The 1932 college football season saw the Michigan Wolverines win the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as national champion under the Dickinson system. Because the "Big Nine" conference didn't permit its teams to play in the postseason, however, the Wolverines were not able to accept a bid to the Rose Bowl. As such, the Pasadena game matched the #2 and #3 teams, USC and Pittsburgh, with the USC Trojans winning the East-West matchup 35-0.
Colgate University became the last team to shut out all of its opponents, by an average score of 29-0 in nine games. Though the '32 Red Raiders were described as "unbeaten, untied, unscored upon...and uninvited", the Rose Bowl was the only postseason bowl game at the time.
Major conferences that existed in 1932 were the Western Conference(today's Big Ten), the Pacific Coast Conference (now the Pac-10), the Big Six (forerunner of the Big 12), the Southwest Conference, and the Southern Conference (whose members later formed the SEC and the ACC).
Read more about 1932 College Football Season: September, October, November, December, Colgate University, Conference Standings, Conference Leaders, Dickinson System, Final Dickinson Rankings, 1933 Rose Bowl
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