Filed under: Texas, UCLA, Big 12, Pac 10AUSTIN , Texas -- It was the game most Texas football fans would like to forget, but they can't.
"Rout 66" is what it is commonly referred, the day 13 years ago a winless UCLA squad rolled into Royal-Memorial Stadium and spanked the 11th-ranked Longhorns, 66-3, in what is Texas' most demoralizing loss at home.
The Bruins (1-2) return to the scene of one of their most stunning victories Saturday for the first time since 1997, and they will be facing an undefeated and seventh-ranked Texas team.
The names on the sidelines have changed and the players on both sides of the field were barely in grade school -- if that -- the day the Pac-10 and Big 12 heavyweights met. But be assured UT fans remember, which means Mack Brown remembers.
"I do remember being on the sideline at North Carolina and Cleve Bryant had worked here before," Brown said of his director of football operations. "When the score was 66-3, Cleve Bryant walked over to me and said, `It's not a good night in Austin, Texas.' I do remember that, we were playing Stanford and we were in the fourth quarter."
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