traveled 5000 miles in a day and a half to watch my ducks get thraxxed, and still left blown away. a truly special place, i’d compare it to the Grand Canyon for the awe factor as a college football lover. they do it right in Pasadena. that being said, the stadium needs a $100 million renovation first tho.
Honestly some of the charm is that it’s not as polished. Just toss up a bigger video board and maybe get the entry flow cleaned up and it’s good. Was there seeing the ducks get trashed but 2nd time I’ve been where tOSU beat us. At least I was there for Wisconsin when we won.
@@dmugi agree with that, it is why the renovation should be around $100M. i think a new board is on the way. entry flow and some upgrades to facilities like restrooms and you’ll have something really special. Memorial Stadium in lincoln is a good example of what can be done with an old building.
@@ztnork you are aware they are getting an $85 million expansion starting now to coincide with grand opening prior to the Olympics right? Privately funded fully paid for already.
IMO it doesn't matter how good any venue is, there should not be 1 permanent national championship spot as it favors teams from that region. It needs to rotate
Not a traditionalist but the fact the Rose remains less touched by corporate interests reminds me of college football 25 years ago when as a teen I first started waking up to college football. I love the venue, been there three times now to see the Ducks in the rose bowl. Great place.
I’ve been in the rose bowl for a regular season matchup of UCLA and my Sun devils once, and 5 more time performing in the Drumcorps Internaional circuit. Nothing compares. It may not be college football, but I’ve performed in dozens of college and pro stadiums and nothing compares to the grandeur of the rose bowl.
I think that if you're going to have the current format, the historically 5 major bowls (Cotton, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, and Rose) should host the final 4 games and then national championship game.
The Cotton WAS special for decades until the late 90s when it lost prestige for about 15-20 years. The Cotton is one of the most traditional and special of all the games.
@thetony5474: I agree. Entirely. The other more grand and sweeping traditions were once themselves newly minted ideas. Besides, a jolt of fun and lunacy desperately needs to winnow its way into College Football. And it beats dumping FIVE Gallons of Mayo on a guy!😂🏈B.W.
I was lucky enough to go to the Rose Bowl back-to-back years as a member of the Utah marching band, and the magic of the place is not overhyped one bit. If anything, it's underhyped somehow. You can't put the Rose Bowl experience into words. The parade in the morning, then heading to the stadium for the game afterwards. Walking down the tunnel and seeing the stadium open up as I walked down onto the field was a surreal experience. I would love for the Rose Bowl Game to be the natty every year. Playing the natty there on New Year's Day at 2 pm local time sounds so much better than having it in some dome on a Monday night three weeks later.
You pretty much nailed the point. the Rose Bowl will always be played on New Year's Day, and the national title has to be held in the middle of January
I think it should be. The Rose bowl is to me and this is coming from a guy from Alabama who is a Auburn fan. I think the Rose bowl should be our National Championship spot every year !!!!
As a High Scholl athlete watching the big rival High School game and the New Years game every year was a privilege. As a former PAC 10-12 fan watching USC win in the Rose Bowl most of the time I cant say to much more about the place. I love me some Rose Bowl Go Trojans, Fight On and Happy New Year everyone.
I’ve been saying this for years. It is the most beautiful location for a college football game, the stadium is a traditional design so it feels like you’re watching a game in the historic early days of the sport, and there is plenty of things to do for fans before and after the game. The Rose Bow and Pasadena are better locations for a title game than nearly anywhere else in the country.
As an east coast person that goes to bed early and wakes up 5:00 AM every day, I hate west coast games and how late they always start. National championship games need to start before 7:30 eastern time.
Due to the history of the Grand-Daddy bowl, and due to so many recent changes made to CFB, I believe making the Rose Bowl the CFB national championship game would create a lasting tradition that is much needed in the college game where many traditions have been thrown to the wind.
I wish it was, but I know it never will be. The bigger issue right now is there's no way they can keep having so many neutral site games between conference championships and playoffs. The fact that the top 4 seeds don't get to host a playoff game is crazy. Just make the semi matchups in 2 locations and the championship in a 3rd location. Rotate them every year like the Super Bowl does.
Vegas to me was always a n9 Brainerd to host. Great domed stadium, great destination site to visit, more than enough accommodations with easy access to the stadium, tons of places to watchthr gameif you dont have tickets. Also a true neutral site.
I grew up 15 miles from the Rose Bowl and have had the privilege to attend 2 Jan 1 Rose Bowls with 106,000 other fans in the 70’s. Then later in the early 2000’s when my son was on the UCLA team. This is an Iconic Venue and Ask Any Collegiate Player where would they like to play in Jan 1st? Answer is “ The Rose Bowl “ and I agree with Joel Klatt, this should Always be the National Championship Game and On Jan 1st by moving the games up to Accommodate that Suggestion
@ Well I agree with you that football in the south is a Passion. But the Rose Bowl would pretty much be a neutral site and so much more for fans and players to do in S California than to stroll and get in trouble in New Orleans. Thou that is close second.
I still like the Fiesta Bowl where they have a dome and a retractable grass field that can roll outside and get sunlight. Im not sure why these new stadiums/domes havent adopted that idea. Great weather on grass
I have honestly never travelled to the Rose Bowl, but I have always wanted to ever since the last BCS game. Is it logistically as easy to travel to in comparison to other major airport hubs with stadiums?
