Rose Bowl
The Rose Bowl is a major bowl game held in Pasadena, California in 1902, and again continuously since 1916. The game began at Tournament Park in Pasadena, where it remained until the 1923 game, which was played in the newly-constructed Rose Bowl stadium. It has been held there ever since, with one exception; in 1942, due to fears of Japanese attacks, Oregon State was invited to contest the game was at Duke Stadium in Durham, North Carolina, in order to forestall its cancellation.
Originally, the game pitted the "western champion" (always a team from the Pacific Coast Conference, which would later become the Pacific 8 Conference, but not necessarily its champion) versus a team from the east, with an occasional exception when two western schools would fight it out. For two years during World War I, the game was contested between military teams. Beginning in 1947, the game began annually matching the Pac-8 champion against a team from the Big Ten Conference. This was usually, but not always, the Big Ten champion, as the Big Ten had a rule that a team could not go to the Rose Bowl in consecutive years. (The Pac-8 had a similar rule, briefly, in the 1950s, but it had clearly gone by the wayside by 1961.) Additionally, until 1975, neither conference allowed any team but the Rose Bowl participant to play in any other bowl game, in the thinking that doing so would erode the prestige of "The Granddaddy of Them All". Finally, in 1973 the Big Ten relaxed their rule regarding non-consecutive appearances, and thus from 1973 until 2001 the game matched the champions of the two conferences. Now it more often doesn't, both because the Rose served as the BCS title game in 2002 and 2006, and because either the Pac-10 or Big Ten champion has been obligated to play elsewhere for the same purpose in other years. Now that the BCS title game is a separate affair, if neither conference is slated to appear in that game the traditional meeting will take place.
In 2014, the BCS system was retired in favor of the new College Football Playoff; for the Rose Bowl, little changes except the frequency with which the bowl hosts teams other than the Big 10 and Pac 12 champions; the Rose will host a semifinal every three years, and may lose one of its champions to another bowl the other years.
Results
| 01 JAN 1902 | Michigan | 49 | Stanford | 0 | |
| (1902-1914 seasons, no game) | |||||
| 01 JAN 1916 | Washington State | 14 | Brown | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1917 | Oregon | 14 | Pennsylvania | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1918 | Mare Island USMC | 19 | Camp Lewis Army | 7 | |
| 01 JAN 1919 | Great Lakes Naval | 17 | Mare Island USMC | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1920 | Harvard | 7 | Oregon | 6 | |
| 01 JAN 1921 | California | 28 | Ohio State | 0 | |
| 02 JAN 1922 | California | 0 | Washington & Jefferson | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1923 | Southern California | 14 | Penn State | 3 | |
| 01 JAN 1924 | Washington | 14 | Navy | 14 | |
| 01 JAN 1925 | Notre Dame | 27 | Stanford | 10 | |
| 01 JAN 1926 | Alabama | 20 | Washington | 19 | |
| 01 JAN 1927 | Alabama | 7 | Stanford | 7 | |
| 02 JAN 1928 | Stanford | 7 | Pittsburgh | 6 | |
| 01 JAN 1929 | Georgia Tech | 8 | California | 7 | |
| 01 JAN 1930 | Southern California | 47 | Pittsburgh | 14 | |
| 01 JAN 1931 | Alabama | 24 | Washington State | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1932 | Southern California | 21 | Tulane | 12 | |
| 02 JAN 1933 | Southern California | 35 | Pittsburgh | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1934 | Columbia | 7 | Stanford | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1935 | Alabama | 29 | Stanford | 13 | |
| 01 JAN 1936 | Stanford | 7 | Southern Methodist | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1937 | Pittsburgh | 21 | Washington | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1938 | California | 13 | Alabama | 0 | |
| 02 JAN 1939 | Southern California | 7 | Duke | 3 | |
| 01 JAN 1940 | Southern California | 14 | Tennessee | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1941 | Stanford | 21 | Nebraska | 13 | |
| 01 JAN 1942^ | Oregon State | 20 | Duke | 16 | |
