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.
Tag Archives: Rivalry Week 2013
Nguyening: UCLA-USC matchup now just a matter of pride
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. The […]
UCLA still fired up for USC game despite elimination from Pac-12 race
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. In a 50-0 shellacking, USC outclassed UCLA, a team that […]
Victory Bell resonates with Bruins past and present
Three days after UCLA defeated USC last year, a contagious energy and buzz filled the J.D. Morgan Center, the likes of which the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame hadn’t seen in almost six years. A crowd of people gathered inside, awaiting the arrival of the prize given to the winner of the UCLA-USC game: the […]
Recalling UCLA-USC rivalry heading into 2013 game
Steve Shilstone, 1966 alumnus Nov. 20, 1965. Bruins trail 16-6 with about four minutes to go. Sophomore quarterback Gary Beban hits Dick Witcher with a bomb to make the score 16-14. The ensuing onside kick is successful. Beban promptly throws another bomb to Kurt Altenberg – Bruins 20, USC 16. The Bruin defense, with undersized […]