Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 2, 1956 The Michigan State Spartans return to Rose Bowl Friday for the second time in three weeks, while we also celebrate the most dominant stretch of college football in the sport’s history. By our…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1955 Our Rose Bowl Friday weekly visit is back to look at the 1954 regular season, where the Ohio State Buckeyes went a perfect 10-0 to win the mythical national championship. We know this takes away mu…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1954 The Western Conference added a tenth member (again) to informally be known as the B1G once again, as reflected this week’s Rose Bowl Friday column. The University of Chicago had pulled out fu…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1953 Our Rose Bowl Friday gets some fresh items this week, as one participating team in the Granddaddy of Them All was making its first-ever bowl game appearance … against one of the established p…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1952 If it’s the end of the week, it must be Rose Bowl Friday time! We return to the miniseries that looks at the Granddaddy of Them All with another matchup between the future B1G and the future …

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1951 On Rose Bowl Friday this last day of February 2025, we take on a matchup of two teams wearing blue and gold, of some shade/tint. This was the fifth year of the Western and Pacific Coast conferences…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 2, 1950 This Rose Bowl Friday entry moves us forward into the 1950s, sort of, as the culmination of the 1949 regular season was held early in 1950. There was little impact on the mythical national champion…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1949 Rose Bowl Friday pushes forward to the 1948 regular season, which featured a mythical national champion who could not play in the Granddaddy of Them All due to silly, no-repeat rules at the time. N…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1948 We are in the final Rose Bowl Friday miniseries stretch now, continuing through the 1955 regular season (and the 1956 Granddaddy of Them All). This was a controversial year in college football hist…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1947 Our Rose Bowl Friday miniseries begins its final push with the initial years of the “traditional” agreement for the Granddaddy of Them All: the B1G versus the Pac-12 (or their ancestors…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1946 We reach a landmark (or two?) today on Rose Bowl Friday: the first Granddaddy of Them All loss for the USC Trojans ever—and the last Pasadena matchup for a long time that wasn’t the now-known…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1945 For Rose Bowl Friday today, we have our last wartime Granddaddy of Them All, and in this situation, the University of Tennessee made its second appearance in Pasadena, earning a rematch with the US…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1944 Today’s Rose Bowl Friday is a unique one (again) in that wartime challenges limited cross-country travel, so two Best Coast teams faced off against each other in the Granddaddy of Them All: t…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1943 Our first Rose Bowl Friday of the new calendar year brings along World War II progress, as the University of Georgia made its Granddaddy of Them All debut, playing against the UCLA Bruins—also maki…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1942 This Rose Bowl Friday is quite unique, as we examine the only time the Granddaddy of Them All was not played in Pasadena. Staged just 24 days after Pearl Harbor, the game was moved from the West Co…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1941 Our Rose Bowl Friday miniseries continues with a look at the culmination of the 1940 regular season. And this time, the “Champion of the East” actually just was from the Midwest: Nebras…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1940 The memories we explore on Rose Bowl Friday are significant since college football as we once knew it is dead, for better or for worse. This season, for example, the Granddaddy of Them All is merel…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 2, 1939 Rose Bowl Friday always makes us both happy and sad: the former because we grew up with the tradition that was so great in the 1970s and the 1980s; the latter because college football is now just a…

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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1938 We give thanks on this Rose Bowl Friday for the Alabama Crimson Tide’s first loss in the Granddaddy of Them All. The Red Menace from the Confederacy had been 3-0-1 before rolling into Souther…

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