UCLA Football Thread

[Justin]

8 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Is this one better than the Josh Rosen comeback? I think so. This one was just too improbable.

Much, much better. This team was a complete trainwreck just a few hours ago. On the verge of being called the worst team in the country. Now everyone is asking "is this the start of something?"

[Lou]

 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

I'm imagining being a Cougar fan, leaving the game when it was 49-17 to go to the bar, sure that the game was in hand. I don't know how you blow a 32-point lead with less than two quarters to go.

[RallyMo]

That was a crazy ass game. Fun. It reminded me of the games that the Sonny Dykes Cal teams would get in, including a similar game against WSU up there. Bunches of points just coming out of nowhere, people staying up late and when the Cougs were involved: they'd Coog it.

[fan_since79]

“If we play like we did in the first half, there isn’t anybody that can beat us,” Mike Leach said. “If we play like we did in the second half, anybody can beat us. It’s about as simple as that.”

 

[tdawg87]

1 second before this game started, the PAC-12 was 84-0 when scoring 60+ points. They're now 85-1.

[Lou]

9 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

Bruins outscored Wash St 50-14 from midway thru the 3rd quarter.

 

We had scored 42 total points in the previous 3 games. 

[RallyMo]

32 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

“If we play like we did in the first half, there isn’t anybody that can beat us,” Mike Leach said. “If we play like we did in the second half, anybody can beat us. It’s about as simple as that.”

 

Yep.

[fan_since79]

The 50 points scored by UCLA in the 2nd half were the most by a Pac-12 team since Washington scored 56 vs. Whitman in 1931.

 

[Lou]

in case you missed it

 

 

[St1ck]

I turned the game off at halftime. 

[Lou]

6 minutes ago, st1ckboy said:

I turned the game off at halftime. 

You coug'd st1ck'd it 

[St1ck]

I wonder how long Minshew, and his jorts stayed at the game. I'm guessing he left at half time as well to hit the bars, and plow through some local Pullman ass. 

[Tank]

8 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

The 50 points scored by UCLA in the 2nd half were the most by a Pac-12 team since Washington scored 56 vs. Whitman in 1931.

 

“Ah yes, I remember it well.”

@Bruce Nye

[Lou]

7 hours ago, st1ckboy said:

plow through some local Pullman ass. 

gross 

[Tank]

Stick was making a livestock joke.

[St1ck]

7 minutes ago, Lou said:

gross 

Only if you don't know any better. I'm guessing a dude that makes his own jorts doesn't. 

[nate]

I went to bed at half time and almost forgot to check the score in the morning.  Glad I recorded it, what an insane game.

[Lou]

I still can't get over that game 

[Lou]

If you want to stream it:

 

[Blarg]

I may just do that today. Near the end of the first half when UCLA picked off the dropped pass, then gave it right back near the Washington red zone, I was done. I had to get up at 5am and just couldn't justify staying up to watch the Bruins go 0-4. Turned out to be a hell of a game and worth watching a replay. 

[Jay]

Last Saturday's game reminded me of another epic collapse involving UCLA and WSU.

Only that time the shoe was on the other foot:

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/30/sports/unbeaten-ucla-is-upset.html

The brief reign of U.C.L.A. as the No. 1 college team in the nation came to an end here today as the Washington State University Cougars upset the pass-happy Bruins, 34-30.

Three costly personal fouls and two key turnovers by U.C.L.A., ranked first in The Associated Press poll and second in the New York Times's computer ranking, gave Washington State the lift it needed to score 28 second-half points in front of 51,970 fans in the Rose Bowl.

The Cougars, unranked in the news agency polls, were 20-point underdogs entering the game.

''I felt coming in we really had a chance to win,'' said Coach Dennis Erickson of Washington State (5-3). ''Even when we got behind, 27-6, the kids didn't let down.''

 

[nate]

This stat is pretty crazy.

UCLA is the only team in the past decade to come back to win after trailing by at least 32 points -- and it has done it twice in three years. The rest of FBS is 0-1,370.

[Angel Oracle]

Turns out that the 50 point second half surpassed the 49 point second half (49-0 margin) that USC put up on the Domers in 1974, which was the previous most points scored in the second half by a PAC-12 team since 1931.

Saturday night's game had to be one of the craziest CFB games ever.    I can't fathom 130 pts being scored in a CFB game.   

iirc, the NFL record was set 53 years ago, 113 pts by Washington and the NY Giants (72-41 Washington).    Rams/Chiefs last season threatened that record.

[nate]

This team is such garbage.