Final from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena: UCLA 45, A&M 44

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 Ben Baby‏Verified account @Ben_Baby 2m2 minutes ago

UCLA fans are rocking now. This feels like a completely different game.

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 Ben Baby‏Verified account @Ben_Baby 2m2 minutes ago

Total yards since halftime: UCLA 270, A&M 93.

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 TexAgs‏ @TexAgs 3m3 minutes ago

Starkel is in a boot on the A&M sideline. He's back in the stadium and cheering on his teammates.

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 TexAgs‏ @TexAgs 2m2 minutes ago

Texas A&M stalls out in the red zone and will attempt a 42-yard field goal.


And the kick is... short...

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 Brent Zwerneman‏ @BrentZwerneman 2m2 minutes ago

Aggies able to chew up a little clock, but 43-yard miss by LaCamera Braden Mann w/ 4:41 left. A&M leads UCLA 44-31, Bruins take over on own 25.

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 Peter Burns‏Verified account @PeterBurnsESPN

Inexcusable play call there by A&M. 5 Min left, in FG position, you call a pass and take a sack? Just baffling.

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 TexAgs‏ @TexAgs 2m2 minutes ago

Correction: The ball was tipped on the kick.

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 Ben Baby‏Verified account @Ben_Baby 9s9 seconds ago

UCLA, once down 34 in the third quarter, is now within six with 3:10 left. Bruins still have two timeouts.

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 TexAgs‏ @TexAgs 2m2 minutes ago

Rosen throws up a prayer under pressure and finds a Bruin in the end zone. Texas A&M now leads by just six points, 44-38, with 3:10 left.

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 Brent Zwerneman‏ @BrentZwerneman 2m2 minutes ago

Texas A&M leads UCLA 44-38 w/ 3:03 left, Aggies have the ball on own 23.

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UCLA has it at their 45 2nd and 10 with 2:29 to go and no time outs.

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Capers-Smith is down for A&M.  Maybe getting a blow for his teammates

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3rd and 1 for UCLA near the 46.

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1st down pass near the A&M 40 at 1:46

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Pass completed near the A&M 24 at 1:38

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2nd and 10 after a pass is batted down

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1:30 to go, 2nd and 10 from the 24, delay of game

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UCLA receiver caught it beyond the sticks but gave ground

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On 3rd and 1, false start UCLA

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3rd and 6 near the A&M 20, 1:07

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Rosen's pass is incomplete

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4th and 6 near the 20 for UCLA

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1st down UCLA near the A&M 10, :48

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TD UCLA

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Rosen pass in the end zone with :43 to go

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Some here are wondering if Rosen got his TD too soon

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A&M 44  UCLA 45  :43 4th

PAT is good

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 Peter Burns‏Verified account @PeterBurnsESPN 7m7 minutes ago

Reminder: We'll have full coverage of this A&M game on @SECNetwork right afterwards......LOTS to talk about either way.

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 Brent Zwerneman‏ @BrentZwerneman 46s46 seconds ago

Bruins convert a 4th and 6, then a 10-yard TD pass to grab 45-44 lead over A&M with 43 seconds left. Unbelievable.

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Christian Kirk lets it go out of the end zone

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A&M ball from the 25, :43, three time outs

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Mond is in at QB

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Mond's pass is incomplete, :39

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Mond throws it away.  :33, 3rd and 10 coming

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Bomb is incomplete.  4th and 10. :27

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Mond keeps for the first down, just barely

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He might be short if they go to replay

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 TexAgs‏ @TexAgs 4m4 minutes ago

Texas: What a terrible opener

Baylor: Hold my beer

A&M: lololololololololol y'all ain't seen nothin'

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Upon review, Mond was short of the first down.  UCLA wins on the biggest comeback in school history.

Kevin Sumlin's seat is on fire.

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Arkansas Razorbacks‏Verified account @ArkRazorbacks

Who still needs Southwest Classic tickets??

http://bit.ly/2gvPGy8

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Ben Baby‏Verified account @Ben_Baby

Sumlin said Donovan Wilson and Nick Starkel will be evaluated tomorrrow.


Sumlin hints that Keith Ford may have been injured in the fourth quarter.

Kevin Sumlin said kicker Daniel LaCamera is going to be evaluated as well.


