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The 33rd Rose Bowl featured the 10-0 UCLA Bruins, led by head coach Ray Eliot, and the 7-2 Illinois Fighting Illini, led by head coach Bert LaBrucherie. UCLA lost the game, 14-45, they were favored to win by 14 points. Illinois rushed for a combined 320 yards, a then Rose Bowl record (Harrison 2018). [10]
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The 1978 Fiesta Bowl was the eighth edition of the college football bowl game, played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona on Monday, December 25. Part of the 1978–79 bowl game season, it matched the eighth-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks of the Southwest Conference (SWC), and the #15 UCLA Bruins from the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10). [ 2 ]
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches # AP °; Fred Cozens (Independent) (1919): 1919: Fred Cozens: 2–6: Harry Trotter (Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1920–1922)
In 1946, the then-Big Nine and Pacific Coast conferences agreed to have their champions meet in the Rose Bowl. The first game under the agreement in 1947 saw the Illinois Illini beat the UCLA ...
His teams compiled a record of 8–4–1 in bowl games and were the first to win a bowl game in seven consecutive seasons. [42] Donahue's UCLA teams won or shared five Pacific-10 Conference championships and won three Rose Bowls (1983, 1984, and 1986). [42] Donahue's record was 10–9–1 against USC in the UCLA–USC rivalry.
UCLA tailback Gaston Green was named the Player Of The Game. He ran for a record 266 yards, second only at the time to Curtis Dickey who ran for 276 in the 1978 Hall of Fame Classic . This is still the Pac-10 record for most rushing yards in a bowl game, [ 2 ] and fourth highest in NCAA bowl history.
The 1984 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their ninth year under head coach Terry Donahue , the Bruins compiled a 9–3 record (5–2 Pac-10), finished in a tie for third place in the Pacific-10 Conference ...