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The 2009 Rose Bowl, the 95th edition of
the annual game, was a college football bowl game played on Thursday, January 1, 2009 at the same-named stadium in Pasadena,
California.[5] Because
of sponsorship by Citi,
the first game in the 2009 edition of the Bowl Championship Series was
officially titled the "Rose Bowl Game presented by citi".
The contest was televised on ABC with a radio broadcast on ESPN Radio beginning at
4:30 PM US
EST with kickoff at 5:10 PM. Ticket prices for all seats in the
Rose Bowl were listed at $145. The Rose Bowl Game was a contractual
sell-out, with 64,500 tickets allocated to the participating teams
and conferences. The remaining tickets went to the Tournament of
Roses members, sponsors, City of Pasadena residents, and the
general public.
Scoring 24 unanswered points in the second
quarter, the Pacific-10 Conference Champion University of Southern
California Trojans defeated the Big Ten Conference co-champion, the
Pennsylvania
State University Nittany Lions, 38-24, for their third
consecutive Rose Bowl victory (in their fourth consecutive
appearance, having lost the 2006 BCS title game to the Texas Longhorns).
The victory gave the Trojans their 24th Rose Bowl championship, the
most by any team in the country. Quarterback Mark Sanchez scored
five touchdowns, one rushing and four passing.
Prior to the game, the Pac-10 conference had a 4-0 record in
bowl games this season with wins by Arizona, Cal, Oregon, and Oregon State.
The Trojan win gave the Pac-10 a perfect five out of five games,
which was the only perfect conference bowl record of the season.
The Big Ten conference last won a Rose Bowl game in the 1999 season.
Teams
The teams participating in the Rose Bowl Game were announced on
Sunday, December 7, by the Pasadena Tournament of
Roses football committee. Big Ten co-champions, Penn State,
coached by Joe
Paterno, were picked to play against Southern California, the
champions of the Pac-10, coached by Pete Carroll.[3] Penn
State earned its bid via a head-to-head tiebreaker, beating Ohio State, 13–6
in Columbus, Ohio,
on October 25, 2008. The Men of Troy earned their way in by
defeating UCLA 28-7 on December 6,
2008. USC was designated as the home team, wearing dark jerseys and
using the east bench on game day.
The 2009 game marked the first time since 2004 that the
traditional teams—the champions of the Big Ten and the
Pac-10—squared off at the Rose Bowl, because at least one league
champion played in the BCS Championship in each the previous four
years. In 2004, Big Ten champion Michigan met Texas, as USC played Oklahoma in the designated BCS Championship Game game that year, the
Orange Bowl. The following year, USC met Texas in the
game, which was designated as that year's BCS National Championship
contest; Big Ten champion Penn State played in the Orange Bowl against Florida State. In 2007 and 2008, the runners-up of the Big Ten were
sent to this game, since the champion, Ohio State, participated in
the newly-established separate BCS Championship Game: the
Wolverines played in 2007 and Illinois would do so
the following year; both teams played (and lost to) the
Trojans.
Both teams lost one game during the 2008 regular season. Penn
State was defeated by Iowa (24-23) and
Southern California lost to Oregon State
(27-21). USC and Penn State had faced two common opponents in the
regular season. Both teams defeated Ohio State and
Penn State beat Oregon State
prior to the Beavers' defeat of the Trojans.
Penn State had appeared in the Rose Bowl twice before, losing to
the Trojans 14-3 in 1923 in their only previous meeting in
"The Granddaddy Of Them All", and winning in 1995 over 1994
Pac-10 champion Oregon 38-20, the latter game
capped an unbeaten season in which Penn State finished
#2 in both major polls. The Trojans have played in the Rose
Bowl more times than any other team and made its fourth consecutive
appearance in 2009. The two teams have faced each other eight
times, with each team winning four games. The Kickoff Classic
XVIII on August 27, 2000, in Giants Stadium at East Rutherford, New
Jersey, was the last time they met: the Trojans defeated the
Nittany Lions, 29-5.
Scoring
summary
The Rose Bowl, several days before the 95th edition of the
"Granddaddy of Them All".
First
quarter
- USC — Williams, D. 27 yard pass from Sanchez, Mark (Buehler,
David kick), PSU 0 - USC 7
- PSU — Clark,
Daryll 9 yard run (Kelly, Kevin kick), PSU
7 - USC 7
Second
quarter
- USC — Sanchez, Mark 6 yard run (Buehler, David kick), PSU 7 -
USC 14
- USC — Buehler, David 30 yard field goal, PSU 7 - USC 17
- USC — Johnson, Ronald 19 yard pass from Sanchez, Mark (Buehler,
David kick), PSU 7 - USC 24
- USC — Gable, C.J. 20 yard pass from Sanchez, Mark (Buehler,
David kick), PSU 7 - USC 31
Third
quarter
Fourth
quarter
- PSU — Williams, D. 2 yard pass from Clark,
Daryll (Kelly, Kevin kick), PSU 14 - USC 31
- USC — Johnson, Ronald 45 yard pass from Sanchez, Mark (Buehler,
David kick), PSU 14 - USC 38
- PSU — Kelly, Kevin 25 yard field goal, PSU 17 - USC 38
- PSU — Norwood,
Jordan 9 yard pass from Clark, Daryll (Kelly, Kevin kick), PSU
24 - USC 38
Game
notes
- Mark Sanchez
became the third quarterback to pass for more than 400 yards in a
Rose Bowl Game, with 413 yards. The others were Wisconsin’s Ron Vander
Kelen (401 yards, 1963) and Oregon’s Danny O'Neil (456 Yards, 1995).
- Sanchez set a Rose Bowl record for completion percentage, at
80%.[2]
- USC is the only team in history to have won three straight Rose
Bowl games.[2]
- The Lathrop K. Leishman Trophy honoring the 2009 Champion was
created by Tiffany.
- Penn State was the only team in 2008 to score more than 7
points against USC in the second half.
- This marked USC head coach Pete Carroll's fifth appearance and
Penn State head coach Joe Paterno's second appearance in the Rose
Bowl Game.[3]
- BCS Commissioners took "appropriate responsive actions" against
Penn State for two media access contracts violations - failure to
give pre-game interviews to ABC broadcasters and
provide after-game locker room access.[6]
References
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