Top 5 greatest Rose Bowl games in college football history

The 2018 Rose Bowl between Oklahoma and Georgia was one of the best games of the year. What’re the top five Rose Bowls ever?

It’s no secret that the Rose Bowl is one of the most sacred events in all of American sports, dating back to the first Rose Bowl game in 1902 between the Stanford Cardinal and the Michigan Wolverines. Throughout the course of time there have been a select few that make seemingly regular trips to Pasadena, teams such as USC, Michigan, Washington, Stanford and Ohio State have all made 14 or more trips to “The Granddaddy of Them All”.

Every once in a while, teams from outside the Pac-12 and the Big Ten find themselves smelling the roses. Alabama leads all non-tie in appearances with six, their last coming in 1946. Then there are the schools have become lost in the history of the game. Washington & Jefferson College made one appearance back in 1922 and Ivy League schools such as Brown, Penn, Harvard and Columbia have all traveled to Pasadena for the annual game.

But among all of these teams that have appeared in this college football tradition, which of them have made for some of the most memorable games in the bowl’s 104 year history? Here’s what the list looks like.