Why go to the Rose bowl when you can go to the sugar bowl? Why didn’t the Sugar bowl ask for USC?
The Rose Bowl gets the Pac-10 champion and the Big-10 champ unless one (or both) is invited to the NCG. Only the Rose and the NCG were eligible to have USC or OSU this year.
As someone who grew up a mile from the Rose Bowl (i.e., in paradise), I cannot even begin to understand the presupposition of your question.
That's one of the dumbest questions I've ever seen asked on FR.......and I've seen some real doozies!