Had someone told UCLA fans they would hold Heisman runner up Christian McCaffrey and the 7th-ranked Stanford Cardinal out of the end zone for the first 59 minutes and 36 seconds of the 60-minute contest Saturday evening at the Rose Bowl, they\u2019d have loved their chances.<\/p>\n
Stanford, though, drove 70 yards, trailing 13-9, and took the lead when quarterback Ryan Burns hit JJ Arcega-Whiteside on an 8-yard TD with 23 seconds to play.<\/p>\n
Needing a field goal to tie game in 24 seconds was a difficult, but not impossible task for the Bruins and quarterback Josh Rosen.<\/p>\n
But on a third-down attempt, Rosen was crushed, fumbled the ball, and Stanford\u2019s Soloman Thomas scooped it up and brought it back 42 yards for the score as time expired.<\/p>\n
Many of the 80,000-plus had no idea the final play resulted in another score for the Cardinal (3-0 overall, 2-0 in Pac-12 North Division), until they saw the final score outside the Rose Bowl.<\/p>\n
UCLA (2-2, 0-1 Pac-12 South) had NBA world champion and former Bruin Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers to pump up the crowd, but at halftime the Bruins called out the big guns.<\/p>\n
U.S. Olympic medalists from all the way back to the 1948 games, joined fellow UCLA athletes who brought home medals up to the 2016 Olympics in Rio.<\/p>\n
Rafer Johnson, the 81-year old gold medal winner in the decathalon, got the biggest hand.<\/p>\n
In all, UCLA athletes have garnered 133 gold medals throughout the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
Back to Saturday, the Bruins may have kept McCaffrey out of the end zone, but the Stanford junior, and son of former 3-time Super Bowl champion Ed McCaffrey, led all rushers with 138 yards on 26 carries.<\/p>\n
Rosen had a game-high 248 yards on 18 of 27, including a 10-yard TD pass to Nate Iese in the first quarter to give UCLA a 7-3 lead.<\/p>\n
The Bruins would lead from that point on until Stanford scored with 24 seconds to play.<\/p>\n
It had many in the stands and waiting for the shuttle thinking \u201cwhat just happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
UCLA will host the Univ. of Arizona next Saturday with the time to be determined on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Had someone told UCLA fans they would hold Heisman runner up Christian McCaffrey and the 7th-ranked Stanford Cardinal out of the end zone for the first 59 minutes and 36 seconds of the 60-minute contest Saturday evening at the Rose Bowl, they\u2019d have loved their chances. Stanford, though, drove 70 yards, trailing 13-9, and took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-topstories"],"yoast_head":"\n