The Rose Bowl 2026 airs on Thursday, January 1, 2026, at 4 p.m. ET on ESPN. If you don’t have cable, you can still catch the game through streaming services that carry ESPN and offer free trials.

The Indiana Hoosiers beat the Alabama Crimson Tide in the Rose Bowl, a College Football Playoff quarterfinal game: Recap, results, highlights.

PASADENA, Ca. — No. 1 Indiana football won the Rose Bowl in dominant fashion Thursday, 38-3 over No. 9 Alabama, a sentence that needs no embellishment for significance. It says everything required. Here's what I liked and disliked, and what the Hoosiers ' means.

The New Year's Day parade with Grand Marshal Magic Johnson is followed by the 2026 Rose Bowl Game between Indiana and Alabama.

The start time of the Rose Bowl game is famous for its sunset on the San Gabriel mountains going into the fourth quarter. But it may not be visible for IU's game.

Indiana and Oregon will meet in the Peach Bowl next week for a College Football Playoff semifinal. Neither school has ever won a national championship.

A CFP Rose Bowl 1-seed vs 9-seed game featuring the Alabama Crimson Tide came out 38-3 with one team having a far better passing game, far better running game, and far better defense than the other, and that team outgained the other 407-193 in yards, +1 in the turnover margin, and leading the game wire-to-wire.