2004 UCLA Bruins football team

The 2004 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. They played their home games at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California and were coached by Karl Dorrell. It was Dorrell's second season as the UCLA head coach. UCLA was not ranked in the preseason polls.^[1] The Bruins finished 6–6 overall, and were tied for fifth place in the Pacific-10 Conference with a 4–4 record.^[2] The Bruins were invited to play in the Las Vegas Bowl vs. Wyoming on December 30, 2004.

Record6–6 (4–4 Pac-10)

Headcoach

OffensivecoordinatorTom Cable (1st season)

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2004 Pacific-10 Conference football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 1 USC † $	8	–	0	13	–	0
No. 9 California	7	–	1	10	–	2
No. 19 Arizona State	5	–	3	9	–	3
Oregon State	5	–	3	7	–	5
UCLA	4	–	4	6	–	6
Oregon	4	–	4	5	–	6
Washington State	3	–	5	5	–	6
Stanford	2	–	6	4	–	7
Arizona	2	–	6	3	–	8
Washington	0	–	8	1	–	10

$ – Conference champion † – USC later vacated 2 wins (1 in conference), as well as the BCS and Pac-10 championships, due to NCAA sanctions. Rankings from AP Poll

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Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 4	12:30 pm	Oklahoma State*	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	ABC	L 20–31	48,702^[3]
September 11	9:00 am	at Illinois*	Memorial Stadium Champaign, IL	ABC	W 35–17	47,457^[4]
September 18	4:00 pm	at Washington	Husky Stadium Seattle, WA	ABC	W 37–31	65,235^[5]
October 2	4:00 pm	San Diego State*	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	FSNW2	W 33–10	52,038^[6]
October 9	3:30 pm	Arizona	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	FSN	W 37–17	57,638^[7]
October 16	4:00 pm	at No. 8 California	California Memorial Stadium Berkeley, CA	TBS	L 28–45	69,898^[8]
October 23	12:30 pm	at No. 21 Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, AZ	ABC	L 42–48	63,985^[9]
October 30	12:30 pm	Stanford	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	FSN	W 21–0	54,021^[10]
November 6	12:30 pm	Washington State	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA	FSNW2	L 29–31	62,251^[11]
November 13	12:30 pm	at Oregon	Autzen Stadium Eugene, OR	ABC	W 34–26	58,344^[12]
December 4	1:30 pm	No. 1 USC	Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA (Victory Bell)	ABC	L 24–29	88,442^[13]
December 23	7:00 pm	vs. Wyoming*	Sam Boyd Stadium Whitney, NV (Las Vegas Bowl)	ESPN	L 21–24	29,062^[14]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP All times are in Pacific time

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bruins	14	7	7	7	35
Fighting Illini	0	7	7	3	17

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bruins	20	7	7	3	37
Huskies	24	0	7	0	31

	1	2	3	4	Total
Aztecs	3	0	7	0	10
Bruins	7	13	7	6	33

	1	2	3	4	Total
Wildcats	3	0	14	0	17
Bruins	9	14	7	7	37

Key players

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bruins	0	14	0	14	28
#8 Golden Bears	7	14	7	17	45

	1	2	3	4	Total
#1 Trojans	10	10	3	6	29
Bruins	0	10	7	7	24