No. 8 UCLA Bruins vs Minnesota Golden Gophers Highlights ｜ FOX College Football

We've got the eighth-ranked U.C.L.A. Bruins in town to take on P.J. Fleck and his Minnesota Golden Gophers. Field, third down and five at the 30. Empty backfield for Dieffenbach. With time, scans, over the middle, and caught! Samaj Morgan, the Michigan transfer, down at the 15! Money player at the 19-yard line. Dieffenbach, with time, off his back foot, in the corner, and incomplete. Intended for Landon Ellis, so UCLA will settle for the 37-yard field goal attempt. Mateen Bagiani, it's up and good. T.J. Thomas in the backfield. And he'll hand it to him. Straight ahead. Thomas. Nice cut. And he'll dive forward. Get more than the first down. So a good challenge by P.J. Fleck. Here's Lindsey underneath on the slant pattern. And he has his man. It's Jalen Smith. For Minnesota. Lindsey will let it fly. Steps up in the pocket. Underneath. And he throws a strike. Beautiful throw by Drake Lindsey. This one from 56 yards away. Remember last week he hit a 60-yarder. Good snap. Clean hold, Driswicki. No, he pushed it. Wide right. First miss of the season. Wayne Knight in the backfield. Dieffenbach, he'll run it himself and pick up a first down and more. He's got a little wiggle to his game. Yeah, this is a really good job of reading off of this run, and then he sees the seam on the opposite side, and he's able to exploit it. First down to the 44, checks it down. Wayne Knight, great out of the backfield. Head of steam, still on the move, and finally knocked out of bounds around the 15. Diefenbach. Pumps, steps up, runs it, cuts it inside, and is chopped down inside the five-yard line. Lieber, Knight, in the backfield, Knight, around the corner, touchdown, UCLA, Wayne Knight. Speed to burn. He hit the edge and hit Hayter. So he's coming across just on the sweep over here, but Gerlach, number 19, he's got him dead to rights, and he just outruns him to the corner. That's the acceleration that I'm hearing. Lindsey, with time in the pocket, scans, near side, throws a strike, Jalen Smith, and Smith still running, cuts it inside, and finally tumbles down to the 25. They've got to play great on special teams, and we've seen a couple of returns in giving them good field position. On second and six, Xavier Ford, straight ahead, he gains five, Taylor remains as the Wildcat, runs it, looking for the first, and... I don't know. He just needed to get right there to the 30-yard line. You can see he gets the head of steam and just plows forward. Yeah, he did. Lindsey sprints out, steps up, breaks a tackle. Nicely done. Dumps it off, and it's caught. Simpson, Jacob Simpson inside the five. Great creativity. Three, 11th play of the drive. Taylor looking for that touchdown. Falls. But he's down at the one. Jackson comes up and makes first contact. No, I think he was up, Gus. I think he kept himself up. That's right. That knee never touched down. He did a great job keeping himself above the ground. Watch his left hand right here. He keeps himself up right there, and then he's able to keep the left knee off the ground. He reaches for the goal line. That should be a touchdown. Previous play and determined that the runner didn't break the plane before the knees were down. It is a touchdown. Touchdown, Minnesota. Darius Taylor, deep in box, out of the pocket. Finds a wide open receiver, Brian Rowe Jr., and Dieffenbach throws a bullet, 26-yard gain. Dieffenbach, under pressure, Dieffenbach, buying time, dumps it off, and it's complete. Wonderful job by Ty Dieffenbach. He finds Leland Smith, Woods, and he's hit as soon as he takes a football by Joey Gerlach. He came in there in a hurry, didn't he? Times up the snap count, and then he's right through the line of scrimmage. Big opportunity for the Gophers' defense. UCLA staying on the ground, and it's Anthony Woods, and he will not pick up the first down. Dieffenbach hands it to Knight, and he will not get it. The Minnesota defense holds. Nestor. With the tackle, and the guard for UCLA just never comes around to get this block on the edge. And then the edge, Jon Nestor, transfer from Iowa two years ago, is able to come in clean, and Knight's unable to get away from him, and it's a fourth down stop. There is a UCLA player down, but P.J. Fleck fired up. Beautiful job by Nestor coming in and support from that corner position. It's got a third and four. It's third and nine at the 21. They'll hand it off to Taylor. And he won't get much. Interesting sequence for the Gophers offense as they will punt it away with 1:42 to go. First down at the 33. Dieffenbach over the middle. And it is! Intercepted! Maverick Baranowski! And with 55 seconds to go, first mistake of the game for the Bruins. So he's trying to get around the linebacker, but... Baranowski does a great job defending his area. He knows where the tight end is at. And as they're trying to hit Noah Fox Flores across the middle, Baranowski is right there. That is an ill-advised throw from Ty Dieffenbach. Can't force the ball over the middle, in particular against a good defense. Lindsey, nearside the hitch to Jalen Smith. He'll turn it up and gain 7 1⁄2, maybe 8 on the play. Second down and one. Lindsey can't take the sack. Lindsey, and he throws an interception. But a flag on the play. Dante Lovett. Holding. Defense number 21. Ten-yard penalty. Automatic first down. So he's out here working against Jalen Smith, number eight. And you can see there's the hold. And then he's there as that. Got it up. And good. And that is the end of the first half. Drake Lindsey has to take care of the football. And Lindsey hands it off to Taylor. Taylor with a lane. He spins forward and picks up the first down. Some hard running. Opening series of the second half for the Gophers. Another run. Ford. This time UCLA ready for him. This time from 56 yards. He missed the 56-yarder earlier, hit a 38-yarder. This one from 56 again, and he pushed it wide right. His second miss of the season. 