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Before the season, UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel repeated his expectations ad nauseam to anyone who would listen: Bowl or bust.

More stuff about Saturday's USC/UCLA game: Signature Victories : USC's top 10 wins over the Bruins.

Kai Maiava is the last man standing on the UCLA offensive line. At one point in preseason, as many as four local players were in the running to start for the Bruins.

UCLA knew facing the No. 15-ranked defense in the country would present a daunting physical task.

Bowled over? OK, to get one of the Pacific 10 Conference's automatic bowl bids, UCLA would need USC to lose its last two games and California to win at least one, or .

UCLA 24, Washington 23 Washington scraps together a drive, getting two third-down conversions.

LOS ANGELESXavier Su'a-Filo isn't one to worry about tradition. In nearly four decades of coaching UCLA lines, Bob Palcic had not had a freshman open the season as a starter on an offensive line.

Even the relentlessly positive around the UCLA football program were tested Wednesday.

UCLA has played eight games this season and still the Bruins are looking for a tailback to take some of the load off Johnathan Franklin .

In the fourth quarter of UCLA's 26-19 loss to Oregon State on Saturday, head coach Rick Neuheisel saw his redshirt freshman quarterback come of age.

This was the Kevin Prince who UCLA fans kept waiting to see. This was the Prince who UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel and offensive coordinator Norm Chow kept waiting to see.

It was evident that a four-game losing streak didn't take the fight out of UCLA.

The UCLA football team can thank Kai Maiava for a larger Hawaiian presence on the offensive line.

Let's get back to football and talk a little bit more about the game this Saturday.

Just going by records and recent history, today's Rose Bowl matchup between UCLA and Cal appears to be a toss-up. Both teams sport 3-2 records.

For weeks, Christian Ramirez stood and watched and waited and stewed and crossed his arms.

When is a 3-0 team not just a 3-0 team? When that team went 4-8 just a season ago.

Much was written during UCLA's fall football camp about the team's patchwork offensive line in 2008.

Three weeks into the season, UCLA is back in training camp. In Tuesday's practice, what was old was new again - the perfect footwork, the precise handwork, the exact head placement - and technique was at a premium.

Move over Matt Barkley and Tate Forcier. Richard Brehaut, UCLA's true freshman quarterback, is expected to make his first college start Saturday.