With the evolving landscape of college football, some suggest making the iconic Rose Bowl the annual host for the national championship game, highlighting its historical significance and unique atmosphere.
You want to talk name, image and likeness? There’s nothing more representative of college football than the Rose Bowl game. In a shape-shifting sport, one persistently rounding into a junior version of the NFL, the tradition of the Rose Bowl is a sacred point of stability. For decades it was a destination as opposed to a whistle stop on the way to a national championship. Why not look at this sun-splashed sanctuary the way the British Open has St.
Andrews in the rotation — or rota — of courses? Put a national championship here once every five years. The Old Course is the birthplace of golf, and this place is the birthplace of the “bowl” game, a reference to the shape of this very venue. If the Rose Bowl is a church, then Joel Klatt is a preacher. “I don’t think it should be a rota, I think this should be the national championship every single year,” said Klatt, the former Colorado quarterback turned Fox college football analyst. “Something that college football is missing that every other sport has is a destination, something that is a culmination of the sport that everybody points to and says, `That’s what we want. That’s where we want to go.’ The NFL has the Super Bowl and that can move around. “But as we morph into the idea of old college football and new college football, trying to find the parts of old college football that can become special in new college football is very important. The Rose Bowl game could be our Super Bowl.” It felt that way Wednesday, with half the bowl bathed in Oregon green and half in Ohio State red. Looming over the stadium’s north rim, the majestic San Gabriel mountains. “You don’t get this anywhere,” said legendary Ohio State running back Archie Griffin, the only two-time Heisman Trophy winner and someone who made four consecutive trips to the Rose Bowl from 1972 to 1975. Looking down to the field from a suite before kickoff, Griffin pondered making the Rose Bowl a regular host of national championship game
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