Number one positioned Michigan is confronting the Alabama Dark red Tide.
Michigan’s 1,002 successes are the most in school football history, and Alabama is second with 965.
This is the fourth time the Rose Bowl has facilitated a CFP Elimination round (The 2014, 2017, 2020 seasons past), and its the subsequent time its been a No 1 versus 4; yet this is whenever the 1-4 game first is in Pasadena.
The 2020 coordinate was moved to Arlington because of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Alabama is No. 4, No. 5, tied for No. 4 and negative. 4, separately in the equivalent. The No. 1 seed is 7-2 in the CFP elimination rounds (the two No. 4 seeds that have won were Ohio State (2014-15, Sugar) and Alabama (2017-18, Sugar) Alabama has played the most CFP games with 13 (going 9-4, 6-1 in elimination rounds (five straight wins) and 3-3 in title games; Michigan is 0-2.
This is the 39th No. 1 versus No. 4 coordinate (37 AP, presently 2 CFP), with the No. 1 group possessing a 26-11-1 edge; it will be the eighteenth time the AP Nos. 1 and 5 groups get down to business, with the No. 1’s driving, 10-7. There have been only two 1 versus 4 RBGs (1968, 2021), and this is the very first 1 versus 5 Rose Bowl Game (RBG).
This is the very first Rose Bowl Game gathering between Enormous Ten and SEC schools (the 2005 game doesn’t qualify, as prospective SEC part Texas was in the Large 12 when it crushed Michigan 38-37) Consolidated, the two groups are 87-13 in their last 100 games (‘Bama 46-4, Michigan 41-9) and are 178-32 in the last 200 (UA 90-10, UM 78-22).
Michigan has not permitted a first down in 66 of 140 rival assets this year; Alabama in 57 of 149 (excluding stoop downs to end a half or game); that is 123 of 289 consolidated belongings (43%). Alabama has been positioned in 260 straight Related Press surveys, second all-opportunity to Nebraska’s 348 (1981-2002); Michigan has been in the keep going 45 (92nd on the unsurpassed rundown, however presently the fourth-longest; the Wolverines really do claim the seventh-longest in history at 160 from 1969 to 1980) This will be the fifth time Alabama and Michigan meet in a bowl game (split the initial four); Alabama is first in NCAA in history in bowl games (75) and wins (45, while Michigan is twelfth in games (50) and eighteenth in wins (21); the NCAA incorporates CFP season finisher games in the particular counts Michigan drives the Huge Ten of every 22 significant measurable classifications (second or third in 13 others) and is in 30 top 10 NCAA classifications (tops in nine); Alabama drives the SEC in three regions (second or third in 18 others) and is in eight NCAA top 10sMichigan had seven turnovers the entire season (13 games); Rice had seven against Texas State in a 43-minute range in the Specialist on call BowlMichigan was 6-0 against FBS groups with winning records, outscoring them 177-76, while Alabama was 6-1 against winning groups, with a 226-157 edge in focuses. UM outscored the other seven groups by 3100-47, UA its other five FBS groups by 164-72. The Rose Bowl Game is the untouched forerunner in bowl participation (9.56 million or more).