‘The Rose Bowl Game traditionally hosted the conference champions from the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences’
that exclusivity ended when the Rose Bowl entered into the Bowl Championship Series in 1998, logically allowing it to enter into the championship rotation...
‘And before you tell me that they were the best qualified, then elaborate on why #1 and 2 got beat if they are so sure.’
because they got beat less than anybody else in the Power Five...
‘because they got beat less than anybody else in the Power Five...’
I think I misread the post the above was responding to...
“because they got beat less than anybody else in the Power Five...”
Apparently the power five shouldn’t be called that. And for the media to say four teams out of the thousands that play NCAA ball, are the elite, is very short sighted.
Here is an article by Jerry Palm of CBS sports:
Notice that most of the conferences improved upon their pregame expectations. And when one and two this year were erased by lower rated teams, couldn’t this mean that other lower rated teams could also have done it? And if so, how many? The media is playing a game of who gets the money here, and it is not deciding who is the NCAA champion. Just who they want it to be. In the old west it was called stacking the deck.
rwood