It's rivalry weekend in SoCal!
From the UCLA website:
UCLA will travel across town to square off with USC in a Pac-12 contest set for a 1 p.m. PT kickoff on Saturday, Nov. 20. The game will be televised by FOX. The UCLA Learfield Radio Network will broadcast the contest, which will also be aired over ESPN Radio, SiriusXM and the Varsity App.UCLA has four wins and USC has five over the course of the last nine series battles. The winning team has averaged 39.4 points in those nine victories and has scored at least 34 points in all but one game (2017 - 28 points). The Trojans have captured the last two meetings in the series with UCLA's last win coming in 2018 at the Rose Bowl. The most recent Bruin win in the Coliseum was in the 2013 season. UCLA has come up short in its last three trips across town, including a 52-35 setback in 2019.
This will be the 91st meeting of the teams. UCLA trails in the series 32-49*-7 (* - two USC wins in 2004 and 2005 have been vacated due to NCAA penalties). Both teams will wear their home jerseys, a tradition restarted for the 2008 game. The winner of the game will take home the Victory Bell.
In 2019 at the Coliseum, the Trojans defeated the Bruins, 52-35, in the highest-scoring series game in 23 years. UCLA quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson accounted for much of UCLA's offense, passing for 367 yards and three touchdowns and rushing for 64 yards and one touchdown. Tight end Devin Asiasi and receiver Kyle Philips each had career days for the Bruins, with Asiasi finishing with a team-high and career-best 141 yards, and Philips recording career-high numbers in catches (12) and yards (123). USC quarterback Kedon Slovis threw for a USC single-game record 515 yards, tossing four touchdowns in the game.
The last UCLA series win came in the Rose Bowl in 2018. In that Bruin victory, Joshua Kelley ran for a series-record 289 yards while dealing USC a 34-27 verdict. Trailing by six points in the fourth quarter, Kelley broke through the line and raced 55 yards for the go-ahead score with 10:39 to play in the game. JJ Molson added a pair of field goals for the final margin.
THE WATCHLIST
• Victory Bell — The winner of the UCLA-USC football game is awarded the Victory Bell. The 295-pound bell originally hung atop a Southern Pacific freight locomotive. It was given to the UCLA Alumni Association in 1939 and then, in 1941, it was taken by a group of USC students. A year later, the student body presidents of both schools signed an agreement that the winner of the football game would keep possession for the next year.
• Crosstown Cup — The winner of the UCLA-USC football game will register 10 points in the Crosstown Cup, a trophy presented annually to the school with the most successful year in athletic competitions against the other. UCLA leads the current race for the Cup by a 25-10 count.
• At 3-1, UCLA is tied with Oregon for the best road record by a Pac-12 team ... only UCLA, Oregon and Utah have as many as three road wins in '21.
• UCLA's 431 rushing attempts this season are the most among Pac-12 teams this season.
• UCLA earned bowl-game qualification with a win last week over Colorado ... it last played in a bowl game after the 2017 season - a loss in the Cactus Bowl vs. Kansas State in Phoenix
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