PASASDENA, Calif. — Nico Iamaleava threw for 2 touchdowns and ran for 3 extra on Saturday as UCLA notched its first win of the season in beautiful style, knocking off No. 7 Penn State 42-37 on the Rose Bowl.
The Nittany Lions, who misplaced to Oregon at dwelling final week for his or her first lack of the season, have out of the blue dropped two straight, and will fall out of the Related Press Prime 25 after a sluggish efficiency that noticed the Bruins (1-4) take a 27-7 lead earlier than holding off the guests.
Penn State (3-2) allowed greater than 400 yards to a workforce that hadn’t held a lead all season, and is being led by interim coach Tim Skipper after DeShaun Foster was fired Sept. 14.
“It feels nice. That could be a valiant workforce and our coaches, we caught collectively. Everybody counted us out, we simply wanted to maintain going to work,” Skipper mentioned on the CBS recreation broadcast. “Each single play counted at this time. That could be a top-notch Penn State workforce. We stored our minds proper and simply continued to execute.”
The Bruins grew to become the primary 0-4 workforce to defeat a top-10 workforce since 1985, when UTEP knocked off BYU.
“Ballers at all times ball out,” Skipper mentioned of Iamaleava. “He reveals up each single week. I am glad he is on my workforce, I’ll say that.”