Indiana and Alabama chirping about last year's Rose Bowl just makes me sick. That's not the Rose Bowl. That's a corporate invitational. The real Rose Bowl was Big Ten vs Pac-10, a reward for a season's work. Now it's just another playoff site for a league that stretches from New Jersey to California. They killed the greatest tradition in the sport for TV money. We used to dream of playing there on New Year's Day, not in some random smifinal. Now the whole calendar is just a mess of unfamiliar teams. What are we even playing for anymore? A spot in a 12-team tournament to face a team you have zero history with? It's soulless.