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Jeffro_TBS's avatar

I think UCLA will score, but I’m not confident we reach double digits. Penn St will beat the 25.5 spread. I think we’re reduced to esoteric prop bets now, like will the ‘blue out’ be UCLA powder blue, or PSU dark blue? If more PSU fans show up than Bruins, is it a home game?

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Henry Tse's avatar

Given the malignancy metastasizing within UCLA football, any team with decent defense, let alone offense, will be very formidable. Enough said.

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WarPlanner's avatar

It's OK, Henry! I got my bottle of Nembutal and quart of Jack at the ready and should have myself "comfortably numb" by the end of the first quarter. May I suggest full game YouTube videos of any number of the victorious UCLA-Toejam tiffs in our past?

..here's the fourth quarter of the '12 game - the bRUINS 38 Toejams 28..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqtoK0CaUJQ

..or there's Leave It to Beaver reruns as well.

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Clio 98's avatar

Apropos of nothing, when we travelled to Happy Valley last season to watch our Bruins, walking around before the game we were invited into a large tailgate by a group of Penn State fans, one of the organizers of which turned out to be Dom DeLuca's Dad... they, and most of the other fans (not just the friends/family/boosters of the program at that tailgate) we met before and after the game were among the coolest fans we've met travelling (unlike, say, Oklahoma) so hopefully for those of us going, the atmosphere at the Rose Bowl, at least on the golf course, will be fun/not obnoxious, even if the game itself is going to be a disaster...

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Tamara's avatar

I am looking forward to seeing what a truly great football team looks like... Penn State also rose from the ashes and their problems were horrific so there's that to ponder...

On a bright note for Jelly 2.0... He will widely claim how the Rosebowl is BACK with all the seats overflowing with BLUE as he reads the room filled with NAVY.

Now with his BLUE OUT firmly embraced in his heart as a huge success beyond his wildest dreams, he will enter Morgan on Monday with an ever greater love of himself and his intrinsic genius.

And that is where we stand in the empty halls of history.

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Jeffro_TBS's avatar

Yeah, the concept of a Blue Out is just embarrassing atm. Maybe fill some seats first. I think Joe did a piece on the Rose Bowl contract and the difficulty of moving, but maybe this needs to be looked at. Maybe not even Sofi, but share the LA Galaxy stadium?

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Jeffro_TBS's avatar

And to continue the ‘tone deaf’ theme, UCLA Athletics just dropped a video of the donor trip to Chicago. Watching it you’d think everything is sunshine and blue sky. 🤦‍♂️

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UCLA4EVER's avatar

Anybody notice the spread has gone down to 24.5 from 25.5? Maybe Jarmond placed a small wager on UCLA--probably not, because even he knows he has created a perfect shit show of a football team.

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