I don’t care what they do. What I do care about is the long wait and bi time teams how to endure before the big game. Oregon had to wait almost a whole month before facing Ohio State last week!!!!That’s crazy!!!
Increasing field to 16 teams eliminates the byes and still no one has to play more than 4 games to win NC just like this 12 team format. Done. Other than their being 4 blowouts in 1st round, now there’ll be 8!
I think if you used the current sites for the six New Year's Day Bowls, and add Houston, you could have a good rotation. All seven cities are capable of hosting major events. If you want to add Vegas as an 8th site, it could handle the crowds also.
The problem with the Rose Bowl hosting the national title game would be that kickoff would come after 5pm, thus negating those incredible shots of the stadium framed by the majesty of the San Gabriel mountains. Those vistas and parcel and parcel of the Rose Bowl game experience.
@@davidsalkin8067 you would see the majestic shots as kickoff happens rather than in the second half…. The national title game would be mid January as the days were already getting longer and the sun wouldn’t be setting till at least 530 PM.
@@vikramparmar8093 Right. But unlike the Rose Bowl game that starts a 2pm (pacific coast time) the Championship game is played on Monday. Kickoff is 5pm which would allow only a precious few minutes to enjoy the setting, if the setting if part of the overall production.
@@davidsalkin8067 I'm assuming you live in California, and you know the sun sets by around 6 o'clock by mid to late January. That would get us almost to halftime and all of the pregame entertainment. This is a moot point because the Rose Bowl will never allow their game to be played on January 20. The Rose Bowl will always want their game to be played on New Year's Day, so they'll be happy to make their game quarterfinal.
What it should be is Orange Bowl one year and Rose Bowl Next year. East Coast/West Coast everyone gets it in there yard that way. And for the thousand time Football is meant for the outdoors not Domes
@nicholaspowell7931 OK dummy. Then what is college football? New Orleans? Miami? Atlanta? Phoenix? You really didn't think this through thoroughly did you? If you want a sold out game bring it to Vegas. Everyone wants to come here. Plus we have the infrastructure to handle it. That's why we host major events all year long. Did you not notice the crowd between LSU and USC?
Most people travel to State College and then home after games. There were still hotel rooms available. It was winter graduation and most students were at home. You can quit beating that horse.
I went last year to watch my Wolverines against Bama. This is an easy yes for me. Phenomenal weather. Backdrop is insanely gorgeous. Only crap part is the stupid parking on the golf course and the traffic is a nightmare going through the residential neighborhood
One man's meat is another man's poison. Walking through the residential neighborhood, and then suddenly, after the last house, this vast stadium appeared. It was one of the most extraordinary things ever for me.
Far too many title games are played in locations that give teams a home field advantage. Atlanta-Bulldogs, Jerry's World-Texas, Pasadena-USC. The location should be different each year and not exclusively in the south. There are dome stadiums in the north that should also be included in these playoff games. Southern teams having a home field advantage on a regular basis should not be the norm.
@@NathanMoistno but these title games , bowl games and regular season games have historically been in the south. Dallas, Atlanta etc. I've said for a long time I'd like to see sec teams play a "Neutral" site game in Chicago or Detroit, Minneapolis etc. or travel out west and play in S.F San Diego
I would disagree. I think the best venue I've seen for football, and the best city to host the huge influx of people that would come to watch the game, would be Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas. The weather there would be very temperate, around 60-70 degrees, there is plenty for people to do before and after the game, you're never short on options for food and alcohol, the whole place is just a spectacle. Or, if not the national title game, perhaps they should do both of the semifinal games there and leave the other two new years six bowls out of the playoff picture. Similar to the NCAA Final Four, they could play both semifinal games in one day, one in the morning and one in the late afternoon/evening. I'm sure none of this will ever happen. Just brainstorming with y'all since we all know serious changes need to be made to this entire playoff structure right now.
I've been going to the Rose Bowl for various events for 30 years and this year was my last. Aside from the setting, it's a dump and has deficiencies you cannot fix even with a planned renovation, like getting in, getting out and parking which are absolutely brutal. Of course Josh loves the place, because he sits in his air conditioned suite and has limos drop him off and pick him up.
How Josh feels about the Rose Bowl being the host to national title game every year is how I feel about the Sugar Bowl. I grew up knowing that if you got to the Sugar Bowl, your team had one hell of a season. With the Sugar Bowl having SEC tie-in's, the champ was rewarded with a great trip to New Orleans. And logistically, playing in the central time zone, in my opinion, is a better option overall. 7:30pm central kick off time means everyone in the nation gets to watch most, if not all the game. A 7:30pm pacific time kick off for the Rose Bowl is too late for the rest of the nation to watch.
College football has changed so much in the last few years, so a single venue for the natty is just another thing an doesn't matter. In the next 10 to 20 years it will change again anyway, so again it doesn't matter. Fans will complain about a specific venue for the sake of complaining, so you guessed it, it doesn't matter.
