UCLA announce 68,213 in attendance for LSU football game

PASADENA — Athletic manager Martin Jarmond and UCLA spearheaded an effort to bring much fans to Rose Bowl Stadium for the nationally televised shot crippled Saturday against LSU.

The assemblage announced 68,213 were successful attendance for the 2nd of a three-game nonconference homestand. It was the 2nd consecutive crippled that started astatine 90 degrees astatine kickoff.

UCLA offered escaped tickets to each students for the LSU crippled successful precocious August arsenic portion of the effort to assistance gully a assemblage successful its favor.

The LSU instrumentality basal was expected to question good for a uncommon West Coast travel but Hurricane Ida touching down successful Louisiana past week whitethorn person had an impact. It’s the archetypal clip LSU has played successful the Rose Bowl.

Usually, UCLA students are asked to acquisition a “Den Pass,” which grants entree to each location shot and men’s hoops games on with precedence postseason tickets among different perks.

Students person not returned to field for the autumn 4th and classes don’t statesman until Sept. 28.

A abstracted announcement was made stating Southern California precocious schoolhouse students were besides invited to be for free. Those tickets “reached capacity,” according to the UCLA website.

“Adult” tickets for UCLA-LSU are listed astatine $115 earlier further summons fees. The assemblage sent retired changeless reminders connected societal media to anyone readying to be the crippled to get and deterioration look coverings, but erstwhile eating and drinking, careless of vaccination status.

The Rose Bowl has had the quality to spot “well implicit 100,000” fans but the astir caller seating capableness was 91,136, according to the UCLA athletics website.

The stadium had a chunk of the seating connected the northbound extremity covered with six tarps, 4 of them each holding a missive to spell retired U-C-L-A.

UCLA announced 32,982 were successful attendance past Saturday during the lopsided 44-10 season-opening triumph implicit Hawai’i. The crippled started successful the day with temperatures successful the precocious 90s.

A assemblage spokesperson told the Southern California News Group that the maximum capableness for the Rose Bowl with tarps was 69,747. The fixed numbers would mean the stadium was 47.3% afloat for the Hawai’i game.

Visuals shown passim the crippled astatine the Rose Bowl sparked speech connected societal media and nationalist vigor among different places implicit the weekend.

It was the archetypal clip successful 637 days that fans were allowed successful the stadium to ticker a Bruins’ location game, but they weren’t rushing back.

The play opener was 1 of the archetypal nationalist assemblage sporting events to instrumentality spot since L.A. County loosened immoderate wellness restrictions and vaccines were fixed retired this year.

The Bruins’ grounds debased for a location crippled is 32,513 against Oregon State connected Nov. 7, 1992.

The Bruins finished the 2019 shot play with an mean attendance of 43,848, their lowest astatine the Rose Bowl since moving to the venue successful 1982. The Rose Bowl’s seating configuration for location games has the capableness to clasp 80,616 for wide admittance games.

From 2009 to 2018, the highest attendance mean was 76,650 successful 2014 (six location games) and 70,285 successful 2013 (six location games).

DTR MOVING UP

Quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson moved up of Troy Aikman for seventh spot connected UCLA’s all-time passing list, aft connecting with choky extremity Greg Dulcich for a 75-yard touchdown with 12:20 near successful the 2nd 4th Saturday.

The touchdown was the archetypal play of the Bruins’ archetypal possession of the 2nd quarter, tying the crippled astatine 7. Thompson-Robinson completed a 36-yard walk to receiver Kazmeir Allen connected the opening thrust against LSU to necktie Aikman.

Thompson-Robinson entered Saturday’s crippled needing conscionable 37 yards to determination up the list. Cade McNown (1995-98) leads each UCLA quarterbacks with 10,708 yards.

Thompson-Robinson’s touchdown to Dulcich besides breaks the quarterback’s necktie with Aikman for seventh connected the all-time vocation touchdown list.

Thompson-Robinson’s 2nd touchdown walk of the night, a 14-yard touchdown walk to receiver Chase Cota successful the 3rd quarter, besides moved him up the school’s all-time vocation passing touchdown list. His 43rd vocation touchdown walk enactment him up of Cory Paus for sixth connected the list. Brett Hundley (2011-14) is No. 1 connected the database with 75 vocation touchdowns.

Aikman was successful attendance and among the erstwhile players that stood connected the tract astatine the extremity of the archetypal 4th to grant erstwhile UCLA manager Terry Donahue.

Donahue died successful July, pursuing a two-year conflict with cancer. He was 77. The Bruins besides deterioration a sticker connected their helmet with Donahue’s sanction connected it.

Aikman played the archetypal 2 years of his assemblage vocation with Oklahoma earlier transferring to UCLA arsenic a inferior successful 1987. He played 24 games with the Bruins, completing 406 of 627 passes for 5,298 yards and 41 touchdowns implicit 2 seasons.

Aikman was picked by the Dallas Cowboys with the archetypal wide prime successful the 1989 NFL Draft.

FAMILIAR FACES

The marquee crippled drew notable alumni to the game, including Aikman and Rams linebacker Kenny Young (UCLA). Young’s Rams teammate and erstwhile LSU violative lineman Andrew Whitworth was besides seen astatine the game.

Andy Meyers served arsenic the Bruins’ honorary skipper for the game. He was an violative lineman for the Bruins from 1995-1998. He was a two-time All-Pac-10 player.

The assemblage besides recognized the Bruins who competed oregon coached during the Olympics this summertime astatine halftime including:

Adam Krikorian (USA women’s h2o polo golden medal-winning coach), Maddie Musselman (USA women’s h2o polo golden medalist), Alex Wolf (USA men’s h2o polo),  Josh Speraw (USA men’s volleyball coach), Patty Tavatanakit (Thailand women’s golf), Brooklyn Moors (Canada gymnastics), Jordan Chiles (USA gymnastics metallic medalist), Emma Malabuyo (USA gymnastics alternate), Angela Dugalić (Serbia women’s basketball), Tairia Flowers (USA softball adjunct coach)

INJURY REPORT

UCLA halfway Sam Marrazzo did not play Saturday arsenic helium recovers from an undisclosed injury. He besides missed the play opener against Hawai’i.