The Alabama and Michigan football teams visited Disneyland Wednesday, the first event leading to the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day.
The Disneyland visit by the Rose Bowl teams continued a tradition begun in 1959, four years after the park opened.
Another Rose Bowl tradition will be renewed Thursday when Michigan participates in the Beef Bowl at Lawry’s The Prime Rib. Rose Bowl teams have dined at the Beverly Hills restaurant annually since 1956, except for 2020 and 2021 when the event was canceled because of restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Alabama is set to participate Friday.
The Beef Bowl is billed by organizers as college football’s most enduring pre-bowl game tradition. It is older than all but the Rose, Orange, Sugar, Sun, Cotton, Gator and Citrus bowls.