The championship game doesn’t need a permanent host it’d be a major advantage to one side of the country barely having to travel Have one stadium in the West & one stadium in the East & alternate it every year 🤷♂️
you people are so slow it doesn’t matter where the game is held someone is going to have a geographical advantage the best thing to do is keep moving the location every year
@ That’s literally what I just said move it from the East coast to the West coast every year lol the problem is there’s not enough great stadiums that deserve the game I been to the Rose bowl twice recently as a Penn State fan & the stadium is truly trash it’s the fans & pageantry that make it special
Yeah -- "the granddaddy of them all" -- tradition -- is about as ideal as it gets ? > A beautiful venue and a place better than any other ? = Every year on Jan 1 - would be perfect in my view - allowing no long waits for weeks in Dec. & not playing ! Get all the playoff games in and be ready for the Title Game - New Years day !!! = Even '''if''' fewer teams can participate - cause many have no realistic chance of winning it all anyway ? 👍👋👊👌🤞🙏
I think they should bring in the Citrus Bowl into the mix since it use to be a big New Years day bowl. What they should do is rotate all the big bowls to host the Championship game🏈
West coast doesn't care about CFB so let's give them the NC every year, I'll pass on that, been there and it's a cool atmosphere but the premise is a dumb idea
Went three times in the 2000s. Was great, but didn’t earn my vote to be the exclusive home of the championship game. I also don’t think Omaha should always get the College World Series. Spread the wealth AND the home field advantage, for that matter. Speaking of wealth, what’s with the ticket prices form the CFP and Championship? Not the secondary market, but the true face value pricing is an embarrassing affront to the college football fan.
Mi like that, but it can be any city , nist keep the locations ( Midwest, south, west coast) tho I think rose bowl full time would be the best, it's the only bowl left with traditional like pate said
Hotels in Happy Valley during ANY football game is Minimum $400/night...must buy the whole weekend AND there is NO refunds. Rooms can go up to $1000 per night! Most fans travel a minimum of 2 to 5 hour drive, others fly in...and that are the Penn State fans themselves.....Cheaper to take a weekend vacation in Vegas, including airfare! Going to any Bowl games cost about the same as a game in Happy Valley. CFB has been a major money pit for fans, at least for Penn State fans. Not like anOSU located in a major city like Columbus. If Penn State was located in Philly or Pittsburgh, they would need a 200,000 seat stadium!
Football was meant to be played outdoors in the environment. Rain, wind, snow and sunshine provide challenges for all teams. Indoors at Jerry’s World doesn’t provide any of that. Fans will follow their team no matter the weather.
I think every playoff game should be at a college campus until the national championship game. The national championship game should be played at the Rose Bowl every year.
People in the Winter do not want to be in the Center of the Country they want beaches, tropical Climate away form the snow winds and terrible weather, This is the real reason why bowls were invented to get your Midwesterners out of the cold and snow and give them a vacation in some tropical environment where it is Sunny and warm 70% of the time
I’d say either always have the national championship in Pasadena Or once the commanders field is done in DC because I’m almost positive Congress is gonna pass some type of legislation, granting them apart partial of land in DC to develop see if the NCAA can work with the NFL to always have the national championship in the nations capital
If it was ther this year I’m sure Penn States , ND or Ohio State wouldn’t be complaining! We should try something like that for the next 25 years just to see how it works out like those three teams have had to do for the past 25!
What pisses me off about the "we can't make fans travel too much" argument is that it's really code for "we want all significant games to be held in the south to give the SEC an advantage". So happy that Georgia got curb stomped by Notre Dame. Having the final game in Atlanta was an entirely unfair advantage to them. Oh and it's "benevolent overlord".
I’m sure it’s great experience for media members but the stadium is an absolute dump. Takes 45 min to use restroom bc of the isles and the dumb tunnel situation. People who put it on do good job.
@@1tiny3ds you add the sugar bowl in New Orleans and alternate in those three venues every three years and that is a great tradition as well as being very profitable
SIMPLE SOLUTION: Regular season: start Aug 9-Nov 1. take 2 weeks off or teams can start Aug 2 & have 3 weeks off in season bye. NO CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP. lock it at the best 16 team CFP teams, NO AUTOBIDS w/ voting 10% Coaches poll, 15% AP poll, 25% CFP Committee, 50% Computer poll like BCS), The SWEET 16 NOV 15. ELITE 8 Nov 30, FINAL 4 DEC 13 ROSE BOWL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Jan 1. First 2 rounds higher seed get home games over by Nov 30. final 4 rotate 2 of remaining 5 major bowls (SUGAR< ORANGE< COTTON< FRIESTA & PEACH) the CFP off-bowl years for 3 of these 5 still have bowl games. Guaranteed 17-22 ranked teams. These other 3 bowls play Thanksgiving weekend. Realistically, those 5 bowls won't go for that so, the realistic compromise is the 6 Major bowls (Rose, Peach, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta & Orange) rotate FINAL 4 AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. 3 Games on 3 games off BUT make it Every other year IN FINAL 4 or NATTY. so, 1 Bowl every 6 years in Natty, 2 out of 6 in final 4 & 3 out of 6 Thanksgiving weekend. The other option is too much fan cost for travel but if major bowls can't agree, the 4 games ELITE 8 and 2 games Final 4 rotate ALL 6 in every year #1 seeds Nov 2 pick bowl structure. BUT if you do that make the championship at either an NFL Stadium Nov 2 #1 seed choice or have it in new billion-dollar Las Vegas stadium every year
Anyone non-Big10 fan growing up east of the Mississippi never looked forward to the Rose Bowl. It was too far away and the teams weren't important. Probably better than the Liberty Bowl, though.
