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Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - yvonne - 12-26-2015

Nebraska is ploughing through UCLA's defense. The Bruins had better be able to score because they're not stopping anyone.

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - BostonCard - 12-26-2015

(12-26-2015, 08:43 PM)Yvonne link Wrote:Nebraska is ploughing through UCLA's defense. The Bruins had better be able to score because they're not stopping anyone.

Yeah, I was going to say that UCLA is getting pushed around big time.  Makes me wonder why I was worried about playing them.

BC

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - akCard - 12-26-2015

(12-26-2015, 08:24 PM)Boston Card link Wrote:As an aside, gotta love the announcers, singing the praises of the Big Ten for getting 10 teams into bowl games.  Never mind that the Pac-12 also got 10 teams in, and did so with two fewer teams, and did so without having to sneak any 5-7 teams in (*ahem* Nebraska)... no mention of it by the announcers.

BC

Not more than 10 minutes ago, Rod Gilmore talked at length about 5-7 teams making bowls. He was upset at first but then later thought it was a sign of the times because since 2010, multiple pro teams with losing records have made the playoffs.

But yeah, UGLY getting run over and around by a team with a losing record.

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - BostonCard - 12-26-2015

There are 40 bowl games; there should be about half that many.  Forget about 5-7 teams; 6-6 teams shouldn't be making it either (especially those with wins over FCS teams).

And by the way, 2 of Nebraska's 5 wins were against South Alabama and South Mississippi.  Both are FBS teams, but come on.  Three wins against Power-5 teams?

As far as the game, UCLA catches a break when a Nebraska player is tossed for a controversial targeting.  I don't think he was targeting, even though there may have been contact above the head, but I wasn't nearly as apoplectic as the announcers.  The way to avoid these penalties is to, you know, make sure all the contact happens below the neck.  In any case, the Chosen One throws an interception on the very next play.

BC

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - akCard - 12-26-2015

Still too early prognostication: I'm guessing that after this game, the Bruins are going to be really, REALLY tired of literally being run over by teams in red and white uniforms.

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - Rally - 12-26-2015

(12-26-2015, 09:28 PM)akCard link Wrote:Still too early prognostication: I'm guessing that after this game, the Bruins are going to be really, REALLY tired of literally being run over by teams in red and white uniforms.

Maybe, someday, they will be worthy of being run over by the Blacks.

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - fullmetal - 12-26-2015

Nebraska's up by nine points with three minutes left in the 3Q.  And they have the ball.  C'mon UCLA, don't coug this one...!

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - BostonCard - 12-26-2015

UCLA has run 6 plays for -4 yards in two possessions in the third quarter. They possessed the ball 2:53 in the quarter. The UCLA QB is 2/4 for 6 yards.

UCLA is looking weak.  Nebraska has scored 23 straight points (probably soon to be 30).  Would hate to be on BRO right now.

BC

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - CompSci87 - 12-26-2015

(12-26-2015, 09:49 PM)fullmetal link Wrote:Nebraska's up by nine points with three minutes left in the 3Q.  And they have the ball.  C'mon UCLA, don't coug this one...!

I thought couging meant snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. UCLA hasn't been close enough to spot victory with binoculars thus far.

(Well, they did have the lead early on some long passes by the Rosen one, but were getting physically overpowered whenever on defense.)

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - BostonCard - 12-26-2015

(12-26-2015, 09:49 PM)ferrari link Wrote:[quote author=akCard link=topic=14163.msg149614#msg149614 date=1451190535]
Still too early prognostication: I'm guessing that after this game, the Bruins are going to be really, REALLY tired of literally being run over by teams in red and white uniforms.

Maybe, someday, they will be worthy of being run over by the Blacks.
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We did that in the 2012 Pac-12 championship game, though we only got 170 yards rushing (the week before, in our road whites, we got 221 yards with Stepfan Taylor racking up 142 yards on only 20 carries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-oAOLheX5w

BC

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - BostonCard - 12-26-2015

Well, UCLA answered to get to within 8, then stopped Nebraska, and was driving some bubble screens going for good gains.  Then... on a third down the center snaps it before the QB is ready, and UCLA's all-everything kicker missed the 46 yard field goal attempt.  Ukropina, he is not.

