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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1940
The memories we explore on Rose Bowl Friday are significant since college football as we once knew it is dead, for better or for worse. This season, for example, the Granddaddy of Them All is merel…
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December 13, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1952 dailymcplay.com/2025/03/07/r... #NCAAHistory #CollegeFootball #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #BillTate #IllinoisFightingIllini #StanfordIndians #Pasadena #TheGranddaddyofThemAll
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1952
If it’s the end of the week, it must be Rose Bowl Friday time! We return to the miniseries that looks at the Granddaddy of Them All with another matchup between the future B1G and the future …
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March 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 2, 1956 dailymcplay.com/2025/04/04/r... #RoseBowl #NCAAHistory #NCAA #RoseBowlHistory #CollegeFootball #MichiganStateSpartans #UCLABruins #MythicalNationalChampions #Sabermetrics
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 2, 1956
The Michigan State Spartans return to Rose Bowl Friday for the second time in three weeks, while we also celebrate the most dominant stretch of college football in the sport’s history. By our…
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April 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1955 dailymcplay.com/2025/03/28/r... #RoseBowl #NCAAHistory #NCAA #RoseBowlHistory #CollegeFootball #OhioStateBuckeyes #USCTrojans #MythicalNationalChampions #Sabermetrics #WoodyHayes
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1955
Our Rose Bowl Friday weekly visit is back to look at the 1954 regular season, where the Ohio State Buckeyes went a perfect 10-0 to win the mythical national championship. We know this takes away mu…
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April 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1954 dailymcplay.com/2025/03/21/r... #NCAAHistory #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #CollegeFootball #MichiganStateSpartans #UCLABruins #MythicalNationalChampions #BiggieMunn #BillyWells
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1954
The Western Conference added a tenth member (again) to informally be known as the B1G once again, as reflected this week’s Rose Bowl Friday column. The University of Chicago had pulled out fu…
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March 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1953 dailymcplay.com/2025/03/14/r... #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #NCAA #CollegeFootball #USCTrojans #WisconsinBadgers #AlanAmeche
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1953
Our Rose Bowl Friday gets some fresh items this week, as one participating team in the Granddaddy of Them All was making its first-ever bowl game appearance … against one of the established p…
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March 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1951
On Rose Bowl Friday this last day of February 2025, we take on a matchup of two teams wearing blue and gold, of some shade/tint. This was the fifth year of the Western and Pacific Coast conferences…
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February 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 2, 1950 dailymcplay.com/2025/02/21/r... #CollegeFootball #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #NCAAFootball #NCAAHistory #OhioStateBuckeyes #CaliforniaGoldenBears
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 2, 1950
This Rose Bowl Friday entry moves us forward into the 1950s, sort of, as the culmination of the 1949 regular season was held early in 1950. There was little impact on the mythical national champion…
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February 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1949 dailymcplay.com/2025/02/14/r... #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #1949RoseBowl #NorthwesternWildcats #CaliforniaGoldenBears #CalBears #Northwestern
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1949
Rose Bowl Friday pushes forward to the 1948 regular season, which featured a mythical national champion who could not play in the Granddaddy of Them All due to silly, no-repeat rules at the time. N…
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February 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1948 dailymcplay.com/2025/02/07/r... #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #CollegeFootball #MythicalNationalChampionship #JackWeisenburger #MichiganWolverines #NotreDameFightingIrish #USCTrojans #AssociatedPress #AssociatedPressFootballPoll #APPoll
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1948
We are in the final Rose Bowl Friday miniseries stretch now, continuing through the 1955 regular season (and the 1956 Granddaddy of Them All). This was a controversial year in college football hist…
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February 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1947 dailymcplay.com/2025/01/31/r... #NCAAHistory #CollegeFootball #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #IllinoisFightingIllini #UCLABruins #Sabermetrics
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1947
Our Rose Bowl Friday miniseries begins its final push with the initial years of the “traditional” agreement for the Granddaddy of Them All: the B1G versus the Pac-12 (or their ancestors…
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January 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1946 dailymcplay.com/2025/01/24/r... #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #USCTrojans #AlabamaCrimsonTide #NCAAHistory #CollegeFootball
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1946
We reach a landmark (or two?) today on Rose Bowl Friday: the first Granddaddy of Them All loss for the USC Trojans ever—and the last Pasadena matchup for a long time that wasn’t the now-known…
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January 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1945 dailymcplay.com/2025/01/17/r... #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #CollegeFootball #NCAAHistory #USCTrojans #TennesseeVolunteers #JimHardy
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1945
For Rose Bowl Friday today, we have our last wartime Granddaddy of Them All, and in this situation, the University of Tennessee made its second appearance in Pasadena, earning a rematch with the US…
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January 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1944 dailymcplay.com/2025/01/10/r... #CollegeFootball #NCAAHistory #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #1944RoseBowl #USCTrojans #WashingtonHuskies #WorldWarII
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1944
Today’s Rose Bowl Friday is a unique one (again) in that wartime challenges limited cross-country travel, so two Best Coast teams faced off against each other in the Granddaddy of Them All: t…
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January 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1943 dailymcplay.com/2025/01/03/r... #RoseBowlHistory #RoseBowl #BobWaterfield #UCLABruins #FrankSinkwich #GeorgiaBulldogs #Sabermetrics
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1943
Our first Rose Bowl Friday of the new calendar year brings along World War II progress, as the University of Georgia made its Granddaddy of Them All debut, playing against the UCLA Bruins—also maki…
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January 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1942 dailymcplay.com/2024/12/27/r... #CollegeFootball #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #OregonStateBeavers #DukeBlueDevils #1942RoseBowl #NCAAHistory
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1942
This Rose Bowl Friday is quite unique, as we examine the only time the Granddaddy of Them All was not played in Pasadena. Staged just 24 days after Pearl Harbor, the game was moved from the West Co…
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December 28, 2024 at 2:49 AM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1941 dailymcplay.com/2024/12/20/r... #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #StanfordIndians #NebraskaCornhuskers #1941RoseBowl #ClarkShaughnessy #FrankieAlbert #PeteKmetovic
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1941
Our Rose Bowl Friday miniseries continues with a look at the culmination of the 1940 regular season. And this time, the “Champion of the East” actually just was from the Midwest: Nebras…
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December 20, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 2, 1939 dailymcplay.com/2024/12/06/r... #CollegeFootball #RoseBowl #ROseBowlHistory #USCTrojans #DukeBlueDevils #NCAA
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 2, 1939
Rose Bowl Friday always makes us both happy and sad: the former because we grew up with the tradition that was so great in the 1970s and the 1980s; the latter because college football is now just a…
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December 6, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1938 dailymcplay.com/2024/11/29/r... #RoseBowl #RoseBowlHistory #AlabamaCrimsonTide #CaliforniaGoldenBears #MythicalNationalChampions #Sabermetrics #MediaPolls
Rose Bowl Friday: Remembering January 1, 1938
We give thanks on this Rose Bowl Friday for the Alabama Crimson Tide’s first loss in the Granddaddy of Them All. The Red Menace from the Confederacy had been 3-0-1 before rolling into Souther…
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November 29, 2024 at 10:52 PM