The tams weren’t important? How old are you, you obviously don’t remember when those two conference member were involved in the rose bowl matchup, were in the national championship hunt on a regular basis!
The Rose Bowl and the national title at the Rose Bowl aren't the same game, people. The former is tradition, it's classic, while the latter is just luck of the draw. I mean, seriously, go watch every "1 vs 2" game that's happened there.
Wasn’t football invented in the North. Canton Ohio? Why the NFL hall of fame is there? Pretty sure Football was invented in the North😂 Also 3 of the teams left are from the North.
@@phmiraclecleanse I have never attended a football game an said To myself I wish the lighting was better. And who cares about the chokepoint at the golf course. There is a charm in parking there and it’s a really cool walk through the neighborhood into the stadium. From your post, I doubt you have actually ever been to a Rose Bowl
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Anything but Atlanta. Jesus wept that is the dumbest city to host anything.
traveled 5000 miles in a day and a half to watch my ducks get thraxxed, and still left blown away. a truly special place, i’d compare it to the Grand Canyon for the awe factor as a college football lover. they do it right in Pasadena.
that being said, the stadium needs a $100 million renovation first tho.
Honestly some of the charm is that it’s not as polished. Just toss up a bigger video board and maybe get the entry flow cleaned up and it’s good. Was there seeing the ducks get trashed but 2nd time I’ve been where tOSU beat us. At least I was there for Wisconsin when we won.
@@dmugi agree with that, it is why the renovation should be around $100M. i think a new board is on the way. entry flow and some upgrades to facilities like restrooms and you’ll have something really special.
Memorial Stadium in lincoln is a good example of what can be done with an old building.
@@ztnork you are aware they are getting an $85 million expansion starting now to coincide with grand opening prior to the Olympics right? Privately funded fully paid for already.
Right, it's about the experience
IMO it doesn't matter how good any venue is, there should not be 1 permanent national championship spot as it favors teams from that region. It needs to rotate
Not a traditionalist but the fact the Rose remains less touched by corporate interests reminds me of college football 25 years ago when as a teen I first started waking up to college football.
I love the venue, been there three times now to see the Ducks in the rose bowl. Great place.
It's the Rose Bowl presented by Prudential Financial. The only literal difference is they put their Corporate sponsor's name second. 😂
It's the Rose Bowl presented by Prudential Financial. The only literal difference is they put their corporate sponsor's name second. 🙄
I’ve been in the rose bowl for a regular season matchup of UCLA and my Sun devils once, and 5 more time performing in the Drumcorps Internaional circuit. Nothing compares. It may not be college football, but I’ve performed in dozens of college and pro stadiums and nothing compares to the grandeur of the rose bowl.
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I think that if you're going to have the current format, the historically 5 major bowls (Cotton, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, and Rose) should host the final 4 games and then national championship game.
The cotton wasn't always special. If you add that one then you have to add the peach bowl.
The Cotton WAS special for decades until the late 90s when it lost prestige for about 15-20 years. The Cotton is one of the most traditional and special of all the games.
Been once for rose bowl in 2018. The venue is priceless. Weather is perfect and parade is awesome. Yes, it’s the grand daddy of them all
Pop Tarts Bowl should be a Semi Final game.
Pop Tarts Bowl doesn't have the prestige of the Blockbuster Bowl
@@VidaBlue317Pop Tarts Bowl nor Blockbuster Bowl can compare to the Toys R Us Bowl.
@@ttravis10 Yeah Toys R Us Bowl is on another level - save that game for the National Championship
@thetony5474: I agree. Entirely. The other more grand and sweeping traditions were once themselves newly minted ideas. Besides, a jolt of fun and lunacy desperately needs to winnow its way into College Football. And it beats dumping FIVE Gallons of Mayo on a guy!😂🏈B.W.
We all know it's the Gaylord hotel bowl
I was lucky enough to go to the Rose Bowl back-to-back years as a member of the Utah marching band, and the magic of the place is not overhyped one bit. If anything, it's underhyped somehow. You can't put the Rose Bowl experience into words. The parade in the morning, then heading to the stadium for the game afterwards. Walking down the tunnel and seeing the stadium open up as I walked down onto the field was a surreal experience. I would love for the Rose Bowl Game to be the natty every year. Playing the natty there on New Year's Day at 2 pm local time sounds so much better than having it in some dome on a Monday night three weeks later.
You pretty much nailed the point. the Rose Bowl will always be played on New Year's Day, and the national title has to be held in the middle of January
The venue itself needs massive upgrades. It can be done while preserving the tradition.
I think it should be. The Rose bowl is to me and this is coming from a guy from Alabama who is a Auburn fan. I think the Rose bowl should be our National Championship spot every year !!!!
As a High Scholl athlete watching the big rival High School game and the New Years game every year was a privilege. As a former PAC 10-12 fan watching USC win in the Rose Bowl most of the time I cant say to much more about the place. I love me some Rose Bowl Go Trojans, Fight On and Happy New Year everyone.
