Read stories from our special UCLA-USC game preview insert, including features recounting the history of the rivalry and predictions from our sports columnists about the Nov. 30 game. Read more...
Photo: Given to the winner of the annual UCLA-USC football game, the Victory Bell carries with it a long history and is a symbol of the crosstown rivalry between the two schools.
The fact that this upcoming game against USC doesn’t matter at all could make it actually mean something. The feeling of disappointment, wasted opportunity and squandered potential Saturday as the Bruins lined up on 1st-and-30 on their own 35 with the chance to play in the Pac-12 championship game on the line was undeniable. Read more...
Photo: With painful memories such as UCLA’s 50-0 loss to USC two years ago, the UCLA-USC game remains meaningful because of the pride involved, even if a Pac-12 title isn’t on the line.
Every UCLA football Saturday, whether at the Rose Bowl or on the road, has so much more to it than a win or a loss. That’s why each postgame Monday, the Daily Bruin will break down the Bruins’ most recent game, outlining the good, the bad and the verdict for their performance. Read more...
Members of UCLA’s football team trudged to the locker room moments after falling short in a final, desperate push to extend a shot at a BCS bowl game. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt freshman center Carl Hulick was fired up following one of UCLA’s early-season wins over Nebraska, one of UCLA’s highest moments of the year.
USC had nothing to lose. At the L.A. Memorial Coliseum two years ago, in their last game officially under the lockdown of a two-year bowl ban, the Trojans treated their final home game against the Bruins as an all-in-one national championship and Pac-12 title game. Read more...
Photo: Two years ago, UCLA lost to USC 50-0, as quarterback Kevin Prince was unable to find the end zone all night for the Bruins. But with new coaches for both teams, this year’s matchup figures to be a more tightly contested one. UCLA heads into the game disappointed with its loss to Arizona State but determined to best its crosstown rivals.
In trying to figure out what Brett Hundley values most, his wrists are a good place to start. During many of the redshirt sophomore quarterback’s stand-up interviews with reporters, three wristbands fit snug just above a right hand that has flung the football more than 6,000 yards in two seasons at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Redshirt sophomore quarterback Brett Hundley supported his sister Paris Hundley at the Walk to End Epilepsy event on Nov. 17. Although Paris Hundley suffers from epilepsy, she and her family manage to attend all of UCLA football’s games to support her brother.
Short white socks with blue and gold stripes. Royal blue shorts cut just above the knee. A blue and gold V-neck sweater reveals the collar of a gold undershirt. Read more...
Photo: Alumni cheerleader Geoffrey Strand was known for asking “every man, woman and child” to cheer for UCLA.
