RazorHawk wrote:donovan wrote:RazorHawk wrote:What many do not remember is in the 60's, I believe, the winner of the Big Ten could not go to the Rose Bowl in back to back years. The Pac8 or Pac10 was not that competitive in the Rose Bowl, so If a Big Ten team won the conference for a second straight year, the Big Ten sent the runner-up to the Rose Bowl, while the Big Ten winner did not go to a bowl game.
I think that is correct for both conferences. Neither conference, as I remember, could send the same team back to back. Not sure I am willing to buy into the not competitive reason, but as I remember the Pac 8 got beat up on a regular basis...and at our age...regularity is not a bad condition.
I don't believe the Pac 8 had that same rule. Cal went 3 straight years 1949-1951, Washington went back to back in 1960-1961. It looks like that Big Ten rule was changed in the early 70's or late 60's, with Ohio St going 4 straight years from 1973-1976.
Everyone is correct...because agreements in college football mean nothing.....this is from the Rose Bowl History.
"Both conferences had a "no repeat" rule in force for a number of years. Under this rule, any team that had appeared in the Rose Bowl game the previous season could not go again, even if they were the conference champion. The notable exceptions to this rule were Washington playing in the 1960 and 1961 games and Minnesota playing in the 1961 and 1962 games during the period when the conference agreements were in a state of flux. The Big Ten abolished this rule in 1972. The AAWU/Pac-8 had abandoned its no-repeat rule by the time Southern California played in four consecutive Rose Bowl games from 1967-1970.
Both conferences also had "exclusive agreements" with the Rose Bowl game, in the sense that member schools were not allowed to play in any other bowl game. Both conferences abolished this rule before the 1975 college football season. As a result, Michigan and USC were allowed to play in the 1976 Orange Bowl and the 1975 Liberty Bowl, respectively."