We are getting close to game day. The 2023 Cotton Bowl is approaching. Now that the immediacy of the emotions following the Pac-12 Championship Game has faded away, it’s easier to focus on this game and embrace it as the significant occasion it is.
This is the Cotton Bowl. It’s not the Granddaddy Of Them All — the Rose Bowl — and it’s not the College Football Playoff, but it’s still a big deal.
The Cotton Bowl is America’s fifth-oldest bowl game. It is one of the four major bowl games with a long history in college football, joining the Rose, Sugar and Orange. (The Sun Bowl was also founded in 1935, carving out a place as America’s oldest second-tier bowl game.)
The great moments in college football postseason history belong mostly (not entirely) to four games. The Fiesta Bowl became the fifth really big postseason event in 1987, when Penn State beat Miami for the national championship, but over the course of the past 85 years, the Cotton Bowl has been a central — not peripheral — source of supremely significant college football moments. USC gets to be part of that story in its matchup against Tulane on Monday.
On our new podcast, producer Ian Hest helps us preview the 2023 Cotton Bowl: USC versus Tulane in Arlington.
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