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Football Hosts Colorado in Search of Third Win in Row
October 29, 2019 | Football
GAME NINE: Colorado at UCLA
Venue: Spieker Field at the Rose Bowl (80,606) natural grass
Kickoff Time: 6 p.m. PT
Television: Pac-12 Network (Ted Robinson, Yogi Roth, Lewis Johnson)
Radio (UCLA Sports Network from IMG College): AM 570
Josh Lewin (play-by-play),Matt Stevens (analyst), Wayne Cook (sideline)
Sirius Ch. 136/XM 198/internet 960
UCLA (3-5, 3-2) hosts Colorado (3-5, 1-4) on Saturday at 6:00 p.m. PT. The game will be televised by Pac-12 Network. The Bruin IMG Radio Network will broadcast the contest, which will also be aired over 97.3 FM, Sirius/XM, uclabruins.com and tunein.com and the TuneIn App. UCLA is proud to join our institution in celebrating UCLA's Centennial all season long. The football team will mark the Centennial with a UCLA 100 helmet sticker for every game, and a UCLA 100 jersey patch for all home games.
The seven new members of the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame will be introduced at halftime of the contest: Jill Ellis (women's soccer), Peter Fleming (men's tennis), Tairia Mims Flowers (softball), Skip Hicks (football), Courtney Mathewson (women's water polo), Adam Naeve (men's volleyball), and Kristee Porter (women's volleyball/basketball/track & field).Induction ceremonies will be held Friday. For further information go to https://ucla.in/32URO9A
The Bruins own a 10-4 overall advantage in the series against Colorado, which started in 1980. The Bruins have won six out of the seven meetings held in Los Angeles/Pasadena, winning the last two such matchups by four points each (27-23 in '17/35-31 in '15).
Last season, then-unbeaten Colorado (4-0) prevailed 38-16 in Boulder. The Bruins jumped out to a 10-7 fi rst quarter lead after a JJ Molson field goal followed a scoring pass play to Michael Ezeike from Dorian Thompson-Robinson. Colorado rallied to go up 14-13 at the break. A third Molson fi eld goal pushed UCLA into a 16-14 advantage with 10 minutes to play in the third quarter. The Buffaloes answered with three TDs and a fi eld goal to close out the Bruins 38-16. Joshua Kelley rushed for 124 yards in the game.
In the 2017 meeting between the teams played in the Rose Bowl, Josh Rosen threw for 372 yards and a touchdown to lead the Bruins to a 27-23 win. UCLA built a 21-10 edge three minutes into the second half. Colorado came back to tally the next 10 points to make it 21-20 heading into the final quarter. After the teams traded field goals, Molson connected on a 31-yard attempt with 26 seconds left, capping off a 15-play drive which took over six minutes off the clock, to push UCLA into the four-point advantage.
THE WATCH LIST
โข The Bruins used 61% (35/57) freshmen and sophomores among the 57 players who saw action vs. ASU ... --- 2 grad students, 9 seniors, 11 juniors, 18 soph., 12 redshirt freshmen, 5 true freshmen ... UCLA utilized 48 players at Cincinnati, 52 v. San Diego State, 54 v. Oklahoma, 54 at WSU, 53 at Arizona, 51 vs. Oregon State, 54 at Stanford.
โข UCLA ran a season-high 57 times vs. ASU (most rushing attempts in a game since 2014 vs. Arizona-59) ... Over the last 5 games, Bruins have averaged 220.6 yards per game on the ground in last four contests after averaging 78.0 yards/g in first three games of 2019 -- Joshua Kelley first 3 (52.0 yds/g) / last 5 games (126.2) -- Dorian Thompson-Robinson first 3g (-15.0/g)/last 4 he has played in (50.3/g).
โข UCLA is over .500 in the Pac-12 standings for the first time since 2015 when it opened 1-0 and went on to go 4-2 before fi nishing 5-4...The Bruins have been 2-2 in each of the past three seasons.
โข Over the last four games, the Bruins have run 331 plays to 251 for the opponent for an average advantage of 82.8 to 62.8.
โข With 176 rushing yards at Stanford and 164 last week vs. ASU, Joshua Kelley has risen to the top of the P12 rushing list (105.0 yds/g) ... He moved into 18th on all-time UCLA career rushing list (1,978 yds)...Kelley has 9 career 100-yard games (3 in '19), which is tied for 10th on all-time school list.
โข The past two weeks, safety Stephan Blaylock has led the Bruins in tackles vs. Arizona State (7) and at Stanford (9) --- (16 tackles total, forced a fumble vs. ASU and recovered a fumble at Stanford).
โข Demetric Felton (36 receptions) has matched George Farmer's school mark for catches in a season by a running back (36-1969). The last time a Bruin running back led the team in receiving was in 2006 - Chris Markey, 35 receptions.
โข Total offense in first 3 games of 2019 --- 263.3 yds/g (4.1 per play) --- last 5 games of 2019 --- 488.4 (6.0 per play).
