USC played Penn State in the 1923 Rose Bowl, which was the first bowl game in school history. The Trojans were selected for the game, despite finishing behind and losing during the regular season to California, because the Golden Bears did not want to make a post-season trip to Pasadena three years in a row.
Can you imagine Cal doing that today? Or even making a Rose Bowl?
Hey Scott, AJax won the Thorpe Award.
No. No.
Wasn’t there a Cal head coach who vowed to give up tequila until the Bears made it back to the Rose Bowl? His streak might be more than 30 years now.
What was he thinking?
If only Sark made that vow!
Cutty Sark at it AGAIN!
The three consecutive USC Trojan Rose Bowl Games for the Classes of 1966, 1967, and 1968 were all “once in a lifetime” amazing experiences for me. For Indiana and Purdue, I’m sure it felt like a once in a lifetime treat. The loudest, most moving Rose Bowl singing of the National Anthem was, hands down, sung by the Northwestern fans during the 1995 ? Rose Bowl Game against our Trojans. The echo bounced back to the USC students section (my son gave us tickets) not once but twice. Absolutely Breathtaking. Unforgettable. Do you Hillary people thick that today’s Chicago Area crowd would give a d@mn about our National Anthem after 20 years of Obama’s community organizing and the incompetent incomprehensibly evil reign of their manical Democrat Mayor ? Do ya ?
43 days and counting “I’m gonna play me some golf!”
Who would have guessed 21 years ago that our country in 2016 would be so divided it couldn’t even agree to stand and sing the National Anthem as one?
That’s the progressive left – create falsehood where none exists, create tension and silence any counter by accusing the opponent of being ‘racist’. Ignore the flood of illegal aliens crossing the border to lock them down for their votes in perpetuity.
Allowing a schister to run the country into the ground for the last eight years as well
Hmm baby now that ‘la bruja’ is gone fun watching her scream about fake news…..anything fake about Perv Island and Cousin Bill?
Stay focused, Alvacado. This is about football.
The stench of the decaying and defacating corpse I give all of you the ‘left’…
If only John our John….why? Bobbie…Teddie…Michael…Jimmah…….Barakska Chevrolet (I got play me some golfiska!…I am the con fool and a Marxist-Leninist…I be Prez. Kool Daddio…I so love the morons at every college campus)…yeah baby
Poor Troller is a Sore Loserman.
Why so angry?
Anybody take a knee!
Somewhere in the Chicago Area, a Northwestern fan is probably lamenting that today’s USC fans are surely nothing but leftists, LGBTs, and Mexicans.
UCLA Troll, Westwood Rob, It’s just you, a Fake News culprit. Donald Trump, our “America First” President Elect.
I admit, I’m the one who gave Wolf the fake news about Houston hiring Kiff.
It was the leftist USA Today.
In the national election it showed that the electoral votes went commie, socialist, LGBT, and every other nut organization in the State of California.
Babble on….
schlumper47, put a lid on it.
Poor Troller is still in mourning over her hero Hillary losing.
The bad part is we backed into this Rose Bowl apparence .
Actually, the bad part is your little charade pretending to be a USC fan.
Typical little gutty Troll remark. The Rose Bowl Committee selected the #9 USC Trojans over the #10 Colorado Buffs because the PO Committee felt USC is the better team. Both the AP and Coaches polls also ranked USC ahead of CU, because USC beat both UW and CU. It was unanimous, which is why USC is in the RB – where you little gutties are banned every Jan.
And today, Adoree Jackson wins another Thorpe Award for USC and is named as another USC 1st team All-America, while you 4-win, no AA bruins, sit home licking your wounds with contemplating your navels.
The bad part is really that ucla football is a complete dumpster fire with show cause coaches and The Chimp in charge of a bunch of guys who can’t catch or play very well.
Sorry little gutty. Not really. USC owns ucla, just like it says permanently in the McKay Center.
The only way we got in was Washington going to CFB ! Otherwise we are off to the Alamo Bowl. Use to be we aspired to winning the Pac 12 and going forward! Hope we reinstill that
That’s not the way the system works little gutty. You oughta know – the system always has you on the sidelines because you little gutties never win the PAC.
