The UCLA football team came into its 2010 home opener against Stanford with a shopping list of things it hoped to improve after a narrow loss to Kansas State to start the season. Read more...
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UCLA redshirt sophomore tailback Johnathan Franklin was one of the lone bright spots for the UCLA offense Sept. 11 against Stanford at the Rose Bowl. Franklin carried the ball 11 times for a total of 73 yards.
There is such a thing as setting the tone in football, which could be considered the equivalent to setting the mood in romance.
You know what type of night it's going to be from the beginning.
So when the Bruins took on Kansas State Saturday afternoon and ran three consecutive pass plays to open the game "“ all of which were incomplete "“ the tone for UCLA was officially set.
Ineffective passing and catching were going to be the demise of the Bruins against the Wildcats.
Fast-forward to the final minutes of the game and what do you know: the Bruins have a chance to tie the game with a two-point conversion.
But ineffective passing and catching holds them back.
With a little over a minute left on the clock, UCLA quarterback Kevin Prince throws one of his few nice passes of the game, which lands in the arms of Ricky Marvray for a touchdown, bringing the Bruins to within two.
On the two-point conversion attempt, Prince rolls out right and throws a soft pass that clearly should have been caught by Taylor Embree. Read more...
MANHATTAN, Kan. "“ When Morrell Presley dropped passes on the game's first two plays, maybe it was just early jitters. Read more...
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MANHATTAN, Kan. "”mdash; Faced with a golden chance to snag a season-opening road victory in front of a packed house, the UCLA football team dropped the ball. Quite literally, in fact. Read more...
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UCLA wide receiver Nelson Rosario (83) watches as a pass falls incomplete in the third quarter of the Sept. 4 game against Kansas State. Wildcats defensive back Terrance Sweeney was flagged for pass interference on the play, and the drive resulted in a 35-yard Kai Forbath field goal that cut the Bruins’ deficit to one.
Throughout the first three weeks of fall practice, countless things have changed for the UCLA football team since the 2009 season. Read more...
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Saturday at Kansas State
Kansas State coach Bill Snyder took the Wildcats from cellar-dweller to national powerhouse in the 1990s and came back in 2009 to try and do it again. Senior running back Daniel Thomas (8) had more than 1,500 all-purpose yards for the Wildcats in 2009, including 115 yards against the Bruins at the Rose Bowl. (Credit: Kansas State Athletics)
