2005_UCLA_Bruins_football_team

2005 UCLA Bruins football team

American college football season

The 2005 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. They played their home games at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California and were coached by Karl Dorrell. It was Dorrell's third season as the UCLA head coach. The Bruins finished 10–2 overall, and were third in the Pacific-10 Conference with a 6–2 record.^[1] The Bruins were invited to play in the Vitalis Sun Bowl vs. Northwestern on December 30, 2005. After giving up 22 unanswered points in the first quarter, the Bruins came back to win 50–38. The team was ranked #16 in the final AP Poll and #13 in the final Coaches Poll.

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Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 3	7:00 pm	at San Diego State*		Qualcomm Stadium San Diego, CA	ESPN2	W 44–21	50,710
September 10	7:00 pm	Rice*		Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	FSNW2	W 63–21	44,808
September 17	12:30 pm	No. 21 Oklahoma*		Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	ABC	W 41–24	56,522
October 1	7:15 pm	Washington	No. 20	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	FSNW2	W 21–17	64,249
October 8	4:30 pm	No. 10 California	No. 20	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	TBS	W 47–40	84,811
October 15	3:30 pm	at Washington State	No. 12	Martin Stadium Pullman, WA	FSN	W 44–41 ^OT	35,117
October 22	4:00 pm	Oregon State	No. 8	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	TBS	W 51–28	49,932
October 29	3:30 pm	at Stanford	No. 8	Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA	FSN	W 30–27 ^OT	42,850
November 5	3:15 pm	at Arizona	No. 7	Arizona Stadium Tucson, AZ	FSNW2	L 14–52	55,775
November 12	4:00 pm	Arizona State	No. 14	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	ABC	W 45–35	84,983
December 3	1:30 pm	at No. 1 USC	No. 11	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA (College GameDay)	ABC	L 19–66	92,000
December 30	12:00 pm	vs. Northwestern*	No. 17	Sun Bowl Stadium El Paso, TX (Sun Bowl)	CBS	W 50–38	50,426
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Pacific time

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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 2 USC † $	8	–	0	12	–	1
No. 13 Oregon	7	–	1	10	–	2
No. 16 UCLA	6	–	2	10	–	2
No. 25 California	4	–	4	8	–	4
Arizona State	4	–	4	7	–	5
Stanford	4	–	4	5	–	6
Oregon State	3	–	5	5	–	6
Arizona	2	–	6	3	–	8
Washington State	1	–	7	4	–	7
Washington	1	–	7	2	–	9

$ – Conference champion † – USC later vacated 12 wins (8 in conference) and 1 loss due to NCAA sanctions. Rankings from AP Poll