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.

Results

1 JAN 1902	Michigan	49	Stanford	0

1 JAN 1916	Washington State	14	Brown	0
1 JAN 1917	Oregon	14	Pennsylvania	0
1 JAN 1918	Mare Island USMC	19	Camp Lewis Army	7
1 JAN 1919	Great Lakes Naval	17	Mare Island USMC	0
1 JAN 1920	Harvard	7	Oregon	6
1 JAN 1921	California	28	Ohio State	0

2 JAN 1922	California	0	Washington & Jefferson	0
1 JAN 1923	Southern California	14	Penn State	3
1 JAN 1924	Washington	14	Navy	14
1 JAN 1925	Notre Dame	27	Stanford	10
1 JAN 1926	Alabama	20	Washington	19
1 JAN 1927	Alabama	7	Stanford	7
2 JAN 1928	Stanford	7	Pittsburgh	6
1 JAN 1929	Georgia Tech	8	California	7
1 JAN 1930	Southern California	47	Pittsburgh	14
1 JAN 1931	Alabama	24	Washington State	0

1 JAN 1932	Southern California	21	Tulane	12
2 JAN 1933	Southern California	35	Pittsburgh	0
1 JAN 1934	Columbia	7	Stanford	0
1 JAN 1935	Alabama	29	Stanford	13
1 JAN 1936	Stanford	7	Southern Methodist	0
1 JAN 1937	Pittsburgh	21	Washington	0
1 JAN 1938	California	13	Alabama	0
2 JAN 1939	Southern California	7	Duke	3
1 JAN 1940	Southern California	14	Tennessee	0
1 JAN 1941	Stanford	21	Nebraska	13

1 JAN 1942	Oregon State	20	Duke	16
1 JAN 1943	Georgia	9	Cal-Los Angeles	0
1 JAN 1944	Southern California	29	Washington	0
1 JAN 1945	Southern California	25	Tennessee	0
1 JAN 1946	Alabama	34	Southern California	14
1 JAN 1947	Illinois	45	Cal-Los Angeles	14
1 JAN 1948	Michigan	49	Southern California	0
1 JAN 1949	Northwestern	20	California	14
2 JAN 1950	Ohio State	17	California	14
1 JAN 1951	Michigan	14	California	6

1 JAN 1952	Illinois	40	Stanford	7
1 JAN 1953	Southern California	7	Wisconsin	0
1 JAN 1954	Michigan State	28	Cal-Los Angeles	20
1 JAN 1955	Ohio State	20	Southern California	7
2 JAN 1956	Michigan State	17	Cal-Los Angeles	14
1 JAN 1957	Iowa	35	Oregon State	19
1 JAN 1958	Ohio State	10	Oregon	7
1 JAN 1959	Iowa	38	California	12
1 JAN 1960	Washington	44	Wisconsin	8
2 JAN 1961	Washington	17	Minnesota	7

1 JAN 1962	Minnesota	21	Cal-Los Angeles	3
1 JAN 1963	Southern California	42	Wisconsin	37
1 JAN 1964	Illinois	17	Washington	7
1 JAN 1965	Michigan	34	Oregon State	7
1 JAN 1966	Cal-Los Angeles	14	Michigan State	12
2 JAN 1967	Purdue	14	Southern California	13
1 JAN 1968	Southern California	14	Indiana	3
1 JAN 1969	Ohio State	27	Southern California	16
1 JAN 1970	Southern California	10	Michigan	3
1 JAN 1971	Stanford	27	Ohio State	17

1 JAN 1972	Stanford	13	Michigan	12
1 JAN 1973	Southern California	42	Ohio State	17
1 JAN 1974	Ohio State	42	Southern California	21
1 JAN 1975	Southern California	18	Ohio State	17
1 JAN 1976	Cal-Los Angeles	23	Ohio State	10
1 JAN 1977	Southern California	14	Michigan	6
2 JAN 1978	Washington	27	Michigan	20
1 JAN 1979	Southern California	17	Michigan	10
1 JAN 1980	Southern California	17	Ohio State	16
1 JAN 1981	Michigan	23	Washington	6

1 JAN 1982	Washington	28	Iowa	0
1 JAN 1983	Cal-Los Angeles	24	Michigan	14
2 JAN 1984	Cal-Los Angeles	45	Illinois	9
1 JAN 1985	Southern California	20	Ohio State	17
1 JAN 1986	Cal-Los Angeles	45	Iowa	28
1 JAN 1987	Arizona State	22	Michigan	15
1 JAN 1988	Michigan State	20	Southern California	17
2 JAN 1989	Michigan	22	Southern California	14
1 JAN 1990	Southern California	17	Michigan	10
1 JAN 1991	Washington	46	Iowa	34

1 JAN 1992	Washington	34	Michigan	14
1 JAN 1993	Michigan	38	Washington	31
1 JAN 1994	Wisconsin	21	Cal-Los Angeles	16
2 JAN 1995	Penn State	38	Oregon	20
1 JAN 1996	Southern California	41	Northwestern	32
1 JAN 1997	Ohio State	20	Arizona State	17
1 JAN 1998	Michigan	21	Washington State	16
1 JAN 1999	Wisconsin	38	Cal-Los Angeles	31
1 JAN 2000	Wisconsin	17	Stanford	9
1 JAN 2001	Washington	34	Purdue	24

3 JAN 2002‡	Miami (FL)	37	Nebraska	14
1 JAN 2003	Oklahoma	34	Washington State	14
1 JAN 2004	Southern California	28	Michigan	14
1 JAN 2005	Texas	38	Michigan	37
4 JAN 2006‡	Texas	41	Southern California	38
1 JAN 2007	Southern California	32	Michigan	18
1 JAN 2008	Southern California	49	Illinois	17
1 JAN 2009	Southern California	38	Penn State	24
1 JAN 2010	Ohio State	26	Oregon	17
1 JAN 2011	Texas Christian	21	Wisconsin	19

‡ - BCS National Championship Game