PASADENA — It rained a lot here Thursday morning, and it did not matter. Sideways sleet would not have dampened the utter joy of the tens of thousands of Indiana fans who came to never-never land, also known as the Rose Bowl. They wore rain ponchos and wide smiles while pouring into this august venue, and looks of utter euphoria while floating out.
They came in massive numbers for the school’s first Rose Bowl in 58 years, dwarfing the Alabama contingent. The Hoosiers’ average home attendance this season was almost exactly half of the Crimson Tide’s, 51,184 to 100,077, but they more than doubled Bama’s crowd here.
