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Rose Bowl Tickets Information
When it comes to Bowl Games, the Rose Bowl is considered “The Granddaddy of Them All”, being the oldest and most consistently prestigious of the lot. The Rose Bowl will host the competition between the season’s Big Ten and Pac Ten champions.
The Rose Bowl is part of the larger Bowl Championship Series, which pits the best of the season’s football teams from all of the major NCAA Division 1-A conferences, those being: Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, Pac-10, Southeastern, Sun Belt, and the Western Athletic, along with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish – all to determine which team is this year’s college football champion. That ultimate determination happens at the BCS National Championship Game. Besides the Rose Bowl, the other Bowl Games leading up to the BCS Title Game are the Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and Orange Bowl.
The Rose Bowl is a part of the larger annual event, the Tournament of Roses, which also boasts the coveted Tournament of Roses Parade. It started on January 1, 1902 as the “Tournament East-West Football Game” when the Michigan Wolverines destroyed the Stanford University team. For the ensuing 14 years, the Tournament of Roses featured everything but football – from chariot races to ostrich races – until 1916 when football resumed, and remained to stay.
After that, the only time the Rose Bowl wasn’t played at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena was in 1942 when the U.S. government worried over security concerns on the West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor that led to the U.S. entry into World War II. For that historical year, the Rose Bowl was hosted by Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
In the 2009 Rose Bowl, the USC Trojans defeated the Penn State Nittany Lions, 38-24. USC holds the record for the most Rose Bowl appearances, at 33. Alabama holds the record for the most Rose Bowl appearances from a team outside the Pac-10 or Big 10. USC vs. Michigan has been the most frequent match-up, with USC also carrying the record for the most number of Rose Bowl wins (at 24), while Michigan holds the number 2 spot, with 8.
As in almost every year before (but for when New Year’s Day falls on a Sunday), the Rose Bowl will be played on January 1, at the Rose Bowl Arena in Pasadena, California. The Rose Bowl Arena, an outdoor arena near Los Angeles, is home to the Pac-10’s UCLA Bruins and has over a 90,000-person seating capacity.
Formerly sponsored by AT&T and Sony PlayStation 2, respectively, this year’s Rose Bowl will be presented by Citi, and broadcast, unlike all the rest of the Bowl Championship Series Bowl Games, on ABC. But who wants to watch the Rose Bowl on TV when you can catch all the action in person? To be there for it all, get your Rose Bowl tickets here and now.
