As the four-team College Football Playoff era comes to a close, the Alabama Crimson Tide is already guaranteed of having the most wins, and most games played since it was adopted in 2014.
Alabama is 9-4, with a winning percentage of .692 heading into its Rose Bowl semifinal game against Michigan on Jan. 1. The Wolverines have yet to notch their first CFP wins, losing in the 2021 and 2023 semifinals.
Michigan will also be making its first appearance in the Rose Bowl since 2007, when it was ranked third and lost to No. 8 USC, 32-18. It lost its two previous appearances before that, in 2004 and 2005, to USC and Texas, respectively, although it wasn’t favored to win either game.
Back-to-back appearances aren’t that common on Rose Bowl history, in part because for years both the Big Ten and the Pac-12, which for decades had an exclusive agreement to participate in the game that was originally titled the “Tournament East–West football game,” had a “no repeat” rule of its…
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