J. Brady McCollough: UCLA’s choke job robs L.A. of grand return to college football’s big stage
by J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times
Nov 13, 2022
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It would have been thrilling to see Los Angeles as the beating heart of a college football Saturday, with UCLA and USC playing as top-10-ranked teams for the first time since Troy Aikman and Rodney Peete were quarterbacking their respective universities.
After UCLA’s shocking 34-28 loss to Arizona in the Rose Bowl on Saturday night, the thrill is gone.
Simply put: What a choke.
Ironically, with UCLA administrators praying for the University of California Regents who meet Wednesday to let them leave for the Big Ten without real punishment,
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