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Joel Klatt explains why Rose Bowl should be championship venue in expanded College Football Playoff

Andrew Peters

By Andrew Peters

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Joel Klatt believes one of the most famous stadiums in all of football needs to be a championship venue in the expanded College Football Playoff.

Klatt believes the Rose Bowl is the pinnacle of college football and therefore should be a part of the biggest college football event of the year.

“In the new playoff, I think that the Rose Bowl should always be the championship venue. In college football everybody’s goal should be: ‘I wanna go to the Rose Bowl’. It should be the destination, very similar to how Omaha is the destination for college baseball. What do you wanna do if you play college football? You wanna go to the Rose Bowl.”

While the Rose Bowl is one of the prestigious New Year’s Six bowls, it hasn’t been included in the College Football Playoff. With the expansion coming in the 2024 season, the Rose Bowl will be one of the venues.

This season, the Playoffs will take place at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, Georgia and the Fiesta Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona. No. 1 seed Georgia takes on No. 4 seed Ohio State in the Peach Bowl and No. 2 Michigan takes on No. 3 TCU in the Fiesta Bowl. Both games will be played on Dec. 31.

Andrew Peters