<P> Because of the agreement made in 1946 by what are now the Big Ten and the Pac - 12 Conferences (and their respective predecessors), this was Georgia's lone appearance in the Rose Bowl game until the agreements that starting in the 1998 season, the Rose Bowl would be part of any national championship format . That agreement meant Georgia would not appear until the 2018 game, when they were the third seed in the College Football Playoff in the year the game was a semifinal game . For the 2008 Rose Bowl, a hopeful matchup was examined that Georgia might play USC, but the Sugar Bowl would not give up the Bulldogs . </P> <P> During World War II, UCLA left end Milt "Snuffy" Smith was critically injured when his crew was struck by a missile . When he was about to be declared a hopeless case and to be abandoned, a medic saw his "Rose Bowl, 1943" engraved wrist watch he was wearing and shouted, "This is one guy we've got to save ." Smith recovered after 18 months of hospitalization . </P> <P> Georgia would not return to the Rose Bowl game until January 1, 2018--an absence of 75 years . </P>

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