The Rose Bowl committee demanded/requested to be part of the national championship.
I agree there. The Rose Bowl Committee has only itself to blame. Aligning itself with the BCS cartel, has only made the Rose Bowl one more game that’s NOT the national championship and therefore not worth the energy of any sensible college football fan not attached to either team in it during the years the bowl is taken. And saying you will get a better game is like saying the teams won’t all come down with the flu and not be able to play. Shoulda, woulda....
And if it wasn’t for the money and that the committee was afraid wit was going to lose its lucrative ABC television contract by their applying pressure to change to a “bigger” audience, which it didn’t, it wouldn’t have occured.
rwood