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
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
