Wish I could say I watched UCLA’s 23-9 victory over Kansas State live after midnight Eastern time. Actually, I watched it pretty much at the time the sun was coming up over the Atlantic Ocean.
Here’s what occurred: Arizona State’s win over Louisiana-Monroe—shown live on Fox Sports Arizona—pushed back the start of a tape delayed UCLA game. After a long day of watching Nebraska give away a win to Virginia Tech, Notre Dame try to give away a win to Michigan State, and other adventures by California, Penn State, Iowa, Army, Florida, Georgia, and Texas, I was too bushed to do anything but dub my own version of the taped action from the Rose Bowl. It was an interesting match-up of two coaches—Rick Neuheisel and Bill Snyder—who used to battle each other annually at Colorado and K-State respectively.
A police and handcuffs nightmare—was I under arrest for posting lousy game picks in Week 2?—awoke me at 3:30 a.m. MST, so I rolled tape of the second half. Kansas State back Daniel Thomas, a former JC performer, crafted some nice spurts running the ball on an eight-minute TD drive in the third quarter to pull the Wildcats within 13-9.
But from that moment on, the Bruins’s defense really sparkled and ended with six sacks as they protected their 23-9 lead built on Kai Forbath’s field goal and WR Terrance Austin’s long reception of a perfect crossing-pattern TD pass from Kevin Craft, last year’s highly-limited QB who played well last night in place of Kevin Prince, who broke his jaw last week at Tennessee.
UCLA’s defense, which has a hole or two, plays with energy and could help steal an extra win or two in the Pac-10 this year.
Here’s what occurred: Arizona State’s win over Louisiana-Monroe—shown live on Fox Sports Arizona—pushed back the start of a tape delayed UCLA game. After a long day of watching Nebraska give away a win to Virginia Tech, Notre Dame try to give away a win to Michigan State, and other adventures by California, Penn State, Iowa, Army, Florida, Georgia, and Texas, I was too bushed to do anything but dub my own version of the taped action from the Rose Bowl. It was an interesting match-up of two coaches—Rick Neuheisel and Bill Snyder—who used to battle each other annually at Colorado and K-State respectively.
A police and handcuffs nightmare—was I under arrest for posting lousy game picks in Week 2?—awoke me at 3:30 a.m. MST, so I rolled tape of the second half. Kansas State back Daniel Thomas, a former JC performer, crafted some nice spurts running the ball on an eight-minute TD drive in the third quarter to pull the Wildcats within 13-9.
But from that moment on, the Bruins’s defense really sparkled and ended with six sacks as they protected their 23-9 lead built on Kai Forbath’s field goal and WR Terrance Austin’s long reception of a perfect crossing-pattern TD pass from Kevin Craft, last year’s highly-limited QB who played well last night in place of Kevin Prince, who broke his jaw last week at Tennessee.
UCLA’s defense, which has a hole or two, plays with energy and could help steal an extra win or two in the Pac-10 this year.
Bob Boyles
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