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Originally Posted by RedKingGold
Or the lowest rated Rose Bowl ever.
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It'd pretty much have to be one or the other. Either they'll have earned their way there despite a half-dozen or so programs with greater history standing in their way, or they'll have benefitted from the greatest unanimous suckfest in the history of those opposing programs, backing in because USC, Texas, Oklahoma, Penn State, Nebraska, Michigan and Ohio State all just laid over and died.
I submit that for it to be the lowest rated Rose Bowl ever, it would basically take a pair of "good enough" years combined with seven cases of epic bed-shitting from the schools I just listed.
If they earned their way in, you're probably talking about a couple of top 5 or top 10 teams in the rankings, given who they'd have had to beat to get there. I can't see that as being "the lowest rated ever."
Even if I was talking more about the intensity of the rivalry on that stage than the networks' pocketbooks.