Joshua Kelley could feel the excitement of the UCLA-USC rivalry, even if he couldn’t experience it.
The Bruins tailback was forced to watch from the sideline last year as he sat out the season because of transfer rules.
“The energy, the atmosphere, it was incredible,” Kelley said this week. “I was just sitting there thinking like, ‘I can’t wait for the opportunity to be out there.’ ”
The transfer from UC Davis enters the game as the fifth-leading rusher in the Pac-12, averaging 99.9 yards a game even though he didn’t take over as the Bruins’ primary tailback until the fourth game of the season.