# 2025 Rose Bowl

The 2025 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2025, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The 111th annual Rose Bowl game was one of the 2024–25 College Football Playoff (CFP) quarterfinals and featured top-ranked Oregon and sixth-ranked Ohio State, both members of the Big Ten Conference. This was the first time since the 1944 game in which two teams from the same conference competed in the Rose Bowl. The game began at approximately 2:00 p.m. PST. The Rose Bowl was one of the 2024–25 bowl games concluding the 2024 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Prudential financial service company, the game was officially known as the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the 2025 Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential.

## Background

The 2025 Rose Bowl was a quarterfinal game for the 2024–25 College Football Playoff (CFP). Oregon, being the top-ranked team in the final CFP rankings and winner of the Big Ten Championship Game, received a bye in the new 12-team format of the CFP and was selected to play in the bowl game.
Sixth-ranked Ohio State, the number eight seed in the tournament, defeated Tennessee in the first round, 42–17, to advance to this game.
This was the 12th all-time meeting between Ohio State and Oregon, as well as their first post-season meeting since the inaugural 2015 CFP National Championship game in Arlington, which Ohio State won 42–20. It was also their third meeting in the Rose Bowl, following the 1958 and 2010 editions of the bowl from when the game traditionally featured champions of the Big Ten and Pac-12 (or that of their predecessors). The Buckeyes won both times, but the Ducks won the teams' meeting earlier in the 2024 season, a Week 7 game at Autzen Stadium, 32–31.
With the win, Ohio State advanced to the CFP semifinals, facing the winner of the Peach Bowl, Texas, in the Cotton Bowl Classic.
Due to a medical issue, sportswriter Art Spander ended a 70-game streak of attending Pasadena-based playings of the Rose Bowl.
| First round | First round | First round | Rose Bowl | Rose Bowl | Rose Bowl |
| | | | 1 | Oregon | 21 |
| 8 | Ohio State | 42 | 8 | Ohio State | 41 |
| 9 | Tennessee | 17 | | | |

## Teams
### Oregon Ducks

This was the ninth Rose Bowl appearance for the Ducks, who entered the game with a 4–4 record in prior appearances. Their most recent prior appearance was the 2020 game, a win over Wisconsin. Oregon entered the game as the Big Ten Conference champions with an 13–0 record (9–0 in conference), their first season in the conference.

### Ohio State Buckeyes

Ohio State was 9–7 in prior Rose Bowl appearances, with their more recent prior appearance coming in the 2022 edition, a three-point victory over Utah. The Buckeyes came into this game with an 11–2 record following their 42–17 first-round win over Tennessee. Ohio State's losses to Oregon and archrival Michigan were by a total of four points.

