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Bruins Welcome Ducks for Homecoming Tilt
October 17, 2017 | Football
LOS ANGELES -- UCLA (3-3, 1-2) returns to the Rose Bowl for a Homecoming battle against Oregon (4-3, 1-3) on Saturday, Oct. 21 at 1:00 p.m. The game will be televised by Pac-12 Networks. The Bruin IMG Radio Network will radio broadcast the contest, which will also be aired over Sirius/XM, uclabruins.com and tunein.com and the TuneIn App. Gary Beban and Maurice Jones-Drew will be the Honorary captains for the game. The 2017 season marks the 50th anniversary of Beban's Heisman Trophy campaign. Jones-Drew will be inducted into the UCLA Hall of Fame this weekend.
The Bruins, who are looking to halt a six-game overall series skid against the visitors from the Northwest, have won once in the last five meetings contested in the Rose Bowl. That victory came by the score of 16-0 on November 24, 2007. In the interim, Oregon has captured wins in the last meetings played in the Rose Bowl in the 2014 (30-42) and 2009 (10-24) seasons.
In the last meeting between the teams, a 2014 contest played before over 80,000 fans in Pasadena, Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota guided the Ducks to a 42-30 win. Mariota ran for 75 yards and two scores and threw for 210 yards and a couple of touchdowns. UCLA, which racked up 553 yards of offense (328 on the ground, 190 by Paul Perkins) scored the final 20 points of the game on two Brett Hundley scoring passes and a touchdown run by Nate Starks, but it was not enough.
IN ADDITION--
UCLA will introduce the nine new members of the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame for 2017 at halftime and honor Gary Beban on the 50th anniversary of his winning the 1967 Heisman Trophy during the game. The HoF inductees are: Toby Bailey (men's basketball), Robin Beauregard (women's water polo), Monique Henderson (track & field), Maurice Jones-Drew (football), Bob Larsen (track & field/cross country coach), Kristen Maloney (gymnastics), Brandon Taliaferro (men's volleyball) and Gina Vecchione (softball). In addition, football coach and athletic department administrator Bobby Field will be inducted for his extraordinary service. Beban led the Bruins to a 24-5-2 record in his three varsity seasons and was a charter member of the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame class includes seven Bruins who have totaled 17 national championships between them as either a player or coach (Bailey, Beauregard, Henderson, Larsen, Maloney, Taliaferro and Vecchione); three Olympians who combined for five medals (Beauregard, Henderson, Maloney); and a three-time Pro-Bowler (Jones-Drew).
THE WATCH LIST--
• A win versus Oregon would be the 600th overall in UCLA football program history and fourth straight in the Rose Bowl this season.
• Josh Rosen ranks first in the Pac-12 in passing yards (2,354), passing yards per game (392.3) and total offense (390.3). His 495 total yards at Memphis is the most by a P12 player this season, as is his 491 passing yards total vs. Texas A&M. Rosen holds three of the top four passing yard totals put up by P12 players this season. UCLA's 8.5 yards per passing attempt mark leads the P12.
• Darren Andrews, who is 3rd in the nation in touchdown catches with seven, entered the all-time top 10 list at the school in career receptions against Colorado. He is currently tied for sixth with Devin Fuller (2012-15) and Nelson Rosario (2008-11) at 146 career catches. Andrews needs 8 more catches to reach the school's all-time Top 5 and 233 additional yards to move into the top 10 in receiving yards.
• S Jaleel Wadood leads the team with 40 tackles (14th in P12); LB Kenny Young (37) and S Adarius Pickett (35) are next; CB Nate Meadors has five pass break-ups; Jaelan Phillips has 4.5 TFLs followed by Rick Wade and Chigozie Nnoruka with 4.0 each; Jacob Tuioti-Mariner adds 2.5 sacks. The opponent completion % of .536 is the 2nd-lowest in P12.
• LB Kenny Young has 34 tackles in the last three games, with 12-each at Stanford and vs. Colorado to go with a 10-spot at Arizona.
• UCLA's rushing total of 190 yards at UA was a season-high. Bolu Olorunfunmi (102) and Jalen Starks (63) posted career-bests at Arizona.
IN BRIEF--
• Adarius Pickett totaled 8 tackles at Arizona and registered a career-best 41-yard punt return. He had a 35-yard return last season vs. Utah. He recorded a career-best 11 tackles vs. Texas A&M and also got a hand on the last field goal attempt by Texas A&M which would have put the Aggies in front 47-31 with a little over eight minutes to play.
• Punter Stefan Flintoft has placed 9 of his 19 punts inside the opponent's 20-yard line; he boomed a career-long 63-yarder against Texas A&M.
• UCLA's total of 25 draftees in the last five NFL Drafts is the most of any Pac-12 school during that stretch and includes a first-round selection in four of the past five drafts.
• Since the start of the 2012 season, UCLA has won 23 of 28 games (82%) when winning the turnover battle and owns a record of 21-21 (50.0%) in games when losing or tying the turnover ratio.
