usc has won the most rose bowl games.
usc has won the most rose bowl games.
who has won the most rose bowl games?
usc
at the start of the 1982 nfl season, with the oakland raiders scheduled to move into the coliseum, ucla decided to relocate its home games to the rose bowl stadium. the bruins went on to play two straight rose bowl games in their new home stadium, the 1983 rose bowl and the 1984 rose bowl. ucla has participated in five rose bowl games since moving to the stadium. the stadium is the host of the ucla–usc rivalry football game on even numbered years, alternating with the coliseum. in the first rivalry game at the stadium between ucla and usc in 1982, usc fans sat on the west side of the stadium and ucla fans sat on the east side of the stadium, mirroring an arrangement that existed when the teams shared the coliseum. both teams also wore their home uniforms. in 1984, usc fans were moved to the end zone seats, which ended the tradition of shared stadium. because of the shared arrangement, and the participation of usc in a number of rose bowl games, both schools have winning records in each other's home stadium. the bruins travel 26 miles from campus to pasadena to play home games, but only 14 miles to their biggest road game at usc every other year.
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with the growth of bowl games, it became difficult to determine a national champion in a fair and equitable manner. as conferences became contractually bound to certain bowl games (a situation known as a tie-in), match-ups that guaranteed a consensus national champion became increasingly rare. in 1992, seven conferences and independent notre dame formed the bowl coalition, which attempted to arrange an annual no.1 versus no.2 matchup based on the final ap poll standings. the coalition lasted for three years; however, several scheduling issues prevented much success; tie-ins still took precedence in several cases. for example, the big eight and sec champions could never meet, since they were contractually bound to different bowl games. the coalition also excluded the rose bowl, arguably the most prestigious game in the nation, and two major conferences—the pac-10 and big ten—meaning that it had limited success. in 1995, the coalition was replaced by the bowl alliance, which reduced the number of bowl games to host a national championship game to three—the fiesta, sugar, and orange bowls—and the participating conferences to five—the acc, sec, southwest, big eight, and big east. it was agreed that the no.1 and no.2 ranked teams gave up their prior bowl tie-ins and were guaranteed to meet in the national championship game, which rotated between the three participating bowls. the system still did not include the big ten, pac-10, or the rose bowl, and thus still lacked the legitimacy of a true national championship. however, one positive side effect is that if there were three teams at the end of the season vying for a national title, but one of them was a pac-10/big ten team bound to the rose bowl, then there would be no difficulty in deciding which teams to place in the bowl alliance "national championship" bowl; if the pac-10 / big ten team won the rose bowl and finished with the same record as whichever team won the other bowl game, they could have a share of the national title. this happened in the final year of the bowl alliance, with michigan winning the 1998 rose bowl and nebraska winning the 1998 orange bowl. without the pac-10/big ten team bound to a bowl game, it would be difficult to decide which two teams should play for the national title.
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