Rose Bowl Information
The 2008 Rose Bowl was a great game as both teams competed with hard work and determination. The Rose Bowl was held at Pasadena, California that featured two magnificent teams composed of the University of Southern California Trojans and University of Michigan’s Wolverines. The Michigan Wolverines had a hard time during the 2007 Rose Bowl. The University of Southern California Trojans used a variety of offenses, basically on first down, to put Michigan Wolverines in second-and-long and third-and-long situations. In addition to this, the offenses also caused two big second half turnovers.
The Rose Bowl of 2007 was full of excitement as players like Brian Cushing, Dwayne Jarrett as well as John Booty showed outstanding performances. The Rose Bowl tickets also had successful record of sales as the Rose Bowl fans and supporters waited for the grand event. One of the Rose Bowl event highlights was Dwayne Jarrett’s performance as he out jumped a pair of Michigan Wolverines defenders for a 29-yard gain midway through the fourth quarter. Furthermore, after a few plays, John Booty threw his fourth touchdown pass to Steve Smith, who finished with seven catches for 108 yards. The thrilling Rose Bowl made the University of Southern California Trojans took control during the early third quarter when, after three straight handoffs to Mike Hart, the Michigan Wolverines tried a screen pass that Chad Henne threw into a crowd, only to see it land in the hands of Lawrence Jackson. The previous season of the Rose Bowl ended with a 32-18 victory of the University of Southern California Trojans over the Michigan Wolverines.
Though the University of Southern California Trojans was quite frustrated because they fail to pursue their third straight BCS title game due to an uncharacteristically flat effort against the University of California, Los Angeles; the Rose Bowl of 2007 gave them much inspiration to go further and strive for more. Both teams of the University of Southern California Trojans as well as the Michigan Wolverines had an excellent time of spending it as a qualifying team in the Rose Bowl event.
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The Rose Bowl is called the "Grandaddy" of all the Bowl games. It is perhaps the most anticipated college football game ever.
There was no celebrating a traditional matchup in the Rose Bowl — at least by the participants. Those associated with the game are overjoyed. Southern California and Michigan will meet New Year‘s Day in the granddaddy of ‘em all, with each playing in the game for the third time in four years.
"I have to say that along the way, we had some doubts as to whether we were going to be able to achieve that. We‘re very excited about having these good friends back in the game," Dorger said, pointing out that USC and Michigan ranked 1-2 in Rose Bowl appearances.
USC and Michigan had their chances. The Trojans (10-2) entered the weekend with the inside track, but a 13-9 loss to crosstown rival UCLA on Saturday knocked them out.
In the Associated Press poll, which is not used in the BCS standings, Florida also passed Michigan, moving into second but held just a three-point advantage. USC fell from second to eighth. The Wolverines were third and the Trojans fifth in the BCS standings.
"I don‘t know exactly what the voters were thinking. You‘d have to ask them."
But, he added, there‘s no way he could feel anything negative about playing in the Rose Bowl, even if he didn‘t agree with the way it came about.
USC will oppose Michigan in the Rose Bowl for the eighth time. The Trojans have a 5-2 record against the Wolverines in the game including a 28-14 triumph three years ago, when they were bypassed for the BCS title game but won a piece of the national championship.
Carr said his players were OK, but disappointed, when he gave them the news.
Trojans coach Pete Carroll has said from the time he became USC‘s coach following the 2000 season that the team‘s No. 1 goal every year is to win the Pac-10 title and play in the Rose Bowl.
Carroll said he understood how Carr felt since USC was bypassed for the national championship game three years ago despite being ranked No. 1 in the human polls.
The BCS system has been tweaked since that time.
"I know it‘s challenging to have to live with the results of it," Carroll said. "I admire his respect for this game and this matchup.
"They‘re loaded, they‘ve had a great season. They came up a couple points short of winning their conference championship."
USC has played in 30 previous Rose Bowl games, going 21-9, while Michigan has played in 19, going 8-11. The Wolverines beat Stanford 49-0 on Jan. 1, 1902 in the first Rose Bowl.
The Rose Bowl contracted with the Big Ten and Pac-10 before the 1947 game. Representatives of those conferences played from that time until the 2002 game, when Miami beat Nebraska to win the national championship.
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