Dramatic Finishes in USC-UCLA games

Over the years, USC and UCLA have been involved in many games featuring dramatic finishes at the end. Here's a sampling of some of the more famous contests.

1939 -USC 0, UCLA 0.
Bobby Robertson knocked down Ned Matthews's 4-yard pass in the end zone with less than five minutes to play to preserve the tie for USC, sending the Trojans to the Rose Bowl.

1958 - USC 15, UCLA 15.
Luther Hayes returned a kickoff 74 yards for a TD and Tom Maudlin ran in for the two-point conversion with 6:50 to play to get the Trojans a tie.

1967-USC 21, UCLA 20.
O.J. Simpson ran 64 yards for a TD with 10:38 left in the fourth quarter to give USC a Rose Bowl berth and the national championship. It is one of the most famous runs in college football history.

1977 - USC 29, UCLA 27.
UCLA needed to win to get to the Rose Bowl, but it was USC's Frank Jordan who would kick the game-winning field goal, a 38-yarder with 2 seconds left, to boost the Trojans, 29-27.

1982 - UCLA 20, USC 19
The first of the UCLA home games at the Rose Bowl, USC scored a touchdown with the clock reading 0:00, and went for two ... but Karl Morgan sacked Scott Tinsley before the Trojan QB could get the ball off, so UCLA won, 20-19.

1989 - USC 10, UCLA 10
USC was Rose Bowl bound, but 3-7 UCLA had a chance to win at the end ... but Alfredo Velasco's 54-yard field goal attempt smacked square into the crossbar. The Bruins had lost 3 yards on the previous play.

1990-USC 45, UCLA 42.
In the highest-scoring and perhaps most thrilling USC-UCLA game, Todd Marinovich threw a game-winning 23-yard TD pass to Johnnie Morton with 16 seconds left. The contest featured a 42-point fourth quarter (including three TD's in the final 3:09) with four lead changes. Morton also caught a 21-yard scoring TD from Marinovich with 3:09 to play to give USC a short-lived 38-35 lead, but Kevin Smith scored on a 1-yard run with 1:19 to go to put the Bruins up 42-38.

2000 - USC 38, UCLA 35.
Carson Palmer, who threw for 350 yards and four TD passes, guided the Trojans from their 35 to UCLA's 18 yardline at 35-35 tie. Then David Bell, the third-string kicker, made his first field goal of the season with just nine seconds left to deliver a 38-35 victory over UCLA Saturday at the Rose Bowl.