By Chris Marler
Omaha is special. Maybe it’s not special all year round, but for two weeks in June, it gets to be the epicenter of college sports.
Whether it was Rosenblatt or TD America, or if it was simply just “Omaha,” everyone who follows college sports knows exactly what you’re referencing when that is brought up.
That’s what we need for college football. College basketball could use it too, but college football needs its own Omaha.
The way that college football has changed over the years, it’s nearly unrecognizable from what it once was. The biggest impact of all these changes have come at the cost of the fans. College football needs something that fans want. And an annual title game in Pasadena, California as the sun sets over the mountains behind the Rose Bowl is exactly that.
The Granddaddy of them all has been a staple symbol of college football, present and nostalgia, since it was built. The annual Rose Bowl game is a pilgrimage fans yearn to make every year. It’s a beacon. It’s a bucket list priority.
It’s a mecca.
That’s something college football needs: confetti falling, trophies lifting, and the faint echoes of Keith Jackson ringing through the stadium. There isn’t a college football fan in America that wouldn’t love the symbolism and significance of an annual national title being decided in Pasadena.
With all the changes that have been forced onto the fans for the last several years, why not one more that is actually supported by them?
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