I’ve been saying this for years. It is the most beautiful location for a college football game, the stadium is a traditional design so it feels like you’re watching a game in the historic early days of the sport, and there is plenty of things to do for fans before and after the game. The Rose Bow and Pasadena are better locations for a title game than nearly anywhere else in the country.
As an east coast person that goes to bed early and wakes up 5:00 AM every day, I hate west coast games and how late they always start.
National championship games need to start before 7:30 eastern time.
Due to the history of the Grand-Daddy bowl, and due to so many recent changes made to CFB, I believe making the Rose Bowl the CFB national championship game would create a lasting tradition that is much needed in the college game where many traditions have been thrown to the wind.
Just based off the title, Yes!!! But the rest of the bowls will not go for it as they want the revenue and attraction to their facilities as well.
I wish it was, but I know it never will be. The bigger issue right now is there's no way they can keep having so many neutral site games between conference championships and playoffs. The fact that the top 4 seeds don't get to host a playoff game is crazy. Just make the semi matchups in 2 locations and the championship in a 3rd location. Rotate them every year like the Super Bowl does.
Rotate venues nakes it more interesting, loved seeing the Rose bowl back in the days B1G Pac 12.
we should build a space stadium and the national championship played on the moon every year
What about the idea of the first two rounds being home games for the higher ranked team?
Thank you, commissioner Pate.
What, no home game for an SEC finalist?!!! No way ESPN allows that!
good weather //vegas stadium//indoor stadium if seasonal weather is a concern
Vegas to me was always a n9 Brainerd to host. Great domed stadium, great destination site to visit, more than enough accommodations with easy access to the stadium, tons of places to watchthr gameif you dont have tickets. Also a true neutral site.
Vegas is not College football hell it aint even pro football it is a Tourist hell hole nobody is from there. SO one big giant NO
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If this happens, then Ill definitely never ever see Wisconsin win a Rose Bowl :(
No. Greenbay, WI is the place.
I grew up 15 miles from the Rose Bowl and have had the privilege to attend 2 Jan 1 Rose Bowls with 106,000 other fans in the 70’s. Then later in the early 2000’s when my son was on the UCLA team. This is an Iconic Venue and Ask Any Collegiate Player where would they like to play in Jan 1st? Answer is “ The Rose Bowl “ and I agree with Joel Klatt, this should Always be the National Championship Game and On Jan 1st by moving the games up to Accommodate that Suggestion
With all due respect sir, 95% of the players in the SEC would say the Sugar Bowl, well because Football; It Just Means More in the South!
@ Well I agree with you that football in the south is a Passion. But the Rose Bowl would pretty much be a neutral site and so much more for fans and players to do in S California than to stroll and get in trouble in New Orleans. Thou that is close second.
@@garyroenicke2102 LOL, sir, you obviously missed my sarcasm from this Buckeye fan!! Happy New Year
@ I Did. Good luck to the Buckeyes, they look unbeatable. I’m a Bama fan from the west coast living in Florida now temporarily
@@garyroenicke2102 not Gary Roenicke, the baseball player?! I guess you dont have to answer that, LOL!
I still like the Fiesta Bowl where they have a dome and a retractable grass field that can roll outside and get sunlight. Im not sure why these new stadiums/domes havent adopted that idea. Great weather on grass
You can't have teams always travel to California for the national championship dang it. Have it multiple years in Atlanta. 😂
I have honestly never travelled to the Rose Bowl, but I have always wanted to ever since the last BCS game. Is it logistically as easy to travel to in comparison to other major airport hubs with stadiums?
I don’t care what they do. What I do care about is the long wait and bi time teams how to endure before the big game. Oregon had to wait almost a whole month before facing Ohio State last week!!!!That’s crazy!!!
Increasing field to 16 teams eliminates the byes and still no one has to play more than 4 games to win NC just like this 12 team format. Done. Other than their being 4 blowouts in 1st round, now there’ll be 8!
I think if you used the current sites for the six New Year's Day Bowls, and add Houston, you could have a good rotation. All seven cities are capable of hosting major events. If you want to add Vegas as an 8th site, it could handle the crowds also.
The problem with the Rose Bowl hosting the national title game would be that kickoff would come after 5pm, thus negating those incredible shots of the stadium framed by the majesty of the San Gabriel mountains. Those vistas and parcel and parcel of the Rose Bowl game experience.
@@davidsalkin8067 you would see the majestic shots as kickoff happens rather than in the second half…. The national title game would be mid January as the days were already getting longer and the sun wouldn’t be setting till at least 530 PM.
@@vikramparmar8093 Right. But unlike the Rose Bowl game that starts a 2pm (pacific coast time) the Championship game is played on Monday. Kickoff is 5pm which would allow only a precious few minutes to enjoy the setting, if the setting if part of the overall production.
@@davidsalkin8067 I'm assuming you live in California, and you know the sun sets by around 6 o'clock by mid to late January. That would get us almost to halftime and all of the pregame entertainment. This is a moot point because the Rose Bowl will never allow their game to be played on January 20. The Rose Bowl will always want their game to be played on New Year's Day, so they'll be happy to make their game quarterfinal.
It’s outside and has real grass. With ,usually, nice weather.