You think SC didn’t aspire to win the PAC? Get off the drugs. But we will definitely take the Rose Bowl, USC’s home away from home. Eat your heart out little gutty. It’s gonna be a whole new generation of young footballers wanting to be the next Adoree Jackson in Cardinal & Gold. Bye bye. You’re looking smaller and smaller in our rear view mirror.
You’re seriously still going to pretend to be a Trojan?
This has been going on for a long time. He’s fully committed to his separate reality where he can escape being a bruin and undoubtedly gets off jerkin’ the board around.
825 comments, everyone knows his game and he continues to play.
Just coming off three years of loss school, two coaches that were boys, and a team that finally got traction, yes, USC is starting to acend where they belong, either the Rose Bowl or the playoff every year.
Besides, the RB, advertisers, and the other revenue making machines want the Trojans in the RB. The fans and the tv’s will stay at and on the game. If Colorado shows up, the game is over by the first quarter and most fans leave and the tv’s turn to reruns of previous rose bowl games
Just like your RUINS backed into the PAC12 South Division title in 2011?
50-0 baby! Nothing sets up yet another bruin loss like a 50-0 bootlicker. One of my favorites.
I was there..Favorite game! Lol
Did SC even have to punt?
I did feel a little bad for Slick Rick though. He never knew what hit him and suddenly his over-the-wall coaching career was officially over. No amount of Kumbaya could fix it.
Feel bad for Ricky? He calls a time out and Kiffin goes for the end zone and the crowd chants, WE ARE SC! 50-0!
That was a different lopsided victory over UCLA. Carroll was still coach when Slick Rick called the ill advised timeout.
Correct, Barkley threw to Woods on a 41 yd TD, to make it 50-0 with 13:56 left and the SC crowd went wild. The two teams almost went to blows as the SC fans shouted “We Are SC!”
The u call timeout I call touchdown was Barkley to Damian Williams for 48 yards. Pete Carroll called the play.
Never feel bad for ugly or Rick. Reminder, Johnny Cheetin’ Wooden cheated all the way and he said he had no problem with what he did.
I think they did once.. It was brutal!
I checked, SC punted twice.
Good research..
History lesson, the last time SC was in the Rose Bowl was ’09. Pete Carroll v Joe Paterno, after that, Pete was gone and two years later Sandusky was charged with child molesting. Wow have these schools come back. Beautiful.
Hope history repeats itself yet again with an easy victory. No need for a nailbiter, as I’m afraid it might be.
Jack, I believe USC is too quick in the receiver position. That will be the difference. My opinion
There was controversy in the 1967 Rose Bowl as UCLA was bypassed for USC despite winning the AAWU and having a 9-1 record verses USC at 7-3 and a win over USC 14-7. Sometimes UCLA must think they are the Red-Headed StepChild.
Full story:
The AAWU (unofficially known as the Pac-8) champion Trojans came into the game with a 7–3 record (4–1 Pac-8), ranked #10. They were controversially awarded with the Rose Bowl bid over UCLA, despite UCLA’s #5 ranking, 9–1 record, and 14–7 victory over USC. Because of a flaw in the schedule, USC played one more conference game than UCLA and had a 4–1 Pac-8 record to UCLA’s 3–1. Prior to the UCLA-USC game, it was widely assumed that the winner would go to the Rose Bowl. USC was voted in by the AAWU Athletic Directors, before Notre Dame annihilated USC 51–0 in the Trojans’ final game. Many people thought awarding USC the Rose Bowl was to make up for 1964 when USC and Oregon State tied for the AAWU title. In that year, it was assumed that if USC upset #1 Notre Dame in its final game, they would get the nod over Oregon State. USC upset Notre Dame, 20–17, but Oregon State was awarded the Rose Bowl berth over USC based on a better overall record (8–2 vs. 7–3). The coach of Oregon State in 1964 was Tommy Prothro, who happened to be the coach of UCLA in 1966. Another factor may have been an ankle injury sustained by UCLA star quarterback Gary Beban. USC started the season 6–0 before dropping three of their last four games going into the matchup with Purdue.
Thanks Traveler. It was awhile ago. Forgot most it.
Cal was always strange.
WOLFIE- WRONG AGAIN!!!!! HOUSTON hires OC Major Applewhite for head coaching job…
Now you are going to wear the CJ Spiller and Kiffin gaffes for a while! hahaha
You mean the leftist USA Today is. He linked to their story. More of that fake news.