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Article: Bowl alliance closer to a Rose-y scenario
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 11, 1996
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The hotly debated, oft-tabled attempt to assure a true national
championship game in college football appears closer to reality.
"We're very close to some kind of a proposal that will integrate
the Big Ten and Pac-10 into the national championship," John H.B.
French, executive director of the Tournament of Roses Association,
said Wednesday.
The issue arose again this week during meetings between
conference and bowl alliance officials in Chicago.
French says he thinks a deal could be completed "within 60
days."
The problem with the current bowl alliance and the "national
championship" game is that the Rose Bowl chose not to join the bowl
rotation - Orange, Sugar and Fiesta - that is ...