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No Rose Bowls on Sunday because of some horses in 1893-the ead opotion




College football’s Rose and Sugar bowls are traditionally on New Year’s Day. That’s not the case this year. They, along with the Cotton and the just-happy-to-be-involved Outback are bumped to Monday, Jan. 2, after the Playoff and a couple other games were on New Year’s Eve.
This conveniently keeps some of college football’s biggest games from conflicting with the NFL’s final Sunday of the regular season. But college football was here many decades before the NFL anyway, and this Sunday thing is more than a century old, since before TV ratings were even a thing.
I’ll explain why this part matters in a second, but the first thing here: the organizers of Pasadena’s Rose Parade, which later birthed the Rose Bowl, decided that in 1893 they wouldn’t hold the event on Sunday. The Rose Bowl explains:
The Tournament wanted to avoid frightening horses that would be hitched outside churches and thus interfering with worship services so the events were moved to the next day, January 2. Though horses are no longer outside local churches, the tradition remains to this day.
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The parade began inviting college football teams to the first-ever bowl game in 1902, and that game’s followed the parade’s schedule. The 2016 season’s game, between Penn State and USC, will be the 14th Jan. 2 Rose Bowl.
The Rose Bowl’s remained more or less the biggest bowl for most of the time since, later becoming part of the BCS system and a key part of the College Football Playoff’s New Year’s Six group, which now means hosting semifinals once every three years. Its East Coast/Midwest vs. West Coast vibe evolved into today’s usual Big Ten vs. Pac-12 setup.
It’s such an important game that its insistence on New Year’s Day complicated the Playoff’s schedule. Two out of every three years under the original setup, Playoff semifinals were going to be held on New Year’s Eve, when many people prefer to do things besides watching TV. (The Playoff has since fixed this for future years.)
The Sugar Bowl kicks off right after the Rose these days, but has landed anywhere between Dec. 31 and Jan. 4 since it started in 1935. New Year’s Day has been its most common day, though, and its conference partners (the Big 12 and SEC) like associating it with the Rose.
Going forward, we’ll get a decent game or two before the Rose, and that’ll be the New Year’s Day schedule. Except when it’s on the day after New Year’s Day. Because some California horses couldn’t be disturbed in 1893. That’s fine.

Elsewhere!

Among Wednesday's bowl stuff: Miami setting up big 2017 expectations and Bill Snyder remaining the lord of Texas. (Do not shout at me about hyping up the Canes, please. There will be hype, whether anyone here participates in the hyping or not. This is merely a description of the coming hype. Thank you. I'm sorry.)
Never forget Bama's fight song includes a reference to beating Washington 90 years ago.
Chris Petersen's so known for trick plays, opponents have to prepare for them even as he says he rarely uses them.
Randy Edsall's back at UConn. That's weird! And uninspiring! And probably fine!
Yep, the SEC's taken a big step back. Are boring coaching hires the reason why? People like to blame it on QB development, but that just seems like a timing thing to me. The league has a bunch of promising underclassmen at the moment.
Tennessee has the most annoying fans online, according to a survey of a few dozen top recruits.
The way one recruit describes how Hugh Freeze responds to questions about NCAA troubles.
The compelling drama that was a Kansas State DB attempting to teabag a Texas A&M WR, immediately getting punched in the crotch, and later giving up a TD to that same WR.
The other greatest story of bowl season was West Virginia getting chippy with Miami at a charity event.
Today's bowls: Will Muschamp's astounding return to Birmingham, USF's audition to be most-hyped 2017 mid-major, Bret Bielema vs. the team "he" accidentally left out of "his" Coaches Poll ballot, Mike Gundy's phenomenal mullet going away for the winter, and the last ride of the mighty Buffalo.
 
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