Rose Bowl Game Will No Longer Be A College Football Playoff Semifinal

Without doubt the Rose Bowl Game is one of college football biggest attraction. The name ‘The Granddaddy of Them All’, applies to it as a New Year tradition and also it frequently features in National Championship games and a list of awe inspiring events.

But the massive wave of realignment sweeping over college football has gutted part of what used to make the Rose Bowl game special: the more historical, and characteristic clash between the Big Ten and the Pac-12. Since the REALignment, along with the Pac-12 Conference, the Rose Bowl has joined the Playoff Semifinal rotation . A change, indeed; however, it kind of preserves the game in the eyes of college football fans as one of the central forces.

Well, that is about to change; at least to some extent.

Thus, the Rose Bowl game wants to be excluded from the list of semifinal bowls that is attracting so much attention.

Controlling for changes to the postseason after this year will be Shape and size of the new College Football Playoff Barring ‘play-ins’ from the regular season each year, the expansion of the College Football Playoff is requiring adjustments to post season plans in the coming years. The first round taken in the season begins in the last week of December and the first week of January, quarterfinals are around New Years and the semifinals only in the second week of January.

That put pressure on the Rose Bowl game authorities whether to maintain the scheduled game on New Year’s Day or remain in the semifinals category. But as a new report has it, this has become the favorite day of the week they want to arrange their weddings on.

The committee responsible for Rose Bowl management, Laura Farber, speaking to The Athletic, affirmed the committee’s bias toward one tradition. ”We prefer to have a game on Jan. 1,” Farber said.

The College Football Playoff organizers have not disclosed whether they will agree to the request of the Rose Bowl game organizers or not but going by the norms I do not think they have any other option as much as I hate to admit that. Taking the Rose Bowl away from the playoff picture would be unfair to the fans and more importantly the players, and to take away one of the ever sure-shot highly rated television broadcasts across the country.

While the Rose Bowl is expected to continue being a quarterfinal game, it still remains a very unpleasant and discouraging example of the tendencies observed in today’s college football. The National Championship game will now be played at some boring NFL stadium that does not have the character that some of the older stadiums possess. Yes, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, AT&T Stadium, or So-Fi Stadium are modern structures with technology and no weather impacts and hundreds of club seats for the sponsors.

But more often than not they have no character. The Rose Bowl does. It is a small stadium but has been there for many years so plays in a beautiful outdoor environment which is somehow special. It is instantly identifiable, dates back further than nearly any other domestic venue, and improves the live spectator’s view. Staying a quarter final is something to content with, but the Rose Bowl should be a part of the championship turn.

Of course, the amputation of the playoffs comes with an effect and one of it is that the Rose Bowl game is not as crucial as it used to be. Sure there is a lot of strengths that come with a twelve playoff team, but as antecedently mentioned, this isn’t one of them.