Bruin Post Game Notes Against Boise State
September 04, 1999 | Football
Sept. 4, 1999
1) When UCLA has opened its season at home, it has won its last four games and six of its last seven.
2) UCLA ends the decade with a 7-3 record in home openers during the 1990's.
3) UCLA has now won its last 11 regular season home games.
4) UCLA head coach Bob Toledo increases his coaching record to 26-10. He is now 14-3 at the Rose Bowl during the regular season.
5) With 5:30 left in the first half, redshirt freshman quarterback Cory Paus threw his first collegiate touchdown pass to junior tight end Gabe Crecion, who made his first touchdown reception.
6) That touchdown pass from Paus made him the first Bruin quarterback to throw a touchdown pass in his first game since Bret Johnson threw a touchdown pass to Reggie Moore in the 1989 season opener against Tennessee.
7) With his 65-yard touchdown pass to Randy Hakes in the third quarter, UCLA quarterback Drew Bennett becomes the first Bruin quarterback to throw a touchdown pass in his first start since Wayne Cook threw a 10-yard pass to J.J. Stokes in UCLA's 1992 opener against Cal State Fullerton.
8) Hakes' touchdown reception in the third quarter was his second career reception, both were touchdown receptions from Bennett.
9) Bennett has thrown for a career-high 120 yards on a career-high eight completions and 16 attempts.
10) Julius Williams' second-quarter 53-yard interception return for a touchdown was the longest by a Bruin since Abdul McCullough returned an interception 98 yards for a touchdown at Arizona State in 1994. Williams' interception return for a touchdown is UCLA's first since Ryan Roques' 17-yard return against Houston in 1998.
11) Serving as honorary captains for Boise State were Carolyn Gusman and Art Reyna, parents of freshman Paul Reyna, who passed away late last month.
Post-game Quotes
UCLA head coach Bob Toledo:
"I'm glad to win our first football game. We looked like a young
football team out there. Minus 14 football players, you realize you are
young."
"It wasn't a pretty football game - there were a lot of turnovers. I was sorry to see Boise score at the end because the defense missed out on a shutout."
"I was concerned about running the football up the middle but I thought we ran it pretty well. But we're going to have to do a better job running the ball, or we're going to struggle."
"We planned to rotate the quarterbacks - they made mistakes, and they'll learn from their mistakes. Of concern was that we ran at them and didn't do as well as I would have liked. The kicking game was adequate, we had some good punt return situations."
"We planned to rotate the quarterbacks every three series, and we did that. That was the plan coming in."
"We're not going to change anything (for next week's game) - we'll do exactly what we did this week. I don't think we'll be intimidated, it's going to be us against them. We'll go out and use it to our advantage."
Boise State head coach Dirk Koetter:
"I'm proud of the way our defense played, but we can't turn the ball
over to UCLA. We lost to a good team that played better than we did. We
wanted UCLA to know we were physical enough to be there, and I think we
did that."
"Number one, I thought we showed in the second half our running backs ran much better. We went with a more basic game plan in the second half, we should've done that in the first half."