We're just 400 miles southeast of the Emerald Bowl tonight, bringing you live coverage of the Emerald Nuts Bowl between Florida State and the University of California at Los Angeles. Your UCLA Bruins are in the powder blue and the Seminoles are in white.
5:05 PM: The Bruins get the ball and promptly go three-and-out..
. Drew Weatherford takes over for the Seminoles.
5:08 PM: Introducing the teams tonight on ESPN are FSU head coach Bobby Bowden and for UCLA.
..Bill Walton.
I guess they couldn't find any football standouts among the Bruin alumni? Now who are you calling a basketball school?!
?
5:10 PM: FSU's Drew Weatherford just proved that he is a natural blond, throwing straight into the UCLA coverage for his eleventh interception of the season. UCLA will take over deep in their own territory after this commercial break.
5:16 PM: After nearly throwing two interceptions, UCLA's Pat Cowan gets sacked on third and long and punts it away with his back to McCovey Cove.
5:24 PM: As Dan Fouts says, "another third down, another incomplete pass." For Florida State this time, which takes the delay of game penalty to punt into McCovey Cove.
I wonder if any Barry Bonds Boats are out looking for flying footballs?
5:27 PM: Apparently the TV guys and the referees were not communicating, as ESPN had to cut away fro an AOL commercial to show a UCLA snap..
.which resulted in a fumble and a Florida State rushing touchdown on the ensuing play! Lorenzo Booker goes 25 yards for the TD!
Since ESPN cut off the bosses, we'll plug ...
go check it out.
5:31 PM: OMG UCLA still lets the juggler show his face in public. Do Bruin fans have any dignity?
!?
5:32 PM: Here we thought it was going to be a defensive battle and what does Pat Cowan do but throw a 78 yard pass to Brandon Braezell.
Bruins 7 - Seminoles 7.
5:44 PM: As we go to the break at the end of the first quarter, UCLA's Justin Medlock drives a field goal in for a 10-7 UCLA lead.
5:45 PM: According to the UCLA commercial, the school is "owned by the people of California.
All of them." Can we sell?
5:58 PM: Weatherford's receivers aren't helping him.
.. stalling a drive deep in UCLA territory, so they go for the field goal and we're tied 10-10.
6:11 PM: Touchdown UCLA! Patrich Cowan completes a 7-yard pass to the back of the end zone to Junior Taylor. UCLA 17 - FSU 10.
Could Ben Olson be regretting transferring to UCLA?
6:24 PM: After FSU went three-and-out deep in their own territory, UCLA drives and scores a field goal. The Seminoles had better figure out how to score at halftime or else this will be more of a laugher than the .
UCLA 20 - FSU 10.
6:35 PM: Apparently the UCLA defense did not get the memo that halftime hadn't started yet and allow Florida State to drive deep just before the half. Unfortunately, landed on "jump ball" so the Seminoles have to settle for a field goal.
UCLA 20 - FSU 13 as we go to halftime.
7:04 PM: Florida State pulls out all the stops with a double-backwards-pass-trick play. However, only a holding call against UCLA can help them convert.
Jump balls ain't going to cut it. FSU settles for a field goal: 20-16.
7:15 PM: UCLA blows it on fourth and inches with an illegal motion call.
D'oh!
7:16 PM: Punt blocked! Touchdown FSU!
That might be the costliest penalty we've seen in awhile!!!
FSU 23 - UCLA 20.
7:25 PM: Chris Markey just stiff armed Myron Rolle. Myron.
.. Markey's like 5'6", grab a fork and knife and eat that little guy, don't let him do that to you.
You're a football player!
7:27 PM: UCLA frosh back Chane Moline just ran for a touchdown, running over several FSU defenders. This isn't your father's Seminole defense.
Apparently, it is Mickey Andrews'. Hmm..
. UCLA 27, FSU 23.
7:32 PM: Dan Fouts: "This one's starting to have the aroma of a barn burner!
" I smell a bad analogy. And cake..
. lots of cake.
7:40 PM: Really lame UCLA items seen so far: , , powder blue uniforms.
And that blocked punt. Why are you so lame, UCLA?
7:49 PM: Unspoken football rule No.
13: you cannot have a championship team if you have three members of the same family on one team. Especially an incredibly tacky family. Case in point: The Molines with UCLA.
Let's see, they have . They have . And they have .
Someone really likes the letter C.
8:10 PM: Holy Bob Toledo! FSU goes for it on 4th and 9 and Weatherford throws a jump ball for a 30 yard touchdown.
FSU 30 - UCLA 27...
and we've got a barn-burner.
8:15 PM: Wow. How do these people get into school.
..even it's a public one?
!? UCLA's kickoff returner Derrick Williams is watching the ball go out of bounds at the three.
..then decides to stop it!
The ball goes out of bounds anyways, but the referees throw the kickoff-out-of-bounds flag. They then say that the player was out of bounds when he touched it, which he wasn't and so the play goes to the replay booth. UCLA ball at the 3.
8:24 PM: With 6 minutes left, FSU takes a ten point lead off a three yard scamper by Lorenzo Booker. Seminoles are chopping the Bruins 37-27
8:29 PM: OMG OMG OMG!!
! Pat Cowan was driving the Bruins downfield. After Logan Paulsendrops a pass at the 2 yard line and Dan Fouts compares Cowan to Roger Staubach, #12 throws the ball right to Florida State's Tony Carter, who returns it 85 yards for a touchdown.
Fans start chanting "Beat the Traffic! Beat the Traffic!"
8:46 PM: As Pat Cowan throws the game-ending interception, we have to wonder whether the Pac Ten, now 0-3, can win a bowl game this season.
.. FINAL SCORE: FSU 44 - UCLA 27
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"There is no truth in the rumors some of them were checking on their distant reletives" Did he really just say that?
2. Much as we love the 'Dogs, it's the 'Noles playing.
Check the tag filing :)
3. Insane that he touched that ball as it was going out bounds. What in the world was he thinking?
32 yard swing and a lost possession result.
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