Not only will it be the first afternoon game at the Coliseum in which both teams will wear their home colors since 1981, but it comes with stakes. The Rose Bowl is on the line.
Or more specifically, the the Pac-12 South is up for grabs in a one-game take-all on the last week of the season for the first time ever. In 2012, the game decided the division winner, but it wasn’t quite like this, as UCLA still played Stanford the following week to end the regular season.
Today is a City Championship with playoff-level stakes.