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From 1952 to 1988, [56] the Rose Bowl was televised by NBC at 2 p.m. PST, and in most years was the only New Year's Day bowl airing at that time. The 1956 Rose Bowl has the highest TV rating of all college bowl games, watched by 41.1% of all people in the US with TV sets. [57] The 1962 game was the first college football game broadcast in color.
The 1979 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played in Pasadena, California, on January 1, 1979. It was the 65th Rose Bowl Game . The USC Trojans , champions of the Pacific-10 Conference , defeated the Michigan Wolverines , (co) champions of the Big Ten Conference , 17–10.
For decades, the Rose Bowl hosted the winners of the Big 10 and Pac-12 conferences, often bringing top teams from the Midwest and West Coast to do battle in California.
This was only the second time in the Rose Bowl where the #1 and #2 teams in the AP Poll played and only the third time in a bowl game: the 1963 Rose Bowl was the first and the 1964 Cotton Bowl Classic was the second. It was the 12th time overall that the #1 and #2 team faced each other since the inception of the AP Poll in 1936. [10]
After a 10–7 win with a late field goal at Purdue on November 14, they fell to fifth despite still being undefeated, as Nebraska and Michigan passed them. [9] They earned the Rose Bowl berth on the strength of their 20–9 victory over #4 Michigan in their rivalry game that decided the Big Ten title and rose back to second, behind Texas. [10]
The 1970 Rose Bowl was the 56th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Thursday, January 1. The USC Trojans , champions of the Pacific-8 Conference , defeated the Michigan Wolverines , champions of the Big Ten Conference , 10–3.
The 1973 Rose Bowl was the 59th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Monday, January 1. It matched the undefeated and top-ranked USC Trojans of the Pacific-8 Conference with the #3 Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference .
The 1984 Rose Bowl game, played on Monday, January 2, was the 70th edition.The unranked UCLA Bruins upset the #4 Illinois Fighting Illini by a score of 45–9.. Rick Neuheisel, UCLA quarterback, was named the Player of the Game. [2]