BC

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - washingtonismoney - 12-26-2015

Theoretically the Mora regime's headed in a solid direction. Were it not for the injuries this year, I think UCLA would've had a solid shot at the playoff. But something seems...off about UCLA throughout the Mora tenure.

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - winflop - 12-26-2015

I hope UCLA gives Mora a lifetime contract.  It's the gift that keeps on giving.

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - BostonCard - 12-26-2015

(12-26-2015, 10:42 PM)washingtonismoney link Wrote:Theoretically the Mora regime's headed in a solid direction. Were it not for the injuries this year, I think UCLA would've had a solid shot at the playoff. But something seems...off about UCLA throughout the Mora tenure.

Losing Miles Jack (among others) obviously hurt them.  But ultimately, there is no getting around the fact that they are soft, and compound it by being sloppy and undisciplined.

BC

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - Ratmandoo - 12-26-2015

(12-26-2015, 10:42 PM)washingtonismoney link Wrote:Theoretically the Mora regime's headed in a solid direction. Were it not for the injuries this year, I think UCLA would've had a solid shot at the playoff. But something seems...off about UCLA throughout the Mora tenure.

Yeah, it seems like anytime the Bruins play a game with anything on the line, they don't show up. Their team is just soft in the big moments. It drives my UCLA friends crazy.

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - BostonCard - 12-26-2015

(12-26-2015, 11:09 PM)Ratmandoo link Wrote:[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=14163.msg149624#msg149624 date=1451194951]
Theoretically the Mora regime's headed in a solid direction. Were it not for the injuries this year, I think UCLA would've had a solid shot at the playoff. But something seems...off about UCLA throughout the Mora tenure.

Yeah, it seems like anytime the Bruins play a game with anything on the line, they don't show up. Their team is just soft in the big moments. It drives my UCLA friends crazy.
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Especially when it is against an inferior opponent.  I suggest we dub this phenomenon "to bruin it".

BC

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - fullmetal - 12-26-2015

Mora says the team needs to get bigger, get stronger.  Has he learned nothing from playing Stanford?  Maybe another team in red and white had to bring that lesson home.

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - stupac2 - 12-26-2015

(12-26-2015, 11:09 PM)Ratmandoo link Wrote:[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=14163.msg149624#msg149624 date=1451194951]
Theoretically the Mora regime's headed in a solid direction. Were it not for the injuries this year, I think UCLA would've had a solid shot at the playoff. But something seems...off about UCLA throughout the Mora tenure.

Yeah, it seems like anytime the Bruins play a game with anything on the line, they don't show up. Their team is just soft in the big moments. It drives my UCLA friends crazy.
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Hadn't Mora beaten USC every time until this year? That's at least something...

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - BostonCard - 12-27-2015

(12-26-2015, 11:51 PM)stupac2 link Wrote:[quote author=Ratmandoo link=topic=14163.msg149627#msg149627 date=1451196592]
[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=14163.msg149624#msg149624 date=1451194951]
Theoretically the Mora regime's headed in a solid direction. Were it not for the injuries this year, I think UCLA would've had a solid shot at the playoff. But something seems...off about UCLA throughout the Mora tenure.

Yeah, it seems like anytime the Bruins play a game with anything on the line, they don't show up. Their team is just soft in the big moments. It drives my UCLA friends crazy.
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Hadn't Mora beaten Unbelievably Spoiled Children every time until this year? That's at least something...
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Well, that's sort of like strapping buttered toast to the back of a cat.  One of the two has to win.

BC

Re: PAC12 Bowl Update - OutsiderFan - 12-27-2015

Mora seems like the next Mark Richt.  Recruits really well, and maybe makes it to a a few conference championship games, but  just doesn't have what it takes to beat the best coaches as consistently as his talent suggests he maybe should.

That all said, show me an 8-4 team excited to play a 5-7 team in a bowl game.  That's not happening.  Despite the fact Nebraska lost 4 games on the final play, there was no way UCLA's team was super excited to play that game.  And I'm sure playing it at the site of the Pac-12 CG (where they wanted to be) didn't help matters much either.