1998 Texas @ UCLA - First Half
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- UT arrived in Pasadena with revenge for Rout 66 on their minds, so much so that the blocking sleds had the #66 jersey, bringing a healthy stock of NFL talent -- Ricky Williams, Wane McGarity, Kwame Cavil, Sean Rogers, Casey Hampton, DD Lewis, Cedric Woodard, Aaron Humphrey and Quinten Jammer. The result was again a disappointment, outmatched by a national title caliber UCLA team in full form in their first game.
First half
UCLA drives down the field on the opening drive which culminated in a reverse and WR pass by FR WR Freddie Mitchell to Brian Poli-Dixon. A highlight reel play executed with ease. UCLA 7-0
UCLA takes their next possession and with the help of a spectacular overhead catch by Dan Farmer -- thrown by Cade McNown - runs in for a 14-0 lead
UT counters with Ricky -- runs and an impressive screen pass. Ricky Brown with a nice run.The drive stalls and Stockton kicks a FG. UCLA 14-3
UCLA takes the KO return by Freddie Mitchell and another reverse with a run to set up another TD run. UCLA 21-3
Texas has a couple of solid Ricky runs but the drive stall.
UCLA takes the possession and with a long screen pass of their own sets up a TD pass where Farmer spins Quintin Jammer into an embarrassing pose for the easy TD. UCLA 28-3. Desaun Foster had his first college run included in the drive -- this talented FR RB had 59 TDs and 3300 yards rushing in his high school senior year, went on to play in the NFL.
Texas can barely execute anything outside of Ricky, so UCLA gets the ball and scores again 35-3
Combining the 1997 game (66-3) and this first half, UCLA outscores Texas 101-6
The fact that UCLA outscored Texas 101-6 in six quarters of football spanning the 1997 and 1998 seasons is as remarkable as any statistic I have ever seen in nearly 40 years of following college football. That is just inexplicable.
What makes it more remarkable is that this defense was awful (against Ricky Williams too). If this UCLA defense was just average in 98 they would have steamrolled to a national title.
@@showtimebruin7821 a lot of UCLA players got hurt during the season.
Against Houston, Freddie Mitchell broke his leg. If UCLA just had him against Miami perhaps UCLA would have won.
Ayabadejo got hurt. Kenyon Coleman got hurt.
Against Miami and Wisconsin, UCLA has two true frosh and a walk on the D Line.
@@showtimebruin7821I was a freshman at the game. I remember Williams was dominating
I still have my no 87 powder blue UCLA jersey. Bought that number because of Danny Farmer
back when ucla had the best looking uni's in college football........love them powder blues!!
Hard to believe Texas took that bad of a beat down from a west coast team!!!!!!!.Goooooo Bruins!!!!!!!!!!.
I think this game would have been better at the end of that year. Texas was still getting the stink of John Mackovick off of them. They lost by 41 to Kansas State around that time as well. But by the end of the season, they made a nice turnaround.
I was on the field for this game. Toledo's finest hour.
Brian poli dixon is my brother
I went to Jr. high with he and Mike Saffer. Townsend jr. high.