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A most unlikely score in a Pac-10 game. There had been two 13-6 games in the USC-UCLA series. One won by USC in 1945 and then UCLA returned the favor in 1946. The game in 1945 was in September as USC and UCLA played each other twice that year as travel restrictions made it a lot simpler to schedule someone crosstown rather than crosscountry.
It's the lowest scoring game of the 15 USC-UCLA games I've seen in person. USC beat UCLA 17-13 in 1985.
The last time an unranked UCLA team had beaten a USC team in the top 5 was in 1959. That year, UCLA surprised USC, which was 8-0 at the time and ranked as high as #2 in the country. The Bruins were led by Billy Kilmer at quarterback and he played the game in modified sneakers that helped out an ankle injury he had suffered while umpiring an intramural baseball game (or so it was reported). The game's only touchdown came in the fourth quarter, set up by a controversial 46-yard pass interference penalty against USC on a play that looked to be an interception by Willie Wood. But one of the side officials called one of the other USC defensive backs (there were three on the play) for pass interference. USC Coach Don Clark was perturbed. UCLA banged in a touchdown a few plays later.
USC lost the next week to Notre Dame on the road, 16-6, and Clark was let go at the end of the year and replaced by John McKay. UCLA beat Utah the following week and then hosted #1 Syracuse for the final game of the year. The Orangemen slaughtered the Bruins 36-8.
USC, Washington, and UCLA all tied for the conference title and Washington got the Rose Bowl bid on an athletic directors vote (USC was ineligible to begin with because of NCAA sanctions) and the Huskies beat Wisconsin 44-8 in Pasadena to cap off a 10-1 season.
But enough history. Enjoy the rest of the games tonight. I shall celebrate by ordering a pizza most likely.
What kind, and where from?
Chain or stand-alone?
Holy Smokes!
Trust me.
Oregon State was third at 6-3. UCLA was fourth at 5-4.
Rutgers and West Virginia tied at 23-23 with 21 seconds left. Rutgers has the ball in WV territory.
The Trilateral Commission on Prognostication, headquartered in Alexandria, Egypt, says no.
Treys are wild!
Now that it's the third, teams MUST go for two after a TD.
See 15
too bad those other guys get the rose bowl.
Mountaineers win 41-39.
Time to wait for the big OSU-UH game!
2. USC should've gone for the 2 point conversion early in the game. With a one point lead, the chart says go for two. Sure, it was early in the game, but in the end it came back to haunt them.
vr, Xei
also, i have zero interest in a ohio state-michigan rematch. florida would be leaps and bounds better, and i have little but disdain for their entire state.
not long
It's the last regular season game of the college football season. Bowl season doesn't start until the Poinsettia Bowl kicks off at 5 pm PT on December 19. TCU vs. Northern Illinois!
99% you want to be reasonable.
This is the other 1 percent.
Yay!
Pizza question: you're on the East side right? Is the Charlie's Trio pizza good? Do you go to the one on Huntington or Main? are you a fan of Casa Bianca? My wife's not a big fan so we end up getting pizza from Round Table on Fair Oaks which is surprisingly good....
Hope you savored every minute of it!
Casa Bianca has very good pizza, but it's so crowded that you have to prepare for that like a trans-Pacific airplane flight.
The outcome of the game made me forget how horribly managed the gates were at the Rose Bowl today. It took forever to get through the gates. It was shamefully bad. Although the ticket takers (scanners) are dressed in UCLA colors, I'm pretty sure they work for the Rose Bowl. They better get their act together for January 1. The USC fans are going to remember how bad it was today. If they have to put up with mismanaged gates again, there will be hell to pay.
"It's near my home" does that mean it's convenient more than tasty? :-) I'm in Highland Park not too far from there. Used to live in Alhambra. Charlie's has a sports bar section too right?
Charlie's Trio was full of people decked out in cardinal and blue. Many of them sitting together.
Are there any plans to rerun the game outside of the "Bruin Rewind" and "Trojan Rewind" on FSN?
I was really mad that almost all the highlights/flashbacks they showed were pro-Southern Cal. That bothered me.
The road to Glendale is paved with Trojans:
A) That's gross
B) Wrong, Brent
Nine.
And ABC cancelled "The Nine".
But I was on a roll there.
It's very windy at Aloha Stadium.
Bet on the Bruins to win. The Gauchos are too banged up and can't score. UCLA scores a lot.
UCLA won two football games by 4 today.
Except warmer.
Headline:
U.C.L.A. Brings Down U.S.C., and Opens Door to Title Game
Get rid of those periods in UCLA and USC!
One of its sections is called "N.Y./Region"
Meh. It's only World War I. The kids can just skip it. Kidding!
UCSB has won one NCAA championship in school history. It was in men's water polo.
You've gotten all the way to World War I? How did you manage that? Did you skip a bunch of chapters?
17 years of schooling and I don't think my teachers ever could get past World War I.
Who won that one anyway?
1. UCLA upsets USC on the McPick*
2. 4 straight homers in the bottom of the 9th at Chavez Ravine.
*Brandon Huffman on Bruin Report Online came up with this nickname.
And to answer your question in 52, ESPN Classic will be showing the game as an Instant Classic tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. PST.
I use lots of multimedia, crack lots of jokes, and am very friendly, which tricks them into thinking that they're in a relaxing class. Most other teachers are barely to WWI, and I'm almost through it.
When kids like you, you can punish them and they don't even know it!
The Instant Classic today should have been the ACC championship game!
Despite the 53 heart attacks I had during the game, it's number two for me.
Says it all. Chris Schenkel with Alzheimer's.
Big win for us today, though, over crosstown rival: crushed LMU 67-50. OJ is coming soon!
Okay. Pile on.
But I'll be darned if I ever root for the 49ers vs. the Rams...
You're kidding.
Sounds like you need to squeeze out a few tears yourself...
But I'm part of the TV generation, I experience neither highs nor lows.
The 100th post needed to be that. I just needed to be.
http://tinyurl.com/ymwxp8
The LA Times stories are uninspiring.
Haha I was just reading that.
It's been changed to "UCLA slings seven years of outrageous misfortune at USC". Plaschke quotes Rodney Van as saying he thought USC quit and that's all and pretty much everyone on USC denies (and likely everyone on UCLA not named Rodney Van would too).
Don't really care. We won. They lost.
Just imagine that I wrote something like that. I wouldn't, but just imagine it. It would feel really good.
The only thing that beats this night is the thought that Sunday brings nothing but joy.
We beat the Trojans. I love my life.
And she expends exactly no words on the player's side of why they may be reluctant to cooperate with this investigation, which is after all a creature of the Commissioner's office and whose purpose and goals are pretty hard to know.
(Not saying they shouldn't cooperate or that Mitchell does not have a noble agenda, but its certainly a complicated set of issues.)
I think I need to be more like Greg Brock.
"In their quest to remake their relief corps, the Orioles snatched Bradford from the Mets. 'This was such a good fit that the choice was easy,' Bradford said, not saying, but meaning, that the Orioles gave him a much better offer than the Mets."
Intertesting pizza talk too. I had Casa Bianca pizza last night. It is the best pizza in L.A. in my opinion. Get the sausage and garlic. They make their own sausage and that is what puts them over the top. It's really laced with anise, which I like. You have to wait though. We ordered three pizzas to go and it took an hour. They'll call you when it's ready however, so if you live fairly close, as a friend of mine does, it works out.
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