This year’s Rose Bowl will feature a legendary comeback, no matter what happens on the field between USC and Penn State.
A college football icon is coming home.
Announcer Keith Jackson, whose voice was the quintessential Saturday soundtrack for generations, will be at the game as a spectator. He hasn’t attended a college football game since the Bowl Championship Series title game at the Rose Bowl on Jan. 4, 2006, when Texas beat USC. That was the final game of his broadcasting career.
“I have a longstanding relationship with Penn State,” Jackson said by phone from his Sherman Oaks home.