The 2024 CFB Championship Is The 1991 Rose Bowl. Nice.
Michigan and Washington have actually met in the Rose Bowl four times:
- 1978, which is long enough ago that Warren Moon was the QB of Washington.
- 1981
- 1991
- 1992
This can be moderately confusing because the 1991 Rose Bowl, which Washington won 34–14 and thus shared a national title with Miami, was played on January 1, 1992. So some might call it the “1992 Rose Bowl,” but it is the end point of the 1991 season, etc. The 1992 Rose Bowl, which Michigan won in a revenge game, was played on January 1, 1993.
These Washington teams had guys like Lincoln Kennedy, Billy Jo Hobert, Mark Brunell, and Steve Emtman (who would be the №1 pick in the NFL Draft but have a generally-disappointing pro career).
Those Michigan teams had guys like Desmond Howard, Tyrone Wheatley, and Elvis Grbac. This is pre-Brady Michigan, yes.
