Congrats and good luck to the Broncos. Stanford and SCU had played in fall 2021, 2023 and 2024, but not this season. It seems like an obvious annual "rivalry" game to me, given that Stanford wants to travel as little as possible in November and December.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)