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Report: 2021 Rose Bowl seems headed out of Pasadena

Could the 2021 Rose Bowl be played in a different venue? It seems so.

The Grandaddy of Them All Bowl Games, the Rose Bowl, will have a new home for 2021, almost certainly, per a Los Angeles Times report.

The game is scheduled to be one of the two College Football Playoff semifinals along with the Sugar Bowl.

Per the LA Times:

A decision is imminent on keeping the game in Pasadena or moving it to a site out of state that would allow the family and friends of participants to attend. The Tournament of Roses has been rebuffed in its two appeals to state health officials to allow 400-500 spectators in the 95,000-seat stadium for the Jan. 1 game.

According to individuals familiar with the discussions, the idea of keeping the game in Pasadena has lost steam. It’s up to the Pasadena City Council to decide whether to allow the “Rose Bowl Game” moniker to be used by another location.

A possible landing spot would be AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys. However, that stadium is set to host the Cotton Bowl Classic on Dec. 30, which would make the turnaround a challenge

The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down virtually all of Southern California, which has become the epicenter of the virus.

Tournament of Roses officials made a concerted effort for family and friends to attend the game, but received a two-page letter from the state Thursday night denying the latest appeal.

“We understand the honor and tradition that takes place in Pasadena in participating in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day,” wrote Erica Pan, acting state health officer at the California Department of Health. “However, there are no boundaries to this virus.”

The 1942 Rose Bowl was the 28th edition played on Jan. 1. Originally scheduled for the Rose Bowl it was moved to Durham, North Carolina, due to fears about an attack by the Japanese on the West Coast of the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Oregon State Beavers of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) defeated the host Duke Blue Devils of the Southern Conference 20–16 in Duke Stadium.

CFB experts predict Alabama’s 2020 bowl game

ESPN’s college football experts make their projections for the national bowl games after the 2020 season. The both of them have Alabama n…

The Alabama Crimson Tide are undefeated and on a steady course toward the 2020 College Football Playoff. However, that doesn’t mean they aren’t going bowling on their way to National CHampionship No. 18.

ESPN college football experts Kyle Bonagura and Mark Schlabach made their picks as to where Alabama, and numerous other programs, will be playing their bowl games.

Bonagura’s predictions:

Sugar Bowl (CFP semi-final, New Orleans): Alabama vs. Clemson

National Championship (Miami): Alabama vs. Notre Dame

Schlabach’s predictions:

Sugar Bowl (CFP semi-final, New Orleans): Alabama vs. Notre Dame

National Championship (Miami): Alabama vs. Clemson

There are still two games to play in the 2020 regular season, so it is still early to make predictions. However, If they stay on the path they are on now, it is likely one of the above projections becomes reality.

ESPN experts predict Alabama’s 2020 bowl game

ESPN college football experts make thir guesses at predicting where Alabama and others will play their 2020 Bowl games.

As Week 3 of the SEC season came to a close, and the BIG 10 is one week closer to their start date, ESPN’s Kyle Bonagura and Mark Schlabach offer their 2020 college football bowl game predictions.

Their predictions range all the way from the New Mexico Bowl, which they predict will feature Nevada and UTSA, to the College Football Playoff, and eventually, the National Championship.

Bonagura and Schlabach offer their top four that will make the College Football Playoff. Those teams are Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State and Georgia.

The one-seed Clemson Tigers will face off against the four-seed Georgia Bulldogs in the Allstate Sugar Bowl Playoff Semifinal in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California will feature two-seeded Alabama and three-seed Ohio State in a rematch of the 2015 College Football Playoff semifinal Sugar Bowl where the Buckeyes got the best of the Crimson Tide.

The prediciton is finalized with an infamous National Championship matchup that fans have seen time and time again. Held in Miami, Florida, Nick Saban will try to earn National Championship ring No. 7 against Dabo Swinney and the Clemson Tigers, according Bonagura and Schlabach.

What lacks from the projection is a winner. However, when it comes to the history behind the Alabama-Clemson matchup, it’s safer to flip a coin than to try to predict the outcome of that game.