Football|November 18, 2023
LOS ANGELES (AP) Chip Kelly located Caleb Williams after the video game and provided a cozy hug to the quarterback that stands side-by-side with Andrew Good luck in the UCLA instructor’s individual positions of the most effective university gamers he has actually ever before encountered.
Both males understood Williams may have simply played his last breaks of university football in a loss that boosted the opportunities of Kelly training a lot more ready the Bruins in the future.
T.J. Harden hurried for a career-high 142 backyards and racked up 2 goals, Ethan Garbers tossed 3 TD passes and UCLA beat USC Football 38-20 on Saturday in the 93rd version of their crosstown face-off.
Alex Johnson returned a fumble 11 backyards for an essential second-half goal for the Bruins (7-4, 4-4 Pac-12), that likely enhanced Kelly’s suspicious work safety and security by recovering the Success Bell in excellent style.
“I think anybody that’s been in this game (knows it’s) unique,” Kelly stated. “I’ve been at other schools in other (rivalry) games, and it’s not like this. I think the proximity of the schools, playing for the Bell, there’s so much that goes into it. It’s cool to see the smiles on our kids’ faces when we get to bring the Bell back to our school.”
Hudson Habermehl captured 2 of the 3 TD goes by Garbers, while UCLA’s protection compelled 3 turn overs and considerably restricted Williams’ playmaking opportunities, causing a congratulatory mid-day.
“Today was probably one of the better days of my life, for sure,” stated Garbers, an Orange Region citizen. “I’ve had some dreams about this as a little kid. Great to get the W and go home.”
Williams masqueraded 384 backyards with a goal and an interception on his 22nd birthday celebration in the last video game of the normal period for the Trojans (7-5, 5-4), that shed 5 of 6 after being rated No. 5 going into the year and starting 6-0.
“Very, very disappointing,” Lincoln Riley stated. “I mean, there’s no other way to put it. I told the guys in the locker room I’ve clearly not done a good enough job in the second half of the season getting this team ready to go. … We just didn’t play good enough in any way.”
Riley has actually shed 3 straight ready the very first time in his 7 years as a head instructor at Oklahoma and USC. Williams and Riley won their very first 11 video games with each other at the Coliseum prior to shedding the last 3.
The Trojans’ Heisman Prize victor hasn’t introduced his prepare for following year or the upcoming championship game. He did not talk with the media later.
“He came here and took a chance on this place, and took a chance on being a part of restarting this program and getting it going,” Riley stated of Williams. “He’s been a good player for us, a really good leader for us. He’s a special player, special competitor, and obviously we’ll see where it goes from here.”
Not also a vibrant home group that consisted of pop celebrity and USC trainee Olivia Rodrigo might stimulate the Trojans to an affordable efficiency. Amongst the lowlights were 3 backyards hurrying.
“We didn’t finish well, there’s no other way to put it,” pass rush Jamil Muhammad stated of USC’s second-half swoon. “We didn’t do enough things well to win. We’ll come back better, starting in the bowl game, and then next season it’ll be a nice turnaround for us.”
After racking up simply 45 factors in their previous 3 video games integrated, the Bruins illuminated the scoreboard versus USC’s protection. UCLA had not won back-to-back video games at USC’s 101-year-old arena because 1997, yet the Bruins never ever tracked in this competition after burning out the Trojans 62-33 2 years back.
UCLA’s infraction took care of simply 7 factors recently in a humiliating loss to Arizona State, yet the Bruins drove 48 backyards for Harden’s TD work on their opening drive.
“This entire performance was for (Kelly),” Garbers stated. “It shows a lot about our team and this culture that we can come from last week to this week and do this.”
USC had its finest offending minute in the 2nd quarter when Williams topped a 99-yard drive with an attractive toss to Brenden Rice, that went 74 backyards for a rating.
“A moon ball by Caleb Williams on the money!”
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