The Rose Bowl is looking for to get out of the Faculty Soccer Playoff semifinal rotation beginning in 2026, sources inform CBS Sports activities’ Dennis Dodd. If bowl officers are profitable, the Granddaddy of Them All will completely transfer to its conventional Jan. 1 date.
“As a result of we’re the one bowl that has the date as a part of our model within the New Yr’s Six bowls, it is actually crucial for us and necessary for us,” Rose Bowl administration committee chair Laura Farber advised ESPN. “We do not know when there will probably be a longform settlement. We’re hopeful it will likely be before later, however that is dependent upon when the CFP has the whole lot able to go.”
This isn’t the Rose Bowl’s first try and hold its conventional spot. In response to Dodd, officers held out for the sport’s conventional Jan. 1, 5 p.m. ET, kickoff time throughout authentic negotiations for the 12-team playoff, however they have been advised no.
“(That is) not new information,” one Faculty Soccer Playoff bowl official acquainted with the talks advised Dodd.
With the brand new 12-team CFP playoff beginning this season, 4 New Yr’s Six bowls will host the quarterfinals on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. The opposite two bowls will play host to the semifinals the next week. The Rose Bowl is scheduled to be a quarterfinal matchup for the subsequent two seasons.
The Rose Bowl was first performed in Pasadena, California in 1902 and have become an annual occasion in 1916. It has been performed within the stadium bearing its identify yearly aside from 1941-42 (moved to Durham, North Carolina attributable to World Conflict II) and 2021 (moved to Arlington, Texas attributable to COVID).
Till 2002, Each Rose Bowl sport featured a matchup between a crew from the Pac-12 and Large Ten. That yr it performed host to the BCS Nationwide Championship Sport between Nebraska and Miami. Since then it has been a part of the BCS and later the Faculty Soccer Playoff rotation. Final yr’s sport noticed eventual nationwide champion Michigan maintain off Alabama within the semifinal of the final four-team CFP.
