The Ohio State football team may not have reached their ultimate goals of winning another Big Ten championship and getting into the College Football Playoff, but it will be headed to Pasadena to participate in the Rose Bowl for the 16th time in program history.
We won’t quite call it a consolation prize, but there are much worse places to go for the postseason than at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains in the Los Angeles area. If you’ve been, then you get it. If you haven’t been, do what you can to get there. You won’t be sorry, I promise.
It is of course not Ohio State’s first rodeo in So Cal. In fact, OSU trails only USC and Michigan in the number of appearances all-time. But simply getting there only tells part of the story. What have teams done once they made it to sunny California?
We’re most concerned about Ohio State and the Big Ten on this free website, so that’s what we’re going to focus on. We decided to put together a listing of most Rose Bowl wins by Big Ten programs. Some may surprise you, others probably won’t. And yes, we’ll include teams even if they weren’t a part of the conference at the time and note it as such.