As college football moves toward expansion, there are numerous details that still need to be ironed out. With many of the sport’s power brokers pushing for a 12-team field as early as 2024, one of the looming questions to be ironed out is rooted in the game’s past: What will become of The Granddaddy of Them All?
The Rose Bowl is college football’s most iconic bowl game, with over a century’s worth of memorable moments. All parties involved in College Football Playoff expansion negotiations are working toward a necessary unanimous agreement on all terms, and how the Rose Bowl fits into the future plans is still part of the discussion, according to ESPN’s Heather Dinich.
The key issue is the game’s exclusive rights to the much-coveted Jan. 1 or Jan. 2 broadcast window. The Rose Bowl has shown a willingness to be flexible with its historic Big Ten-Pac-12 affiliation in order to work with the CFP’s rotating semifinal host site schedule, per Dinich, but would like assurances about the time and date slot in the new contract.
