12 didn't exist in 1969. It was the Pac-8 back then.
- walt crawford
I don't know who anyone in the Southeast is supposed to root for.
- LB ❤s FF, esp. YOU
<trash talk> Well maybe if the Southeast produced better football teams they would have somebody to root for. </trash talk> <ducks and runs away> I jest!
- Brian Johns
Does espn like this matchup or not? Will the rating dip without an sec team? I would bet more of the NE US will root for THE ohio state university now, so rating may go up there?
- Joe
Is it too early to talk about how much better this would be if there were 8 teams in the payofffs instead of 4?
- Brian Johns
This would take up 6 bowls. The bowl organizers would like that, but the schools may not like their students out for so long.
- Joe
Were this 25 years ago, we would have had a split "national champion" in the polls -- and some excellent January 1 bowl games (so long as the SWC champion was not once again on probation).
- Julian
Ohio State would have played Oregon... but in the Rose Bowl. Alabama would have played against independent Florida State in the Sugar. Might have seen TCU in the Cotton against... probably Michigan State. Kansas State vs. Georgia Tech in a somewhat unheralded Orange Bowl.
- Julian