The Rose Bowl in Pasadena is dropping its traditional fireworks show this year and switching to drones for the first time in the history of its popular Independence Day celebration. Friday night ...

The Rose Bowl held its annual AmericaFest Celebration on Monday, July 4, 2022. This year’s event featured a live performance from Drake Milligan, TNT Freestyle Motocross and a firework show.

The 2026 Rose Bowl will kick off approximately an hour earlier than it traditionally has. ESPN and the College Football Playoff announced the three quarterfinal games on New Year’s Day will ...

Straying from the traditional 2 p.m. kickoff time, the Rose Bowl game will instead begin an hour earlier so all three New Year's Day College Football Playoff quarterfinal games are placed "in an ...

The Granddaddy of Them All will kick off a little earlier this New Year’s Day. The 2026 Rose Bowl is set to start at 1 p.m. Pacific Time, not 2 p.m. as it has in years past, the College Football ...

The Rose Bowl sits empty on Jan. 1, 2025. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images The Rose Bowl—once the bulwark of little-c conservatism in college football—has made another concession to modernity.

As part of the College Football Playoff’s adjustment of kickoff times for its Jan. 1 quarterfinal tripleheader, the 2026 Rose Bowl will kick off an hour earlier at 4 p.m. ET (1 p.m. PT), which ...