This year?s Rose Bowl features a team in cardinal red and white representing a brainy school in the heartland against a team in cardinal red and white representing a brainy school out West. It pits a city often called the Berkeley of the Midwest against the actual Berkeley?s fancier, cantankerous California neighbor.
Both Wisconsin and Stanford have more to brag about in Nobels and Pulitzers than they do in Heismans or national football titles. Yet in many ways they?re as far apart stylistically as they are geographically.