2025 Rose Bowl presented by Prudential | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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College Football Playoff Quarterfinal 111th Rose Bowl Game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | January 1, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Rose Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Pasadena, California | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Players of the Game | Offense: Jeremiah Smith (WR, Ohio State) Defense: Cody Simon (LB, Ohio State) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Favorite | Ohio State by 2.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Adam Savoie (ACC)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Halftime show | Oregon Marching Band Ohio State University Marching Band | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 90,732 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Chris Fowler (play-by-play) Kirk Herbstreit (analyst) Holly Rowe (sideline) Stormy Buonantony (sideline) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2025, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The 111th annual Rose Bowl game was one of the 2024–25 College Football Playoff (CFP) quarterfinals and featured top-ranked Oregon and sixth-ranked Ohio State, both members of the Big Ten Conference. This was the first time since the 1944 game in which two teams from the same conference competed in the Rose Bowl. The game began at approximately 2:00 p.m. PST. The Rose Bowl was one of the 2024–25 bowl games concluding the 2024 FBS football season.[2][3] Sponsored by the Prudential financial service company, the game was officially known as the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the 2025 Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential.