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The 1980 Rose Bowl was It was the 66th edition of the college football bowl game, played on Tuesday, January 1, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.The USC Trojans, champions of the Pacific-10 Conference, defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes, champions of the Big Ten Conference, 17–16.
The 1985 Rose Bowl Game was a postseason college football bowl game between the USC Trojans of the Pacific-10 Conference and Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference, held on New Year’s Day in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
The 1969 Rose Bowl was the 55th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Wednesday, January 1.The game was a de facto national championship game, as both teams were competing for the Associated Press (AP) title.
Ohio State is 5-0 and looked at as a lock for the College Football Playoff if they win Saturday’s Big Ten title game. On the flip side, USC is 5-0 and not generating much playoff buzz.
USC had won the last 7 games in the series, with Ohio State's last win coming in the 1974 Rose Bowl. This is the eighth time that the schools met in a bowl game. [1] The previous seven bowl meetings were all in the Rose Bowl, most recently in 1985—a game the Trojans won, 20–17. The Buckeyes defeated the Trojans 24–7. [1]
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If USC beats Utah in the Pac-12 title game on Friday night, the Trojans will be in the College Football Playoff. Georgia remained at No. 1 while Michigan moved up to No. 2 and TCU moved up to No. 3.
This was the second of three consecutive Rose Bowls involving these two teams, and USC won the other two. Ohio State stopped a four-game winning streak by the Pac-8 (now Pac-12), but the next Big Ten victories were seven and fourteen years away. The Buckeyes' next Rose Bowl win came in January 1997, stopping previously undefeated Arizona State.