1995 UCLA Bruins football team

The 1995 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was ranked 16th in the pre=season AP Poll. In the final game of the season, the Bruins lost to the 11th-ranked Kansas Jayhawks in the Aloha Bowl, 51–30. UCLA finished in a fifth place tie in the Pacific-10 Conference.[2]

1995 UCLA Bruins football
Aloha Bowl, L 30–51 vs. Kansas
ConferencePacific-10 Conference
1995 record7–5 (4–4 Pac-10)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorBob Toledo (2nd season)
Home stadiumRose Bowl
(Capacity: 102,083)
1995 Pacific-10 Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 12 USC ^ + 6 –1 –1  9 –2 –1
Washington + 6 –1 –1  7 –4 –1
No. 18 Oregon 6 –2 –0  9 –3 –0
Stanford 5 –3 –0  7 –4 –1
UCLA 4 –4 –0  7 –5 –0
Arizona 4 –4 –0  6 –5 –0
Arizona State 4 –4 –0  6 –5 –0
California 2 –6 –0  3 –8 –0
Washington State 2 –6 –0  3 –8 –0
Oregon State 0 –8 –0  1 –10 –0
  • + – Conference co-champions
  • ^ – Rose Bowl representative per tie-breaking rules based on overall record, due to Washington-USC tie
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendance
September 25:00 pmNo. 12 Miami (FL)*No. 15
ABCW 31–860,091
September 94:00 pmat BYU*No. 12
ABCW 23–960,379
September 1612:30 pmNo. 20 OregonNo. 12
  • Rose Bowl
  • Pasadena, CA
ABCL 31–3842,537
September 2312:30 pmat Washington StateNo. 16
ABCL 15–2433,711
September 307:00 pmFresno State*
  • Rose Bowl
  • Pasadena, CA
PSNW 45–2144,449
October 144:00 pmArizona
  • Rose Bowl
  • Pasadena, CA
ABCW 17–1043,798
October 2112:30 pmat No. 23 Stanford
ABCW 42–2845,075
October 2812:30 pmCaliforniaNo. 24
  • Rose Bowl
  • Pasadena, CA
W 33–1653,614
November 43:30 pmat Arizona StateNo. 22
PSNL 33–3748,126
November 1112:30 pmNo. 22 Washington
  • Rose Bowl
  • Pasadena, CA
L 14–3850,104
November 1812:30 pmat No. 11 USC
ABCW 24–2091,363
December 2512:30 pmvs. No. 11 Kansas*
ABCL 30–5141,112
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Pacific time

Roster
1995 UCLA Bruins football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos.#NameClass
T 71 Kris Farris Fr
RB 20 Skip Hicks So
WR 4 Kevin Jordan Sr
QB 18 Cade McNown Fr
T 79 Jonathan Ogden Sr
 Defense
Pos.#NameClass
CB 35 Larry Atkins Fr
LB 50 Brendon Ayanbadejo Fr
LB 23 Donnie Edwards Sr
DE 97 Phillip Ward Jr
 Special teams
Pos.#NameClass
Head coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (S) Suspended
  • (I) Ineligible
  • Injured
  • Redshirt

Game summaries

Aloha Bowl
1 2 3 4 Total
UCLA 0 0 7 23 30
Kansas 7 10 20 14 51
See also: 1995 Aloha Bowl

First quarter scoring: KU—Jim Moore, nine-yard pass from Mark Williams (Jeff McCord converts)

Second quarter scoring: KU—June Henley, 49-yard run. McCord converts; KU—McCord, 27-yard field goal.

Third quarter scoring KU—Henley, two-yard run. McCord kick fails; UCLA—Brad Melsby, eight-yard pass from Cade McNown (Bjorn Merten kick); KU—Isaac Byrd, 77-yard pass from Williams (McCord converts); KU—Andre Carter, 27-yard pass from Williams (McCord converts)

Fourth quarter scoring UCLA—Kevin Jordan, eight-yard pass from McNown (Merten kick); UCLA — Karim Abdul-Jabbar five-yard run (Melsby pass from McNown); KU—Williams, six-yard run (McCord converts); UCLA—Melsby, seven-yard pass from McNown (Abdul-Jabbar run); KU—Eric Vann, 67-yard run (McCord converts)

Running back Karim Abdul-Jabbar was named MVP of the Aloha Bowl.

Awards and honors
  • All-Americans: [3]
  • All-Conference First Team:

References
  1. 1995 UCLA Bruins Stats | College Football at Sports-Reference.com
  2. 2012 UCLA Football Media Guide, UCLA Athletics Department, August 2012
  3. 2014 UCLA Media Guide, UCLA Athletics, 2014


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