2024 Rose Bowl
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| College Football Playoff Semifinal 110th Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 1, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Rose Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Pasadena, California | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Michigan by 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Chris Fowler (play-by-play), Kirk Herbstreit (color), Holly Rowe (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2024 Rose Bowl is a college football bowl game that is scheduled to be played on January 1, 2024, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The 110th annual Rose Bowl, the game will be one of the playoff semifinals and will feature the 4th ranked Alabama Crimson Tide of the SEC and the 1st ranked Michigan Wolverines of the Big Ten, with the winner to face the winner of the Sugar Bowl in the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship game, which is at NRG Stadium in Houston. The game is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. PST.[1][2] The Rose Bowl will be one of the 2023–24 bowl games concluding the 2023 FBS football season. Sponsored by Prudential Financial, the game will be officially known as the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential.
Teams
The game will feature Michigan, undefeated champion of the Big Ten, and Alabama, one-loss champion of the SEC. This will be the sixth meeting between the two teams, with their most recent meeting being in the 2020 Citrus Bowl, where Alabama beat Michigan by a score of 35–16. Alabama leads the overall series 3-2.[3]
Michigan
Michigan went undefeated in their 12-game regular season. Due to punishment from 2020 Covid-19 dead period recruiting violations and the Michigan Wolverines football sign-stealing scandal, they were without their head coach Jim Harbaugh for six of those games. But they still managed to defeat their arch-rival Ohio State 30–24, allowing them to advance to the 2023 Big Ten Football Championship Game, where they defeated Iowa 26–0. Entering the game, Michigan was one of just four undefeated teams in the nation at 13–0.
The Wolverines lost in their previous three Rose Bowl appearances, in 2004, 2005 and 2007. Their last Rose Bowl win came in 1998, where they defeated Washington State by a 21-16 score to win their most recent national championship.
Alabama
Alabama went 11–1 in their 12-game regular season. A 34–24 loss in Week 2 to Texas followed by a narrow victory over USF caused them to tumble down the rankings to No. 13 in the AP poll, but they managed to recover and reach a record of 10–1 entering their Iron Bowl game against Auburn. Alabama won the game, 27–24, thanks to a 31-yard touchdown pass from Jalen Milroe to Isaiah Bond on 4th-and-goal. In the 2023 SEC Championship Game, they defeated Georgia, 27–24, ending the latter's 29-game winning streak.
This is Alabama’s eighth Rose Bowl appearance (1926, 1927, 1931, 1935, 1938, 1946, 2021). They are 5-1-1 in the Rose Bowl.
Game summary
| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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| No. 4 Alabama | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| No. 1 Michigan | - | - | - | - | 0 |
Statistics
| Statistics | ALA | MICH |
|---|---|---|
| First downs | ||
| Plays–yards | – | – |
| Rushes–yards | – | – |
| Passing yards | ||
| Passing: comp–att–int | –– | –– |
| Time of possession |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
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| Alabama | Passing | ||
| Rushing | |||
| Receiving | |||
| Michigan | Passing | ||
| Rushing | |||
| Receiving |
Hall of Fame
Prior to the game, Cliff Montgomery, Columbia; Kirk Herbstreit, ESPN and Ohio State; and Lincoln Kennedy, Washington, will be inducted to the 2023 class of the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.[4]
References
- ^ "110TH ROSE BOWL GAME". Old Pasadena. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
- ^ "The 110th Rose Bowl Game will be a College Football Playoff Semifinal". Rose Bowl Game. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
- ^ "Winsipedia: Michigan vs. Alabama". Winsipedia. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
- ^ "Kirk Herbstreit, Lincoln Kennedy and Cliff Montgomery to be Inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame Class of 2023". Rose Bowl Game. Pasadena Tournament of Roses. Retrieved October 24, 2023.