## Game summary

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| No. 8 Ohio State | 14 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 41 |
| No. 1 Oregon | 0 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 21 |
at the Rose Bowl • Pasadena, California
* Date: Wednesday January 1, 2025
* Game time: 2:12 p.m. PST
* Game weather: Sunny • Temperature: 70 °F (21 °C) • Wind: 6 mph (9.7 km/h) north
* Game attendance: 90,732
* Referee: Adam Savoie
* TV announcers (ESPN): Chris Fowler (play-by-play), Kirk Herbstreit (analyst), Holly Rowe and Stormy Buonantony (sidelines)
* Box score
Scoring summary :
| Quarter | Time | Drive | Drive | Drive | Team | Scoring information | Score | Score |
| Quarter | Time | Plays | Yards | TOP | Team | Scoring information | Ohio State | Oregon |
| 1 | 14:00 | 3 | 75 | 1:00 | Ohio State | Jeremiah Smith 45-yard touchdown reception from Will Howard, Jayden Fielding kick good | 7 | 0 |
| 1 | 7:31 | 3 | 53 | 1:05 | Ohio State | Emeka Egbuka 42-yard touchdown reception from Will Howard, Jayden Fielding kick good | 14 | 0 |
| 2 | 14:50 | 10 | 63 | 3:53 | Ohio State | 46-yard field goal by Jayden Fielding | 17 | 0 |
| 2 | 10:28 | 2 | 48 | 0:43 | Ohio State | Jeremiah Smith 43-yard touchdown reception from Will Howard, Jayden Fielding kick good | 24 | 0 |
| 2 | 8:47 | 1 | 66 | 0:12 | Ohio State | TreVeyon Henderson 66-yard touchdown run, Jayden Fielding kick good | 31 | 0 |
| 2 | 2:59 | 10 | 43 | 4:50 | Ohio State | 36-yard field goal by Jayden Fielding | 34 | 0 |
| 2 | 0:00 | 10 | 75 | 2:59 | Oregon | Traeshon Holden 5-yard touchdown reception from Dillon Gabriel, 2-point pass to Justius Lowe good | 34 | 8 |
| 3 | 8:55 | 11 | 75 | 6:05 | Oregon | Noah Whittington 2-yard touchdown run, Atticus Sappington kick good | 34 | 15 |
| 3 | 2:19 | 6 | 56 | 3:16 | Ohio State | TreVeyon Henderson 8-yard touchdown run, Jayden Fielding kick good | 41 | 15 |
| 4 | 10:00 | 10 | 51 | 3:36 | Oregon | Traeshon Holden 27-yard touchdown reception from Dillon Gabriel, 2-point run failed | 41 | 21 |
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### Statistics

Team statistical comparison :
| Statistic | Ohio State | Oregon |
| First downs | 20 | 15 |
| First downs rushing | 7 | 2 |
| First downs passing | 12 | 13 |
| First downs penalty | 1 | 0 |
| Third down efficiency | 4–11 | 8–19 |
| Fourth down efficiency | 0–0 | 2–3 |
| Total plays–net yards | 57–500 | 70–276 |
| Rushing attempts–net yards | 31–181 | 28–-23 |
| Yards per rush | 5.8 | -0.8 |
| Yards passing | 319 | 299 |
| Pass completions–attempts | 17–26 | 29–42 |
| Interceptions thrown | 0 | 0 |
| Punt returns–total yards | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Kickoff returns–total yards | 1–3 | 0–0 |
| Punts–average yardage | 5–202 | 8–319 |
| Fumbles–lost | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Penalties–yards | 2–14 | 3–13 |
| Time of possession | 29:05 | 30:55 |
Ohio State statistics :
| Buckeyes passing ||||||
| | C–A | Yds | TD–INT |
| Will Howard | 17–26 | 319 | 3–0 |
| Buckeyes rushing ||||||
| | Car | Yds | TD |
| TreVeyon Henderson | 8 | 94 | 2 |
| Quinshon Judkins | 17 | 85 | 0 |
| Jeremiah Smith | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Will Howard | 5 | -3 | 0 |
| Buckeyes receiving ||||||
| | Rec | Yds | TD |
| Jeremiah Smith | 7 | 187 | 2 |
| Emeka Egbuka | 5 | 72 | 1 |
| Gee Scott Jr. | 1 | 30 | 0 |
| TreVeyon Henderson | 3 | 20 | 0 |
| Carnell Tate | 1 | 10 | 0 |
Oregon statistics :
| Ducks passing ||||||
| | C–A | Yds | TD–INT |
| Dillon Gabriel | 29–41 | 299 | 2–0 |
| Ducks rushing ||||||
| | Car | Yds | TD |
| Jordan James | 7 | 14 | 0 |
| Jayden Limar | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Noah Whittington | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Tez Johnson | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| Dillon Gabriel | 12 | -43 | 0 |
| Ducks receiving ||||||
| | Rec | Yds | TD |
| Traeshon Holden | 7 | 116 | 2 |
| Terrance Ferguson | 5 | 71 | 0 |
| Tez Johnson | 5 | 32 | 0 |
| Noah Whittington | 6 | 30 | 0 |
| Justius Lowe | 2 | 27 | 0 |
| Jordan James | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| Gary Bryant Jr. | 1 | 6 | 0 |