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Article: Purists decry new-look Rose Bowl
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 18, 2002
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LOS ANGELES--Illinois grad Amanda Massucci watched with sadness as
Miami players celebrated their Rose Bowl berth.
The game known as the Grandaddy of 'Em All is different this
season.
"It should have been Illinois," Massucci said.
Instead, for the first time since 1946, teams other than the Big
Ten and Pac-10 champions will play in the Rose Bowl. Miami (Big East)
and Nebraska (Big 12) will meet there in the Bowl Championship Series
title game.
"What does Miami, or Nebraska, know about the specialness of the
Rose Bowl? Nothing," Massucci said. "I wish the BCS would stop this
nonsense and keep the Rose Bowl for the Big Ten and the Pac-10."
By agreement, those conferences played in every Rose ...