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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
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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).
