The 2024 and 2025 Big Ten football schedules have been released. It’s exciting and new, but we have to admit to feeling a certain amount of sadness due to the end of an era in college football.
Ohio State and Michigan probably won’t play USC in a Rose Bowl anymore. The Buckeyes and Wolverines will be in the same conference as the Trojans next year, so it’s unlikely that a College Football Playoff quarterfinal (which is when the Rose Bowl will be played) would put the two teams together.
The romance and nostalgia associated with Ohio State or Michigan playing USC in Pasadena on New Year’s Day is, unfortunately, a thing of the past.
Let’s remember the several different occasions in which Ohio State played USC in the Granddaddy Of Them All: