For most college football teams and fans there is a level of prestige and honor that comes with saying that you have played in the Rose Bowl, but for the UCLA Bruins the Rose Bowl is simply home. After spending several seasons in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum where the UCLA Bruins shared home turf rights with rivals the USC Trojans the UCLA Bruins football team moved to their program in 1982 to Pasadena, California to play their home games in the historic Rose Bowl Stadium.
While most of the off-season practices, training camps and scrimmages take place in either the Acosta Athletic Complex or Spaulding Field the UCLA Bruins roster would tell you that the Pasadena is home and the Rose Bowl is where they belong. Rose Bowl Stadium is also the host however of the famous BCS series Rose Bowl game, the oldest and most famous college football bowl game. The 96th Rose Bowl game will be played on January 1, 2010. This year there is great speculation that the UCLA Bruins may return home after the regular season to play in the post season game, with former Pac 10 leaders taking on difficult schedules and a recruiting class full of talent many Bruins fans are eager to see how far their team can go this season.
One thing is for sure, any game played in the Rose Bowl is a good one and should not be missed.
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