When do tickets go on sale ?
been there for UCLA/SC games, PAC 10 games, even ran a Spartan race there, the grandaddy
It should bounce between Pasadena and Vegas. Bring the natty to Vegas. Everyone would love it.
Agree, and not just because I live there....😉
Vegas is not College football hell it aint even pro football it is a Tourist hell hole nobody is from there. SO one big giant NO
What it should be is Orange Bowl one year and Rose Bowl Next year. East Coast/West Coast everyone gets it in there yard that way. And for the thousand time Football is meant for the outdoors not Domes
@nicholaspowell7931 OK dummy. Then what is college football? New Orleans? Miami? Atlanta? Phoenix? You really didn't think this through thoroughly did you? If you want a sold out game bring it to Vegas. Everyone wants to come here. Plus we have the infrastructure to handle it. That's why we host major events all year long. Did you not notice the crowd between LSU and USC?
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Make the rose bowl the big ten championship site !
@rickylenczewski468 yes. Spread the word. Tell others.
@@Mike-sp7zvIf a west coast team is first in the standings put it in the Rose Bowl. If not keep it in Indianapolis
@@scottyclayton2501 that'd be too complicated
I love the venue and I’d like to have the game there sometimes. But not EVERY year.
Most people travel to State College and then home after games. There were still hotel rooms available. It was winter graduation and most students were at home. You can quit beating that horse.
I went last year to watch my Wolverines against Bama. This is an easy yes for me. Phenomenal weather. Backdrop is insanely gorgeous. Only crap part is the stupid parking on the golf course and the traffic is a nightmare going through the residential neighborhood
One man's meat is another man's poison. Walking through the residential neighborhood, and then suddenly, after the last house, this vast stadium appeared. It was one of the most extraordinary things ever for me.
Spread the love... i.e. location of the NC game. And yes, I have been there twice, once regular season game and the other NC game.
Far too many title games are played in locations that give teams a home field advantage. Atlanta-Bulldogs, Jerry's World-Texas, Pasadena-USC. The location should be different each year and not exclusively in the south. There are dome stadiums in the north that should also be included in these playoff games.
Southern teams having a home field advantage on a regular basis should not be the norm.
Add in New Orleans- LSU, Miami- Miami if they ever get back to the U form. I totally agree with you that the South hosts way too many championships
there are only a few cities where the stadiums, atmospheres and infrastructure can all be top notch
we can’t just play anywhere
So if the game is at Ford Field in whatever year and Michigan makes it to the title game they should move it elsewhere?
@wealthyfuture999 just like the superbowl. I think Detroit can host a natty game due to Michigan. Also, LA can host a natty game
@@NathanMoistno but these title games , bowl games and regular season games have historically been in the south.
Dallas, Atlanta etc. I've said for a long time I'd like to see sec teams play a "Neutral" site game in Chicago or Detroit, Minneapolis etc. or travel out west and play in S.F San Diego
I would disagree. I think the best venue I've seen for football, and the best city to host the huge influx of people that would come to watch the game, would be Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas. The weather there would be very temperate, around 60-70 degrees, there is plenty for people to do before and after the game, you're never short on options for food and alcohol, the whole place is just a spectacle.
Or, if not the national title game, perhaps they should do both of the semifinal games there and leave the other two new years six bowls out of the playoff picture. Similar to the NCAA Final Four, they could play both semifinal games in one day, one in the morning and one in the late afternoon/evening.
I'm sure none of this will ever happen. Just brainstorming with y'all since we all know serious changes need to be made to this entire playoff structure right now.
SoFi
@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536 that's a nice one too. I just figure Vegas is a better venue for taking on a whole lot of people
Vegas is 40s-50s in the winter, but that is really irrelevant as Allegiant is a dome. But it would be a destination site that everyone would flock to.
I love the idea of the Rose Bowl being the National Championship game. The Rose Bowl is what College Football is all about
It needs to be held in either Miami, Fl Orange Bowl as well
have it in east coast west coast every other year
I've been going to the Rose Bowl for various events for 30 years and this year was my last. Aside from the setting, it's a dump and has deficiencies you cannot fix even with a planned renovation, like getting in, getting out and parking which are absolutely brutal. Of course Josh loves the place, because he sits in his air conditioned suite and has limos drop him off and pick him up.
This 100%. I went to the rose bowl and I was disappointed
It would be hard to get them to agree to making that the permanent national title venue. It is definitely worthy of it though.
How Josh feels about the Rose Bowl being the host to national title game every year is how I feel about the Sugar Bowl. I grew up knowing that if you got to the Sugar Bowl, your team had one hell of a season. With the Sugar Bowl having SEC tie-in's, the champ was rewarded with a great trip to New Orleans. And logistically, playing in the central time zone, in my opinion, is a better option overall. 7:30pm central kick off time means everyone in the nation gets to watch most, if not all the game. A 7:30pm pacific time kick off for the Rose Bowl is too late for the rest of the nation to watch.
College football has changed so much in the last few years, so a single venue for the natty is just another thing an doesn't matter. In the next 10 to 20 years it will change again anyway, so again it doesn't matter. Fans will complain about a specific venue for the sake of complaining, so you guessed it, it doesn't matter.
