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UCLA Heads to Memphis for Saturday Contest
September 12, 2017 | Football
No. 25 UCLA at Memphis
Saturday, September 16, 2017 โ 9:00 a.m. (PT)
Game Information
Venue: (Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium)
Kickoff Time: 9:00 a.m. PT
Television: ABC national
TV Talent:
Beth Mowins (play-by-play), Anthony Becht (analyst), Rocky Boiman (sideline)
Radio (UCLA Sports Network from IMG College): AM 1150
Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Matt Stevens (analyst), Wayne Cook (sideline)
SIRIUS/XM Radio Channels: Sirius Ch. 145/XM Ch. 197/Internet 959
BRUINS HIT THE ROAD FOR GAME AT MEMPHIS
UCLA (2-0), which moved into the national rankings for the first time this season at No. 25 in the Associated Press poll, travels to Memphis (1-0) for a non-conference match up on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 9 a.m. PT/ 11 a.m. CT. The game will be televised by ABC on a full national basis. 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. UCLA is 4-1 in first road games of a season under Coach Jim Mora.
The Bruins last faced Memphis in a 2014 game played in the Rose Bowl and prevailed in that contest by a score of 42-35 thank to a then-school-record-tying 33 completions by Brett Hundley. The Bruin quarterback finished with 396 passing yards and three touchdowns in the win.
THE WATCH LIST
โข The last time the Bruins played in Memphis was in the 1976 Liberty Bowl. It was the first time UCLA had participated in a bowl game other than the Rose Bowl. Alabama defeated the Bruins 36-6 in that contest played on December 20, 1976 in 34-degree weather before a crowd of over 52,000. Theotis Brown (1,092) and Wendell Tyler (1,003) became UCLA's first twin thousand-yard rushers for a season during the game.
โข UCLA senior associate head coach/ tight ends Rip Scherer was the head coach at Memphis from 1995-2000. One of his biggest wins came in a 1996 upset of then No. 6-ranked Tennessee. The 26-point underdog Tigers scored a last-minute touchdown to secure a 21-17 win over the Vols, the first in Memphis' program history after 15 straight losses to Tennessee, which would go 10-2 that season including a win in week two over the Bruins.
โข A win over Memphis would be the 599th in UCLA football program history. The Bruins played their first games in the 1919 season.
โข Josh Rosen's 9 scoring passes in the last two games sit behind Drew Olson, who threw 11 in a pair of 2005 games vs. Wash. St. (5) and Oregon St. (6) on the all-time school list...D. Olson had 13 in a three-game stretch, which is the school standard for that stretch.
โข Dating back to 1980, Rosen's 88% completion performance rates as the second-best by a Bruin QB behind Rick Neuheisel's 25-27 effort (.925) in a 1983 game vs. Washington
โข UCLA, now at #25 according to the Associated Press this week, was last in the AP poll in the 2016 preseason listing (#16) ... It dropped out after a season-opening overtime loss at Texas A&M.
โข UCLA is 4-1 in first road games of a season under Coach Mora.
โข UCLA has scored a touchdown on 12 of the past 14 drives Josh Rosen has started out under center (end of game v. Texas A&M, end of half v. Hawai'i) ...Over the last 5 quarters of play, Josh Rosen has completed 41 of 51 passes for 620 yards and nine touchdowns, no interceptions.
โข The win over Hawai'i was victory #43 for Coach Mora who is in fifth on the all-time Bruin coaching win list. Coach Mora needs seven more Ws to become just the fourth UCLA head man to reach the 50-win mark (Terry Donahue - 151, Bill Spaulding - 72, Red Sanders - 66, Bob Toledo 49)
โข Josh Rosen is 474 yards shy of tying Cory Paus for 4th on the all-time UCLA career passing yards list and 123 yards shy of tying Paus for the 4th on the career total offense yards list.
โข The Hawai'i contest marked Rosen's 11th-straight game in which he has played that he has thrown at least one TD pass ... He has at least one scoring pass in 20 of his 21 career games (not Washington State) ... The Hawai'i game was the 7th in which he has at least 3 TD passes.
โข Brett Hundley is the only UCLA quarterback to have thrown for three 300-yard passing games in a row in the same season (2012).
โข Against Hawai'i, Darren Andrews became the first Bruin receiver to haul in three touchdowns passes in a game since Marcedes Lewis in 2004.
VS.MEMPHIS/ THE AAC
This will be the second meeting between UCLA and the Tigers on the gridiron. The schools last met in 2014, a 42-35 Bruin win in the Rose Bowl. UCLA is 7-7-0 all-time vs. teams in the current American Athletic Conference -- Memphis (1-0), Navy (0-0), SMU (1-4), Tulane (0-0), Houston (4-3), Tulsa (0-0), South Florida (0-0), Cincinnati (0-0), Central Florida (0-0), UConn (0-0), East Carolina (0-0), Temple (1-0).
IN BRIEF
โข UCLA has won 18 of its last 21 non-conference match-ups. The Bruins have won 16 of 17 regular season non-conference games under Coach Mora, with the lone loss coming last season at Texas A&M.
โข UCLA is 18-11 in true road games under Coach Moraโ '16: 1-5, '15: 4-2, '14: 5-0, '13: 4-2, '12: 4-2 and 13-9 in regular season P12 road games ('12: 3-1, '13: 3-2, '14: 4-0, '15: 3-2, '16: 0-4).
