Nebraska’s Tommy Armstrong, Jr., accounted for two second-half touchdowns, one rushing and one passing, to lead the Cornhuskers to a 37-29 win over UCLA on Saturday.
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Regardless of your stance on the number of bowls, if you are a member of Nebraska Cornhusker’s faithful contingent or a die hard Big Ten football fan then pour yourself a glass of day-old egg nog and watch the conference’s second appearance during the bowl season. Nebraska also gave Iowa a good showing in the season finale, so there is reason for a bit of optimism in Lincoln heading into Saturday’s Foster Farms Bowl.
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Nebraska and UCLA will meet for the third time in four years. Yet that Midwestern team pounded them into sand, outpunching them from Foster to Farms.
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The location was perhaps an unwelcome one, too. Nebraska stuck with a smash-mouth game plan all night, scoring 30 unanswered points after falling behind 21-7 in the second quarter at Levi’s Stadium.
The good news for UCLA is that its best player is one of its youngest players, star freshman quarterback Josh Rosen.
UCLA had pulled within a TD on a 9-yard pass from Rosen to Jordan Payton earlier in the fourth quarter and was threatening to score with just over six minutes remaining.
The first Cornhuskers score, on their opening drive, was helped by a personal foul penalty against the Bruins’ Takkarist McKinley that moved Nebraska into the red zone, and they eventually scored on a one-yard run by Imani Cross. Mazzone was recently hospitalized for a blood clot in his lung. UCLA has not, though, offered details. UCLA had two more opportunities to tie the score, but the Huskers defense stood tall, forcing a missed field goal and sealing the win when Chris Jones intercepted Rosen in the end zone.
Josh Rosen threw for 319 yards and three touchdowns for the Bruins but shouldered some of the blame for the defense’s woes because UCLA’s offense couldn’t sustain drives to relieve pressure on his teammates. After a season that fell short of lofty expectations the Bruins’ motivation against over-matched Nebraska may be questionable and play a pivotal role in determining the outcome of this game.
Defensive tackle Maliek Collins said that’s been an important point throughout the bowl practices. “We didn’t wrap up as well”. We are excited to be here, a great venue, a great city, it is awesome to be a part of this bowl game.
Armstrong hit paydirt from three yards out to make it 37-21 at the outset of the fourth quarter, but UCLA wasn’t dead yet.
“We were having success”.
Armstrong Jr. really was the key to the comeback for Nebraska. “The players were really feeling it”.
Nebraska started the fourth quarter strong, with Armstrong sprinting to his right for a three-yard touchdown to put Nebraska up 37-21 with 14:11 left.
As for his own group, he said simply, “There’s a lot of things we’ve done well, but lot of things we have to improve on, and we’ll address those”.
The Cornhuskers, a seven-point underdog, will be looking to defend their home field when UCLA comes to town.
Bryant Shirreffs completed 10 of 17 passes for 86 yards and gained 75 yards on 19 carries for UConn (6-7). He threw touchdown passes of 31 yards to running back Jamal Morrow and 25 yards to receiver Gabe Marks.
“We’re working on getting bigger guys so we don’t get pushed around”, Mora said. On the 86-yarder, the freshman took a handoff inside, broke to the left sideline and shook off one final defender at the Southern Miss 35. But Rosen heated up in the second quarter and the passing game took over.
Three years ago, in his first UCLA bowl game, a 49-26 loss to Baylor, Mora’s team allowed 306 rushing yards and 494 total yards.
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UCLA is seeking its third straight bowl win under Jim Mora and opened as a 6.5 point favorite over the Huskers.