| 01 JAN 1943 | Georgia | 9 | Cal-Los Angeles | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1944 | Southern California | 29 | Washington | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1945 | Southern California | 25 | Tennessee | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1946 | Alabama | 34 | Southern California | 14 | |
| 01 JAN 1947 | Illinois | 45 | Cal-Los Angeles | 14 | |
| 01 JAN 1948 | Michigan | 49 | Southern California | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1949 | Northwestern | 20 | California | 14 | |
| 02 JAN 1950 | Ohio State | 17 | California | 14 | |
| 01 JAN 1951 | Michigan | 14 | California | 6 | |
| 01 JAN 1952 | Illinois | 40 | Stanford | 7 | |
| 01 JAN 1953 | Southern California | 7 | Wisconsin | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1954 | Michigan State | 28 | Cal-Los Angeles | 20 | |
| 01 JAN 1955 | Ohio State | 20 | Southern California | 7 | |
| 02 JAN 1956 | Michigan State | 17 | Cal-Los Angeles | 14 | |
| 01 JAN 1957 | Iowa | 35 | Oregon State | 19 | |
| 01 JAN 1958 | Ohio State | 10 | Oregon | 7 | |
| 01 JAN 1959 | Iowa | 38 | California | 12 | |
| 01 JAN 1960 | Washington | 44 | Wisconsin | 8 | |
| 02 JAN 1961 | Washington | 17 | Minnesota | 7 | |
| 01 JAN 1962 | Minnesota | 21 | Cal-Los Angeles | 3 | |
| 01 JAN 1963 | Southern California | 42 | Wisconsin | 37 | |
| 01 JAN 1964 | Illinois | 17 | Washington | 7 | |
| 01 JAN 1965 | Michigan | 34 | Oregon State | 7 | |
| 01 JAN 1966 | Cal-Los Angeles | 14 | Michigan State | 12 | |
| 02 JAN 1967 | Purdue | 14 | Southern California | 13 | |
| 01 JAN 1968 | Southern California | 14 | Indiana | 3 | |
| 01 JAN 1969 | Ohio State | 27 | Southern California | 16 | |
| 01 JAN 1970 | Southern California | 10 | Michigan | 3 | |
| 01 JAN 1971 | Stanford | 27 | Ohio State | 17 | |
| 01 JAN 1972 | Stanford | 13 | Michigan | 12 | |
| 01 JAN 1973 | Southern California | 42 | Ohio State | 17 | |
| 01 JAN 1974 | Ohio State | 42 | Southern California | 21 | |
| 01 JAN 1975 | Southern California | 18 | Ohio State | 17 | |
| 01 JAN 1976 | Cal-Los Angeles | 23 | Ohio State | 10 | |
| 01 JAN 1977 | Southern California | 14 | Michigan | 6 | |
| 02 JAN 1978 | Washington | 27 | Michigan | 20 | |
| 01 JAN 1979 | Southern California | 17 | Michigan | 10 | |
| 01 JAN 1980 | Southern California | 17 | Ohio State | 16 | |
| 01 JAN 1981 | Michigan | 23 | Washington | 6 | |
| 01 JAN 1982 | Washington | 28 | Iowa | 0 | |
| 01 JAN 1983 | Cal-Los Angeles | 24 | Michigan | 14 | |
| 02 JAN 1984 | Cal-Los Angeles | 45 | Illinois | 9 | |
| 01 JAN 1985 | Southern California | 20 | Ohio State | 17 | |
| 01 JAN 1986 | Cal-Los Angeles | 45 | Iowa | 28 | |
| 01 JAN 1987 | Arizona State | 22 | Michigan | 15 | |
| 01 JAN 1988 | Michigan State | 20 | Southern California | 17 | |
| 02 JAN 1989 | Michigan | 22 | Southern California | 14 | |
| 01 JAN 1990 | Southern California | 17 | Michigan | 10 | |
| 01 JAN 1991 | Washington | 46 | Iowa | 34 | |
| 01 JAN 1992 | Washington | 34 | Michigan | 14 | |
| 01 JAN 1993 | Michigan | 38 | Washington | 31 | |
| 01 JAN 1994 | Wisconsin | 21 | Cal-Los Angeles | 16 | |
| 02 JAN 1995 | Penn State | 38 | Oregon | 20 | |
| 01 JAN 1996 | Southern California | 41 | Northwestern | 32 | |
| 01 JAN 1997 | Ohio State | 20 | Arizona State | 17 | |
| 01 JAN 1998 | Michigan | 21 | Washington State | 16 | |
| 01 JAN 1999 | Wisconsin | 38 | Cal-Los Angeles | 31 | |
| 01 JAN 2000 | Wisconsin | 17 | Stanford | 9 | |
| 01 JAN 2001 | Washington | 34 | Purdue | 24 | |
| 03 JAN 2002‡ | Miami (FL) | 37 | Nebraska | 14 | |
| 01 JAN 2003 | Oklahoma | 34 | Washington State | 14 | |
| 01 JAN 2004 | Southern California | 28 | Michigan | 14 | |
| 01 JAN 2005 | Texas | 38 | Michigan | 37 | |
| 04 JAN 2006‡ | Texas | 41 | Southern California | 38 | |
| 01 JAN 2007 | Southern California | 32 | Michigan | 18 | |
| 01 JAN 2008 | Southern California | 49 | Illinois | 17 | |
| 01 JAN 2009 | Southern California | 38 | Penn State | 24 | |
| 01 JAN 2010 | Ohio State | 26 | Oregon | 17 | |
| 01 JAN 2011 | Texas Christian | 21 | Wisconsin | 19 | |
| 02 JAN 2012 | Oregon | 45 | Wisconsin | 38 | |
| 01 JAN 2013 | Stanford | 20 | Wisconsin | 14 | |
| 01 JAN 2014 | Michigan State | 24 | Stanford | 20 | |
| 01 JAN 2015 | Oregon | 59 | Florida State | 20 | |
^ - Game played at Durham NC
‡ - BCS National Championship Game