โข Krys Barnes posted a career-high 12 tackles in the win over Hawaii'i ... The true sophomore had a total of three career tackles coming into the game
โข Making their first career starts vs. Texas A&M were DL Boss Tagaloa, DB Octavius Spencer, OL Michael Alves, DL Jealan Phillips, DB Darnay Holmes...DL Nick Terry made his first start vs. Hawai'i
โข Darnay Holmes' 30-yard interception return vs. Hawai'i was the 13th defensive score for the Bruins since 2012.
โข Starts leaders among current players - OL Scott Quessenberry - 33, DB Jaleel Wadood - 33, LB Kenny Young - 32, QB Josh Rosen 21, OL Kenny Lacy - 21; Young has the longest starting streak on the team - last 20 games.
โข UCLA is 30-8 under Coach Mora when scoring first in a game.
โข UCLA has posted a 13-11 overall record against ranked opponents under Coach Mora and has won seven of the last 12.
โข 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 20-20 (50%) in games when losing or tying the turnover ratio.
โข True Freshmen Played: 2017: 4, 2016: 11, 2015: 10, 2014: 9, 2013: 18, 2012:12 --- True freshmen who have seen action in 2017: DB Darnay Holmes, DL Jaelan Phillips, DB Mo Osling III, DL Martin Andrus
โข In addition to the true freshmen, players seeing their first career action vs. Texas A&M include: WR Damian Alloway, OL Michael Alves, LB Breland Brandt, OL Jake Burton, LB Mique Juarez, DL Marcus Moore, DL Osa Odighizuwa, DL Chigozie Nnoruka, DB Keyon Riley, LB Leni Toailoa, TE Jordan Wilson. WR Demetric Felton saw his first career action vs. Hawai'i.
โข The Bruins are 37-3 under Coach Mora when ahead at the half.
โข Tight end Caleb Wilson's 15 catches vs. Texas A&M established a new UCLA school record (WR J.J. Stokes had 14 catches vs. Wisconsin in 1994 Rose Bowl game and WR Jordan Payton had 14 vs. Washington State in 2015) ... Wilson was just the third Bruin receiver to go over the 200 receiving yards mark with his 208-yard effort vs. Texas A&M (WR J.J. Stokes holds school mark with 263 yards vs. USC, 1992; WR Craig Bragg had 230 vs. Oregon in 2002)...Wilson's previous career highs were 4 catches vs. USC, last season and 83 receiving yards at Cal in 2016.
โข The Bruin secondary allowed the fewest touchdown passes among Pac-12 teams last season (12) and did not give up one in the opener against Texas A&M. Hawai'i recorded the first passing TDs of 2017 last week. Four times in the last eight games the secondary has kept the opponent passer from tossing a touchdown.
โข The Bruins started two true freshmen (DL Jaelan Phillips and DB Darnay Holmes) on defense for the first time ever in a season-opener.
โข Quarterback Josh Rosen's 491-yard passing effort vs. Texas A&M was the third-most in school history behind only Cade McNown who had 513 vs. Miami in 1998 and Drew Olson who threw for 510 vs. Arizona State in 2005. Rosen threw for 292 yards in the fourth quarter alone. His 477 total yards of offense ranks as the fourth-best mark in school history.
โข Rosen's 59 passing attempts vs. Texas A&M were the second-most in school history (Mike Fafaul 70 vs. Utah, 2016) ... Rosen's 35 completions also rank second behind Fafaul's total of 40 in that same Utah game.
โข UCLA had six sacks vs. Texas A&M, the most since producing the same number vs. Washington State in 2015.
โข Adarius Pickett recorded a career-best 11 tackles vs. Texas A&M. He 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. Pickett also served as the Bruin punt returner.
โข Darren Andrews' 12 catches vs. Texas A&M are the fourth-most catches in a game by a Bruin ... Only Wilson (15), Stokes (14) and Payton (14) have made more in a contest. Last season, Andrews became the 35th Bruin to reach the 1,000-receiving yards mark (vs. Colorado) ... The two previous seasons, Andrews hauled in 98 passes for 1,152 yards and no returning Pac-12 player had caught more passes than Andrews over those two previous seasons (CU's Shay Fields also had 98 entering play in 2017).
โข Wilson's (15) and Andrews' (12) total of 27 catches vs. A&M made them the most productive receiving tandem in Bruin single-game history.
โข The Texas A&M game marked the second time in school history UCLA has had three 100-yard receivers in the same contest --- Caleb WIlson (208), Darren Andrews (142), Jordan Lasley (100). The only other time was in a 2005 game vs. Arizona State (Chris Markey 120, Joe Cowan 109, Marcedes Lewis 108).
โข Punter Stefan Flintoft boomed a 63-yarder in the first quarter against Texas A&M which was the longest of his career.
โข The Bruin comeback from 34 points down (10-44 with 4:08 remaining in the 3rd quarter ranks as the second-greatest number of points overcome to win a game between FBS Teams --- Michigan State rallied from a 35-point deficit (3-38 at 9:54 of 3rd quarter) against Northwestern in a 41-38 win during a 2006 game.
โข UCLA has won 28 straight overall games and 47 straight regular season games in which it has held the opponent to less than 20 points (last loss 17-16 to BYU in 2007 Las Vegas Bowl / last regular season loss 16-14 at Colorado 2003).