Woould not have been available for a long FG attempt at the end of game.

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Greg Rajan‏Verified account @GregRajan

A&M/UCLA game story with quotes via @BrentZwerneman

PASADENA, Calif. – One half into Texas A&M's season opener at UCLA on Sunday night, Aggies coach Kevin Sumlin looked like he might be up for a contract extension.

By game's end, A&M fans were wondering if he had actually climbed on the team plane for the longest flight of his life. He did, but the heat on Sumlin's seat intensified by 35, or the same amount of points the Aggies surrendered in the Bruins' massive comeback, as UCLA prevailed 45-44.

"I told the team at halftime not to look at the scoreboard, let's just play football, one play at a time," UCLA coach Jim Mora Jr. said.

Aggies will never forget their first visit to the Rose Bowl, for all the wrong reasons and thanks to the massive thorn UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen wielded in poking the A&M defense repeatedly in the second half.

"You don't explain it," a mystified Sumlin said. "No excuses, we just didn't get it done as coaches."

The comeback was the second largest in FBS history, next to Michigan State needing 36 points to finally prevail against Northwestern 11 years ago.

"We knew this wasn't going to be an easy game, but we didn't know we were going to be down by 28 points at halftime," Mora said. "But I saw a team that trusted each other, and had confidence in each other."

A&M with about four minutes remaining in the third quarter led 44-10, but that 34-point lead turned out to be fools' gold, considering Rosen engineered five consecutive scoring drives the rest of the way, with the last four capped by touchdown passes.

"We always say the game isn't over until it's over," A&M senior safety Armani Watts said. "So, that's no excuse. We have to overcome adversity, and finish games."

The Aggies are trying to better their string of three consecutive 8-5 finishes, and they started each of the three previous seasons with a victory. Strong starts to seasons had never been a problem under the sixth-year coach Sumlin; closing them out on the winning end has. The Aggies are 2-7 against SEC competition in Novembers over the past three seasons, and Sumlin fired his longtime strength coach in the offseason and replaced him with Mark Hocke, a former Alabama and Florida State assistant strength coach and former Georgia head strength coach.

With two years after this season remaining on a contract paying him $5 million annually, Sumlin's job was in jeopardy before this season even kicked off, and for a while it looked like the Aggies had responded to his "get tough" act in the offseason led by Hocke. A&M wilted with the big lead, however, and with one of the Aggies' toughest schedules remaining since they entered the SEC in 2012, it will be tough for them to top the eight wins of the past few years.

As expected redshirt freshman Nick Starkel started at quarterback, as he and true freshman Kellen Mond both played multiple series in the first half. Starkel left the game in the third quarter, however, with an apparent ankle injury, and an ineffective Mond played most of the second half, when the Bruins began their eye-popping comeback.

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Brent Zwerneman‏ @BrentZwerneman 9h9 hours ago

Bruins convert a 4th and 6, then a 10-yard TD pass to grab 45-44 lead over A&M with 43 seconds left. Unbelievable.

Colonel Potter‏ @laurakfillault
Replying to @BrentZwerneman

Brent. This is absolutely believable.

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 Scott Bell‏Verified account @ScottBellDMN 10h10 hours ago

Texas A&M was at 99% win probability or higher for more than half of today's game, according to http://ESPN.com 's formula.


Might be time to add some new and recent data points in their models.

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SEC Network‏Verified account @SECNetwork 3h3 hours ago

#GigEm

OOPS! Someone in aggie land might want to revise that graphic..........................

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Upon review, Mond was short of the first down.  UCLA wins on the biggest comeback in school history.

Kevin Sumlin's seat is on fire.

Richard Davenport‏ @ArRecruitingGuy 10h10 hours ago

They must have unbelievable security there. How do you not rush the field?

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 Bruce Feldman‏Verified account @BruceFeldmanCFB 10h10 hours ago

John Chavis must hate the Rose Bowl>I remember when his Vols also had a nightmarish 2nd half falling apart vs UCLA in Fulmer's last YR at UT

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The Rose bowl where John Chavis  dreams come to die!

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 Mickey Ryan‏Verified account @MickeyRyan1045

Meanwhile, the A&M AD is like....
https://twitter.com/MickeyRyan1045/status/904543589664993281