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Washington is the first Pac-12 team to ever play in the Sugar Bowl
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:15 am
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:15 am
That's pretty wild. And in the last year of the conference.
The only western teams to play in the Sugar Bowl are:
- Santa Clara (1937, 1938)
- Saint Mary's (1946)
- Wyoming (1968)
- Air Force (1971)
- Hawaii (2008)
- Utah (2009) (was in the MWC at the time)
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Cole Cubelic
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Washington is the 1st Pac-12 team in 89 years to play in the @SugarBowlNola
The only western teams to play in the Sugar Bowl are:
- Santa Clara (1937, 1938)
- Saint Mary's (1946)
- Wyoming (1968)
- Air Force (1971)
- Hawaii (2008)
- Utah (2009) (was in the MWC at the time)
This post was edited on 12/4/23 at 9:28 am
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Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:17 am to SummerOfGeorge
Damn.
For some reason I thought when UW played Bama a couple years ago, that was the Sugar Bowl...
It's hard to keep up with all of Bama's successes
For some reason I thought when UW played Bama a couple years ago, that was the Sugar Bowl...
It's hard to keep up with all of Bama's successes
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:17 am to teamjackson
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For some reason I thought when UW played Bama a couple years ago, that was the Sugar Bowl...
Peach - they were a really fun fanbase to mingle with, too.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:18 am to SummerOfGeorge
The Rose affiliation for eons prevented this.
Hawaii played in it though.
Hawaii played in it though.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:19 am to SummerOfGeorge
Hawaii too
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:19 am to SummerOfGeorge
It’s literally just a game.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:20 am to momentoftruth87
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It’s literally just a game.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:22 am to SummerOfGeorge
Should be a great game. Johnson and McMillan looked really good for the Huskies. I'm taking the over in this one. 
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:24 am to timdonaghyswhistle
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The Rose affiliation for eons prevented this.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:26 am to momentoftruth87
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It’s literally just a game.
Don’t ever contribute anything other than irrelevant drive by trash posts?
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:26 am to SummerOfGeorge
I feel like Air Force should count too. Not sure what is considered “West” though.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:27 am to mckibaj
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I feel like Air Force should count too. Not sure what is considered “West” though.
Good catch, missed them
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:30 am to Kang of Memphissippi
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trash
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Kang of Memphissippi
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Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:33 am to SummerOfGeorge
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The Rose affiliation for eons prevented this
I'm not sure why anybody is laughing at this post.
PAC didn't allow any team to play in a bowl outside the Rose Bowl until the 1975 season.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:36 am to Gunga Din
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I'm not sure why anybody is laughing at this post.
PAC didn't allow any team to play in a bowl outside the Rose Bowl until the 1975 season.
Same, it's definitely a big reason why.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:41 am to Gunga Din
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I'm not sure why anybody is laughing at this post.
The "affiliation" didn't prohibit northern teams from accepting bids to southern bowl games, segregation did. Integrated teams generally didn't want to bench their black players to play in the South, which the southern teams demanded.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:48 am to WildTchoupitoulas
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The "affiliation" didn't prohibit northern teams from accepting bids to southern bowl games
Who said it did? The Pac 10 wasn't a "northern" conference.
Their champion for many many years went to the Rose like the SEC champion went to the Sugar.
The Rose in non-playoff rotation years still had dibs on the highest Pac 10 team available after the Playoff was started.
This post was edited on 12/4/23 at 9:49 am
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:14 am to timdonaghyswhistle
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Who said it did?
You did
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The Pac 10 wasn't a "northern" conference.
It kind of was...
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Their champion for many many years went to the Rose
Not exactly, a team couldn't appear two years in a row even if they repeated as champions.
Did you know that the PAC 8 Conference didn't form until 1968?
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The Rose in non-playoff rotation years still had dibs on the highest Pac 10 team available after the Playoff was started.
None of this explains why a PAC team never played in the Sugar.
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