2011 SEASON REVIEW
the Bruins bounced back to beat California 31–14 at the Rose Bowl in their most complete game of the season to that point. On offense, Prince rushed for 163 yards while passing for 92 more. Coleman had 80 yards on the ground but, more importantly, he ran for three touchdowns. On defense, freshman safety Tevin McDonald inter- cepted three passes (the fi rst of his college career) to set up two touchdowns and a fi eld goal. Then, No. 20 Arizona State visited the Rose Bowl. The Sun Dev-
ils were heavy favorites to just about wrap up the South Division title, and they jumped out to an eight-point lead in the fi rst half. But Gonzalez kicked a key fi eld goal, Coleman ran one yard for a touchdown, and Prince teamed with Nelson Rosario on a 76-yard touchdown pass to put the Bruins ahead by nine. Arizona State ral- lied to pull ahead again, but Coleman ran one yard for the go-ahead touchdown with 49 seconds to play, and UCLA pulled off a dramatic 29–28 upset victory. The fi nal touchdown came after a furious 79- yard drive, the key play of which was a stunning conversion on a third-and-29 play that UCLA might point to as the season’s biggest. With the surprising win, suddenly, the Bruins were in a tie for fi rst place in the South. No one knew it at the time, but UCLA’s victory sent the Sun Dev-
ils reeling to a four-game losing streak to close the regular season, and Arizona State’s problems proved pivotal to the Bruins’ division
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championship. Not even a lopsided, 31–6 loss in the snow a week later at resurgent Utah could keep UCLA from controlling its own destiny in the South. The Bruins bounced back from that loss—naturally—to rout Colo-
rado 45–6 behind Prince’s career-best four touchdown passes. He was also a near-perfect 15-for-19 and didn’t thrown an interception. After being thrown into the mix due to Brehaut’s injury, Prince had become the Bruins’ go-to guy. In the game, Fauria had another pair of touchdown catches as he and Prince settled into a nice rhythm. The Bruins’ running game found another star, too, when Johnathan Franklin ran for 162 yards and a touchdown, while Shaq Evans also got into the mix, catching a 54-yard scoring strike from Prince. With that win in their pocket and still clinging to fi rst place, the
Bruins got a little magic the following weekend. Colorado, the team that UCLA had humbled the previous week, came up with a stirring upset of Utah. The loss by the Utes made it offi cial, even before the Bruins’ last game against USC: UCLA, after all the ups and downs, had done it. The Bruins had earned the right to represent the South in the Pac-12 title game. UCLA did lose 50–0 to archrival USC in the fi nal regular-season
game, but the Bruins knew that they were headed to Eugene for a date with destiny. And since UCLA has followed every loss this sea- son with a win, Bruins’ fans are hoping history repeats.
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