When you grow up rooting for a Big Ten school, the Rose Bowl is like the Super Bowl. Every kid dreams of someday suiting up in their school’s colors on that hallowed ground in Pasadena, California. Trevon Pendleton was no different.
As a kid in southern Ohio, the fifth-year senior fullback can remember vividly the many times when him, his brother and cousins would reenact the latest Rose Bowl game in their backyard dreaming of the big game.
But for most, that’s exactly what it is, a dream. For Pendleton, however, his dream became reality.