Unfortunately all 6 NY6 bowls are involved in CFP decision making. Absolutely no way the other 5 NY6 bowls sign off on it
The championship game doesn’t need a permanent host it’d be a major advantage to one side of the country barely having to travel
Have one stadium in the West & one stadium in the East & alternate it every year 🤷♂️
you people are so slow
it doesn’t matter where the game is held someone is going to have a geographical advantage
the best thing to do is keep moving the location every year
@ That’s literally what I just said move it from the East coast to the West coast every year lol the problem is there’s not enough great stadiums that deserve the game
I been to the Rose bowl twice recently as a Penn State fan & the stadium is truly trash it’s the fans & pageantry that make it special
Thats what I say Orange Bowl and Rose Bowl both tropical climates both suitable for family and adult entertainment.
Like the advantage a certain region now has with a rotation that includes ATL, NOLA and MIA!?
Talk about slow! Wheres the geographical advantage for the B1G, ND and occaissional teams like Pitt WVU, etc?!?!?
Any permanent venue for the national title game should be centrally located within the US to reduce the costs for fans attending the games.
Just dropping in cuz of the title.....YES!!!!!
I think it should host all national title games minus the games involving the west coast teams (due to home field advantage)
Yeah -- "the granddaddy of them all" -- tradition -- is about as ideal as it gets ? > A beautiful venue and a place better than any other ? = Every year on Jan 1 - would be perfect in my view - allowing no long waits for weeks in Dec. & not playing ! Get all the playoff games in and be ready for the Title Game - New Years day !!! = Even '''if''' fewer teams can participate - cause many have no realistic chance of winning it all anyway ? 👍👋👊👌🤞🙏
I think they should bring in the Citrus Bowl into the mix since it use to be a big New Years day bowl. What they should do is rotate all the big bowls to host the Championship game🏈
West coast doesn't care about CFB so let's give them the NC every year, I'll pass on that, been there and it's a cool atmosphere but the premise is a dumb idea
Went three times in the 2000s. Was great, but didn’t earn my vote to be the exclusive home of the championship game. I also don’t think Omaha should always get the College World Series. Spread the wealth AND the home field advantage, for that matter. Speaking of wealth, what’s with the ticket prices form the CFP and Championship? Not the secondary market, but the true face value pricing is an embarrassing affront to the college football fan.
I think the conference championships should rotate stadiums in their conference, I.e. Florida Georgia playing in Neyland
I like rotation. No permanent venue ever.
Rotation as always make the championship game in the south🙄
@@dylanschafer172no 3 or 4 rotation ATL , rose bowl and Indy
@@dylanschafer172Well tell your people to make their venues outside the South more hospitable
Mi like that, but it can be any city , nist keep the locations
( Midwest, south, west coast) tho I think rose bowl full time would be the best, it's the only bowl left with traditional like pate said
@@dylanschafer172there are domes up north. They xould be played there easily.
No. Why should warm weather teams always get a warm weather venue?
They have the best games at the rose bowl game as well
TEAMS love playing there
Best atmosphere in all of sports
If the national championship was there every other year that's cool but not every year
Hotels in Happy Valley during ANY football game is Minimum $400/night...must buy the whole weekend AND there is NO refunds. Rooms can go up to $1000 per night! Most fans travel a minimum of 2 to 5 hour drive, others fly in...and that are the Penn State fans themselves.....Cheaper to take a weekend vacation in Vegas, including airfare! Going to any Bowl games cost about the same as a game in Happy Valley.
CFB has been a major money pit for fans, at least for Penn State fans. Not like anOSU located in a major city like Columbus. If Penn State was located in Philly or Pittsburgh, they would need a 200,000 seat stadium!
I just want A.I. Keith Jackson calling every college football game.
No, it should rotate between the bowl venues.
YES. BEST STADIUM IN ALL OF FOOTBALL.
Football was meant to be played outdoors in the environment. Rain, wind, snow and sunshine provide challenges for all teams. Indoors at Jerry’s World doesn’t provide any of that. Fans will follow their team no matter the weather.
That and it is the Cowturds stadium makes it a defining no. Keep it in Dallas and play at the Real Cotton Bowl
Rotate the Rose, Fiesta, Cotton, Sugar, and Orange. Sorry, Atlanta, but not a fun destination for visitors. Like the aquarium, though.
Vegas
I think every playoff game should be at a college campus until the national championship game. The national championship game should be played at the Rose Bowl every year.
Aw come on who’d do a crazy thing like that…..oh wait all the other ncaa divisions of football and the NFL!
The title game should be held as close to the center of the country as possible. Less home cooking, less travel advantage.
People in the Winter do not want to be in the Center of the Country they want beaches, tropical Climate away form the snow winds and terrible weather, This is the real reason why bowls were invented to get your Midwesterners out of the cold and snow and give them a vacation in some tropical environment where it is Sunny and warm 70% of the time
Nothing like the Rose Bowl ✌🏾
I’d say either always have the national championship in Pasadena
Or once the commanders field is done in DC because I’m almost positive Congress is gonna pass some type of legislation, granting them apart partial of land in DC to develop see if the NCAA can work with the NFL to always have the national championship in the nations capital
Not unless they put a dome on it! DC in January can be ugly weather!