38 opening series for the Bruins here in the second half. Wayne Knight in the backfield. They give it to him. He's bottled up, breaks it outside, sprints down the sideline. Wayne Knight spinning, still on the move, and goes down at the 30. What a run. I want you to watch Wayne Knight. And just he takes away the angles of the defender. Right there, the defender's got him. That's Jon Nestor who had that fourth down stop earlier in the game. And Wayne Knight just gets around him so easily because of that first step, that burst that he has and the quickness. Again, he is a small player, 5'7", 193. Morgan had the big 55-yard reception in the first half. And they'll throw it over the middle, caught! Touchdown UCLA! Noah Fox Flores with his fourth reception of the season, first touchdown of the year, 27 yards. This is a great job of putting the safety in a blender. Watch, he's going to go outside because the wide receiver goes outside and then the tight end is right down the seam. Nestor can't follow him and it's wide open and Dieffenbach Bach is able to spot him. Good protection by the offensive line, and it's Fox Flores in for the touchdown. Inside his own 20. And this one blocked. Out of bounds at the 20-yard line. And you can tell Weston just took too long on this Aussie-style punt, and Lieber gets through the personal protector and took it right off the face. He blocked it with his face mask. Great job extending over the front leg. Weston takes too much time, and there it is, right off the face mask, and now a short field for UCLA. First down and goal at the nine. Here's a quick inside handoff. Thomas slashes. Touchdown, Bruins, but a flag on the play. Holy. Offense number 55, 10-yard penalty, the key first down. That's Eugene Brooks. Here's 55 middle of your screen. He's working on 99. There's the little tug of the jersey right there. And that's the holding that they call. Wayne Knight back in the game at running back. And they'll throw it. Under pressure. Ball loose. Picked up by the Gophers. Diepenbach under pressure. Fumbles it. And Minnesota. Theo Randle with the recovery, and he'll take that one with him. Two turnovers for UCLA. We'll be right back. Let's see what Minnesota can do with it. So they got out of the quick screen. They'll go with the original play. Here's that quick screen you mentioned. T.J. Thomas, great run after the catch. Lindsey, over the middle, caught, down the field. Noah Jennings inside the five. Lindsey. Lobs it, ends up, caught, touchdown, George Roll. What a catch by George Roll. First, he's going to block initially. There's the play fake and the play action, and now just lobbing it up and watch him extend, go up in the air, and he's able to bring it down for a touchdown. Beautiful throw from Drake Lindsey and great execution from George Roll. That's his first touchdown of his career. Touchdown catch, and we're not at a 17. Dieffenbach will throw it. Over the middle. Caught. Mizell. Touchdown. And just like that, 75 yards by Dieffenbach. Throws a dime. I tell you, this is a great throw. He's going to hit this ball right down the seam. But watch Dieffenbach just step up in the pocket. And then he keeps his platform. And he keeps his eyes down the field. He steps up away from the defensive end. Mizell wins big right there. Dre Galenzi over the middle. And caught! Javon Tracy, how did he hold on to that ball? And Jalen Woods, good legal hit, doesn't go high, he just goes right to the chest with that left shoulder. And Lindsey will let it fly again. Lindsey, sideline toss, and caught! Jalen Smith! This is just an unreal throw and a great catch. That ball is put in a perfect spot, coverage was not bad. Lindsey in trouble. Breaks a tackle. Got it away. And incomplete. Taylor the target. But Simeo knocked that one down. And it's good. 24-20. 7.31 to go in the fourth. First and ten at the 25. Dieffenbach throws a long one again. Caught. Mizell again. Down the sideline. Aiden Mizell. 75 yards, touchdown. UCLA, Mizell's second 75 yard touchdown of this game. Hard touchdown of this game. Wow. Well, when you get safeties down, what happens is that the corner out here has to play a little outside leverage, and then you just get to run right past them. So they get play action in the backfield to keep those safeties down, and then a little bit of a half roll, and you gain some of that ground in order to allow Mizell to run past the corner, which he's able to do. Almost the exact same play that Iowa used to score. Nothing like having your dad on the sidelines with you. Lindsey, he'll try his own gun, and it is intercepted. Scooter Jackson. So he's not trying to put hands on the receiver. He turns his hips, and he's going to run with him down the field, and this is just not enough air on the ball. He threw it with too flat a trajectory. Away from their ninth win of the season. Knight with that quickness. Knight out of bounds. What is it now, 20 in their points per game? That's wild. Wayne Knight, the Wildcat, and look at him go. Feline quickness, Wayne Knight. Going to Indiana, and then now what Chesney is doing here at UCLA. Dieffenbach, over the middle, and incomplete on third and 11. Got it up, and it is good. 34-20, UCLA. He has watched a ton of football based on the rankings that they gave us on Tuesday night. This team should definitely move up. They're undefeated. They were behind a couple of two-loss teams, one-loss teams. They deserve to be much higher than that after a resounding win here on the road at Minnesota. First 9-0 start since 1998. Fourth time in the program's history. And boy, oh boy, have they found themselves a great backup quarterback who is now firmly entrenched as the starter as Ty Dieffenbach.