“It’s because the Big Ten and the Pac-10 have the Rose Bowl, which is the best. It has aura that no other bowl has.”
It has an “aura” to “big” 10 and Pac 10 people. The rest of the world could give a crap. It was that vaunted “tradition” that gave us the glorious spectacle of 90% of the country turning off the game at halftime due to a “big” 10 team not deserving to be there getting blown the hell out. Ditto for the Sugar bowl. Screw the fans wanting to see the best game (UGA vs USC). Who needs interesting stuff like that? We all want outdated tradition and “aura”...right?
Wonder if the Cotton Bowl will be included in the BCS after they start playing in the new Texas stadium in Dallas?
I'm not so sure about that. You might recall LSU fans buying 41,000 Rose Bowl tickets a couple years back just on the possibility that it might be going. The Rose Bowl is the oldest and grandest. It's a spectacle unto itself. It has cache that the others don't--that's just all there is to it. Everyone knows what the Rose Bowl is, even your 90 year old grandmother. There are a lot of other people that couldn't name a single other bowl game.
Screw the fans wanting to see the best game (UGA vs USC).
This wasn't an option for the Rose Bowl. In order for the Rose Bowl to have gotten Georgia, the Sugar Bowl would have had to "given" Georgia (as the highest-ranked SEC team not going to the national title game) to the Rose Bowl. Why would it do that?