If it was ther this year I’m sure Penn States , ND or Ohio State wouldn’t be complaining! We should try something like that for the next 25 years just to see how it works out like those three teams have had to do for the past 25!
Our Lady of Roses, pray for us...
Great tradition, but if there is no competition between the venues it will fall off quickly like everything else.
What pisses me off about the "we can't make fans travel too much" argument is that it's really code for "we want all significant games to be held in the south to give the SEC an advantage". So happy that Georgia got curb stomped by Notre Dame. Having the final game in Atlanta was an entirely unfair advantage to them.
Oh and it's "benevolent overlord".
My idea is two have 2 possible natty sites 1 eastern and one western then the highest seed in the natty gets to choose.
I’m sure it’s great experience for media members but the stadium is an absolute dump. Takes 45 min to use restroom bc of the isles and the dumb tunnel situation.
People who put it on do good job.
Wow this post is spicy… loving this New Year you .. 2025 = Open mindedness keep up the good work!
My opinion they should alternate between orange bowl and rose bowl. So many championship games in these 2 bowls
@@1tiny3ds you add the sugar bowl in New Orleans and alternate in those three venues every three years and that is a great tradition as well as being very profitable
I've been to many different title games... Rose Bowl is the best.
More playoff games on college campuses is the next best.
Play it at Hard Rock stadium.
SIMPLE SOLUTION: Regular season: start Aug 9-Nov 1. take 2 weeks off or teams can start Aug 2 & have 3 weeks off in season bye. NO CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP. lock it at the best 16 team CFP teams, NO AUTOBIDS w/ voting 10% Coaches poll, 15% AP poll, 25% CFP Committee, 50% Computer poll like BCS), The SWEET 16 NOV 15. ELITE 8 Nov 30, FINAL 4 DEC 13 ROSE BOWL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Jan 1. First 2 rounds higher seed get home games over by Nov 30. final 4 rotate 2 of remaining 5 major bowls (SUGAR< ORANGE< COTTON< FRIESTA & PEACH) the CFP off-bowl years for 3 of these 5 still have bowl games. Guaranteed 17-22 ranked teams. These other 3 bowls play Thanksgiving weekend. Realistically, those 5 bowls won't go for that so, the realistic compromise is the 6 Major bowls (Rose, Peach, Sugar, Cotton, Fiesta & Orange) rotate FINAL 4 AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. 3 Games on 3 games off BUT make it Every other year IN FINAL 4 or NATTY. so, 1 Bowl every 6 years in Natty, 2 out of 6 in final 4 & 3 out of 6 Thanksgiving weekend.
The other option is too much fan cost for travel but if major bowls can't agree, the 4 games ELITE 8 and 2 games Final 4 rotate ALL 6 in every year #1 seeds Nov 2 pick bowl structure.
BUT if you do that make the championship at either an NFL Stadium Nov 2 #1 seed choice
or have it in new billion-dollar Las Vegas stadium every year
PLease do NOT start college football any earlier than Sept 1. And NEVER have the NCG in any state that touches the Atlantic or the Pacific.
Anyone non-Big10 fan growing up east of the Mississippi never looked forward to the Rose Bowl. It was too far away and the teams weren't important. Probably better than the Liberty Bowl, though.
The tams weren’t important? How old are you, you obviously don’t remember when those two conference member were involved in the rose bowl matchup, were in the national championship hunt on a regular basis!
I'd like it better if it wasn't in LA.
Ive been saying that the rose bowl should be the natty since the bcs. It's a special place and should always be
There’s a reason it’s called the grand daddy, yes it should definitely be the championship game
No as the national championship, but the semifinals should be every New Year’s Day at the Rose/Sugar bowl
No the rose bowl is an old stadium give me it in great cities with great stadiums
The Rose Bowl and the national title at the Rose Bowl aren't the same game, people. The former is tradition, it's classic, while the latter is just luck of the draw. I mean, seriously, go watch every "1 vs 2" game that's happened there.
Wasn’t football invented in the North. Canton Ohio? Why the NFL hall of fame is there? Pretty sure Football was invented in the North😂 Also 3 of the teams left are from the North.
Great idea, except it’s extremely small. Although the Browns stadium is available…..they’re usually not doing anything that time of year!
The Rose Bowl is the oldest bowl game. It's should be the last game played. It started the rest of the bowl games.
No it shouldn't. The national championship game should rotate every year just like the Super Bowl.
I'd take the Rose Bowl any day over Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta
There are many BETTER places to host the NC, than the Rose Bowl.
Absolutely not. Make these southern boys play in the snow in January!
College football started in the northeast. Jersey. PA…
The rose bowl lost its luster in the playoff era.
doesnt matter which neutral site gets the natty. they all the same. give me more home playoff games though the environments are electric
Old antiquated poor lighting structure with a choke point golf course parking lot.
@@phmiraclecleanse I have never attended a football game an said To myself I wish the lighting was better.
And who cares about the chokepoint at the golf course. There is a charm in parking there and it’s a really cool walk through the neighborhood into the stadium.
From your post, I doubt you have actually ever been to a Rose Bowl
The Rose Bowl as the National Championship every year is dumb and will never happen because the playoffs will never conclude by New Year's Day.
I was just thinking the same thing during the game other night