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Crosstown Rivals Set to Collide Saturday at USC
November 19, 2019 | Football
GAME 11: UCLA at USC (89th meeting)
Venue: United Airlines Field at LA Memorial Coliseum (77,500, natural grass)
Kickoff Time: 12:30 p.m., PT
Television: ABC (Steve Levy, Brian Griese, Todd McShay, Molly McGrath)
Radio (UCLA Sports Network from IMG College): AM 570 Josh Lewin (play-by-play),Matt Stevens (analyst), Wayne Cook (sideline)
ย ย ย ย XM Ch. 388 / Internet 977
UCLA (4-6, 4-3) travels to play at USC (7-4, 6-2) on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. PT. The game will be televised by ABC. 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.
This will be the 89th meeting of the teams. UCLA trails in the series 32-47*-7 (*two USC wins in '04 and '05 have been vacated due to NCAA penalties). The Bruins won last season in the Rose Bowl to take a 4-3 edge over the last seven series meetings. The Bruins' most recent win in the Coliseum was a 35-14 decision in 2013. Both teams will wear their home jerseys, a tradition re-started for the 2008 game. The winner of the game will take home the Victory Bell and earn points in the Crosstown Cup competition (10 points for football win) which is contested each year in head-to-head Bruin-Trojan battles in all sports (UCLA currently holds a 25-10 edge).
Joshua Kelley ran for a series record 289 yards in last season's 34-27 UCLA win in the Rose Bowl. Trailing by six points in the fourth quarter, Kelley broke through the line and raced 55 yards for the go-ahead score with 10:39 to play in the game. JJ Molson added a pair of field goals for the final margin.
In the last meeting held in the Coliseum in 2017, Josh Rosen threw for 421 yards, 204 yards went to Jordan Lasley, but the Bruin rally fell short 28-23. Mistakes in the red zone left the Bruins empty on some early scoring opportunities and USC opened up a 21-7 lead. Rosen hit Lasley for a 9-yard scoring play late in the third quarter to make it 21-14. A Molson field goal narrowed the gap to 21-17 early in the fourth. USC marched 90 yards in 10 plays to go up 28-17 with 4:53 to go. Rosen then found Lasley again for a 27-yard scoring strike, but a two-point pass went awry with 2:29 to play. USC recovered the onside kick attempt and the Bruins ran out of time.
In UCLA's 2013 win in the Coliseum, QB Brett Hundley threw for 202 yards and ran for two touchdowns. LB Myles Jack and DL Eddie Vanderdoes also ran for scores after lining up in the backfi eld. UCLA owned a 14-7 halftime lead and then outscored the home team by the same margin in quarter No. 3 to move out to a 28-14 advantage. A Paul Perkins scoring run made the final score 35-14.
THE WATCH LIST
โข Over the last eight meetings, the winning team in the crosstown matchup has averaged 37.4 points, with the winning team scoring at least 34 points in all but one game (2017-28). The last time a team scored at least 30 points and lost the game was in 2000.
โข Kyle Philips leads UCLA in receptions (43) and would be the fi rst redshirt freshman to do so since 2001 when Craig Bragg topped the Bruins' list.
โข Joshua Kelley, with 938 yards, is looking to become the eighth UCLA RB to post back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons -- Paul Perkins 2014/15, DeShaun Foster 2000-01, Skip Hicks 1997-98, Karim Abdul-Jabbar 1994-95, Gaston Green 1986-87, Freeman McNeil 1979-80, Wendell Tyler 1975-76.
โข UCLA has scored on its opening drive in seven of 10 games this season and it has scored a TD on its fi rst possession in all four winning games.
โข UCLA, which had 15 sacks all of last season, has 20 sacks in the last 7 games -- Sack leaders in last 7 games: OLB Josh Woods 3.5, OLB Keisean Lucier-South 2.5, DL Osa Odighizuwa 2.5, ILB Krys Barnes 2.0 -- Barnes and Odighizuwa are T9th in P12 in tackle for loss (0.90/g).
โข The Utah game snapped a streak of five straight games (9 TDs total) with a rushing touchdown for Joshua Kelley ... It also stopped a streak of three consecutive 100-yard rushing games by the senior (78 yds) who ranks second in the P12 with a 104.3 yards/g average ... Kelley has moved to 15th on all-time UCLA career list (2,182 yds) and has 10 career 100-yard games (4 in '19).
โข Joshua Kelley, currently second in the Pac-12 in rushing, is trying to become the first Bruin to lead the league since 2014. Paul Perkins, in 2014, and DeShaun Foster, in 2001, are the only other Bruins to do so since the 1990's. Kelley trails Zack Moss (Utah) by less than 2.0 yards/g on average (106.1 to 104.3) ... His 78 yards rushing at Utah was the second-highest total by a back against the Utes this season.
โข Over the last sixย games, the Bruins have run 478 plays to 373 for the opponent for an average advantage of 79.7 to 62.2.
