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The Rose Bowl, one of just four American football stadia to have been designated by the United States Department of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark, a stadium in the Los Angeles suburb Pasadena, California, United States, is best known for hosting annually an eponymous National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I bowl game and concomitant Tournament of Roses Parade and for having hosted by iterations of the National Football League's championship game.
Opened in 1922, the stadium saw its first Rose Bowl the next year and hosted the matchup between the champions of the Pacific Ten and Big Ten Conferences each year from 1947 to 1998. In 1998, the Rose Bowl game joined the Bowl Championship Series and the stadium has since hosted various elite teams; in January 2006, the BCS title game ending the 2005 season was contested at the Rose Bowl, as the University of Texas, in a contest described by many television commentators as the best championship game ever, claimed a three-point victory over the University of Southern California.