The Bruins were headed home to play in their home stadium in the New Year’s Day bowl game staged on their home field … and it felt like a massive letdown. UCLA was left with a crushing 49-45 defeat, not to mention taunts of “Roooose Bowl … Roooose Bowl” from outside their locker room. “You can’t have your knee down on the ground and fumble the football.” “We would have won if they wouldn’t have called a fumble that wasn’t a fumble,” said Foster, now UCLA’s running backs coach. Replay also would have erased a touchdown by Miami’s Edgerrin James in which he stepped out of bounds. The Bruins then fumbled twice, though one by receiver Brad Melsby at the Miami 26 with 3:24 left would have been overturned had instant replay been in use at the time. Regardless, UCLA appeared to have put away unranked Miami after taking a 38-21 lead late in the third quarter. Observers thought the defense was too distracted by the wristband controversy given its slipshod tackling. So it appears as if I was making the call - I was not.” So you really sell the run the opposite way when you don’t even tell your linemen. The only reason you tell the running back is because you don’t want him to go, ‘Where’s the ball?’ or try and take it out of your hands. “I didn’t just do it myself,” McNown said, “although when you do a really good quarterback keep, you’ll only tell the running back because you want the team blocking for that running back. The quarterback intentionally didn’t clue in most of his teammates about the call. McNown said he didn’t go rogue, the play having been called by Toledo. … That one will be remembered by the Trojan players in the future.”

The game was over, and Cade McNown rubbed it in. “I wonder if he didn’t do that on his own,” Danielson said, “because I’ll tell you what … I think that was a bit of a bush play, to tell you the truth.

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