LOS ANGELES — After Alabama and Indiana arrived in Los Angeles on Monday evening, Rose Bowl week moved to Day 2. It was Rose Bowl Media Day on Tuesday, as players and coaches from both teams were made available for interviews.

This is Indiana's second straight season reaching the College Football Playoff, and the Hoosiers are hoping it goes better than last year when they lost a first-round game at Notre Dame. Alabama did not make the 12-team field last season, but is a playoff regular, and came back from a 17-0 deficit to beat No. 8 Oklahoma in the first round.

Undefeated Big Ten champion Indiana is playing in the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1968 and finds itself three wins away from cementing the unlikeliest rise in recent college football history with a national title.

The oldest college football bowl is part of the 2025-2026 college football playoff quarterfinals and will see the no. 1 seed take on the no. 9 seed.

Indiana football receiver Omar Cooper Jr. explained his injury vs. Ohio State and described the "very hard" feeling of sitting and watching the Hoosiers' win.

Omar Cooper Jr.'s game-winning catch for No. 1 Indiana against Penn State is the kind of play that gets remembered forever, especially if the Hoosiers go on to claim their first national title.

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