Beat sc of Course But Since it Was '98, Beat Miami

1998-Sophomore in high school. I had recently transferred schools over my refusal to adhere to uniform policy. Looking back on it I think it was because I was going through my Punk rock phase and I was tired of wearing uniforms to school for the previous ten years. Anyways I had kept in touch with a few people and one of them was a huge sc fan. We would debate everything concerning the rivalry. During the week he approached me about going to the game at the Rose Bowl. Neither of us had tickets so we decided to be hard core and bus it up there and buy tickets from scalpers. Pops kind of got mad that I went with a trojie, but after he revealed he was only messing I was off.

As we entered the Arroyo Secco, it was a scene. Half blue and half red littered the landscape. We decided to walk around and take it all in before breaking the law and obtaining tickets. Realizing that neither one of us would be caught dead at our opponents tailgate we split up. Now I really don't remember what he did but, my fellow Bruins and I partied mightily before the game. We were ranked in number one in this new thing called the BCS and if we won the next two games we would play for the national championship. Now the mere thought of UCLA winning it all in football was enough to drink but to actually be alive to witness it happen was unthinkable.

Two more was all we needed.

So after an hour of partying it up in our respective fan bases we met near the famous sign and picked up some tickets from what appeared to be an sc alum. After jokingly voicing my mistrust in him (even though I really meant it, he was just too stupid to realize it) we entered the stadium. If I remember correctly ( damn alcohol consumption) it was sort of back and forth for the two quarters. Towards the end of the half we recognized some people who had also purchased tickets from the same scumbag that we did. As they were trying to get to their seats some other people had come with tickets for the same location that they had. As the usher was coming to resolve this I noticed that the people we had recognized had shifted their attention to us. After 15 mins of evading Rose Bowl security we decided to split to the south end zone which happened to be full of red. Now this was going to end with me either being verbally assaulted to the point of tears or me running my mouth to epic proportions.

One more was all we needed.

We ended up winning 34-17. I decided to split up again to party it up with the student section. The celebration culminated with cheerleaders bring out a yell horn that hadn't been used since our championship season of 1954. For that one day we were on top of the world. We had not only beaten the scum from across town but, at that point we had done it eight straight years, the longest streak in the history of this storied rivalry, and we were on our way to claiming college football's top prize. All we needed was to beat Miami next weekend in a make up game that was reschedlued due to Hurricane Georges. No matter. We had the nation's longest winning streak. Nothing could stop us now.


49-45 Miami.

BEAT SC.