***It’s not our fault that we had to play Hawaii. We wanted to go to the Rose.***
Sucks, don’t it! But, tradition is more important than truly trying to find the real #1 or giving fans the real interesting match-ups. I haven’t watched the Rose bowl in years. Boring games.
It is telling when general opinion is the best day game Jan 1 isn’t the Rose bowl: its the Gator bowl. And, what a game it was.
Long ago...when I was in college (I believe dinosaurs roamed the earth and there was no cable), I remember it was NBC, etc., that “set” your New Year’s Day.
EVERY network had the Tournament of Roses Parade, of course, but the night before was the Cotton Bowl Parade, correct?
Then I think there were three bowl games - Cotton, then Rose, then Orange, or Cotton, then Orange, then Rose. Can anybody corroborate this? But I know the Sugar Bowl was played - when?
I’d never heard of the other bowl games before, but I’m made to believe they’ve been around - were they pretty much ignored except in the Sports pages?