Rose Bowl Live

The Rose Bowl has the honor of hosting No. 2 Oregon and No. 3 Florida State in the first College Football Playoff semifinal. Keep refreshing this live blog (click below) throughout the game for score updates, stats, highlights and whatever else we find around the web to enhance your viewing or gametracking experience.

8:50 p.m. ET -- After 29 straight victories, Florida State's run has come to an end. Oregon advances to the first College Football Playoff championship game after a 59-20 win. The Ducks scored 34 straight points to blow open a tightly contested game and turn it into a display of this program's speed and execution on both sides of the ball. Oregon 59, Florida State 20 FINAL

Mark Helfrich said the team would enjoy this win for "a few hours," but promised that they had a plan in place to start preparing for either Alabama or Ohio State.

8:39 p.m. ET -- We have moved to the point in the beatdown where the broadcast is turning to President Barack Obama for insight.

In case you missed. ESPN just ran this quote from POTUS on Mariota pic.twitter.com/zeFgiYc4MG

— Josh Krulewitz (@jksports) January 2, 2015

8:32 p.m. ET -- Florida State punted back to Oregon, bringing up a point we haven't addressed here yet: there have only been three punts in this game so far, and just one by Oregon. Obviously, FSU's turnovers and Oregon's touchdowns have done of a fine job flipping the possession between teams, but not a lot of punts needed.

Now for those of you who enjoy your Odell Beckham Jr. memes...

— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) January 2, 2015

8:24 p.m. ET -- Thomas Tyner caps another touchdown drive for the Ducks, and at this point you wonder if Mark Helfrich is going to put in the backups. Florida State's five turnovers have been turned into 34 points and the Seminoles are showing no signs of getting back into this game. Oregon 59, Florida State 20 10:13 4Q

8:15 p.m. ET -- After Winston's interception, Oregon extends its lead again with a 23-yard Marcus Mariota touchdown run. Oregon 52, Florida State 20 13:56 4Q

8:10 p.m. ET -- Jameis Winston gets a talking-to from Jimbo Fisher.

Rose Bowl Game

Rose Bowl Game is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 (New Year's Day) at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California.[2] When New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the game is played on Monday, January 2 (14 times now). The Rose Bowl is nicknamed "The Granddaddy of Them All" because it is the oldest bowl game. It was first played in 1902, and has been played annually since 1916. Since 1945, it has been the highest attended college football bowl game.[4] It is a part of the Tournament of Roses "America's New Year Celebration", which also includes the historic Tournament of Roses Parade.

Beginning with the 2015 game, the official name for sponsorship is the "Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual". Vizio was the previous sponsor, since 2012; prior sponsors included AT&T, Sony, and Citi. In 2015, the game will also be officially known as the "College Football Playoff semifinal at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual".

The Rose Bowl Game has traditionally hosted the conference champions from the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences (or their predecessors), but due to its past and present membership in several consortiums that seek to determine a national champion in Division I FBS, in 2002, the Rose Bowl began to infrequently deviate from its traditional match-up in order to facilitate championship games. In 2002 and 2006 (2001 and 2005 football seasons), under the Bowl Championship Series system, the Rose Bowl was designated as its championship game, and hosted the top two teams determined by the BCS system. Beginning in 2015, the Rose Bowl is part of the College Football Playoff system, and will host one of its semi-final games every three years. During non-Playoff years, the Rose Bowl will revert to a Pac-12/Big Ten matchup.

ESPN Rose Bowl

ESPN Rose Bowl 2018 is at it again with their way-too-early predictions, this time they try their hand and predicting the match-ups for the 2018 Bowl Season and the College Football Playoff. Yesterday we looked at ESPN’s Mark Schlabach and his Top 25, where your UCLA football team was ranked #11. This time, the Bruins are getting a little less love with bowl projections.

For these predictions, Schlabach along with Brett McMurphy, listed every potential bowl match-up, including UCLA and 7 other Pac-12 teams. Here is how they predict the Bruins will do among the Conference of Champions next Bowl Season. The Cotton Bowl will serve as one of the semi-final College Football Playoff games.

Though it is possible that the Bruins could drop to a lower bowl after taking a beating from one of the toughest divisions in college football, I have a different opinion. and it starts with the #BruinRevolution.

Everything head coach Jim Mora has gotten his hands on since he got to Westwood has turned to gold. Because of that, UCLA Football will field a team that will be the best in Mora’s short tenure. That will then result in the Bruins getting to the Cotton Bowl or the Rose Bowl.