How college football’s seismic shifts are impacting Rose Bowl Game and giant New Year’s Day parade

Pasadena’s Rose Bowl hosts the college football game known as "The Granddaddy of Them All." (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

It was 1946 in the Crown City – the proud home of the Rose Bowl and the Rose Parade.

The parade’s theme rang out that year, “Victory, Unity, Peace” – a theme sparking the birth of new aspirations for a war-weary nation.

Pasadena’s Rose Bowl – later known as “The Granddaddy of Them All” – and its giant spectacle of a parade were right at the center of this new era...