Football

from 8 to 10 and finally 12 schools. It always featured te Pacific Atheletic Conference champion with a team fron the east...for many decades there was an agreement with the BIG-10 Conference to send it's champion to play there.

The time zone difference was not a factor as the parade and game were televised successully for many decades. What killed that arrangement was the smise of the PAC conference.

That's a sad fact for college Atheletics which is changing radically with NIL now and the SEC and BIG-10 becoming by far the two dominating conferences.