2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl (December)

August 2023 Fight Hunger Bowl Kraft December 31 2011 2011 AT&T Park San Francisco, California Illinois Fighting Illini 6–6 Vic Koenning (interim) Big Ten 0 3 7 10 UCLA Bruins 6–7 Mike Johnson (interim) Pac-12 0 7 0 7 Illinois by 2½Odds http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/odds/spread foxsports.com December 5, 2011 Terry Hawthorne (Defensive)Nathan Scheelhaase (Offensive) Jeff Hilyer (Sun Belt) 29,878 750,000–825,000 per team ESPN Carter Blackburn (Play-by-Play)Brock Huard (Analyst)Shelley Smith (Sidelines) 2.3 2011 (Jan) 2012 The 2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, the 10th edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on December 31, 2011 at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California as part of the 2011–12 NCAA Bowl season. The game, which was telecast at 12:30 p.m. Pacific Time (3:30 p.m. Eastern Time) on ESPN, featured the UCLA Bruins (6–7) versus the Illinois Fighting Illini (6–6). The Bruins, with a losing record, were granted a waiver to play in a bowl game by the NCAA after the Pac-12 conference did not have enough eligible teams to fill its bowl commitments.UCLA Bowl Waiver Approved By NCAA , UCLABruins.com, November 30, 2011 https://archive.today/20130105150605/http://www.uclabruins.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/113011aaa.html January 5, 2013 Foster Chris Oregon-UCLA is not ideal matchup for first Pac-12 title game December 2, 2011 Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2011-dec-02-la-sp-1203-ucla-football-fyi-20111203-story.html https://web.archive.org/web/20111211073820/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/02/sports/la-sp-1203-ucla-football-fyi-20111203 December 11, 2011 The conference has seven bowl-eligible teams. Oregon will go to the Rose Bowl and Stanford is also expected to land in a Bowl Championship Series bowl, perhaps the Fiesta, leaving five teams for six Pac-12-affiliated bowls. live Foster Chris Rick Neuheisel expected to be fired after playoff game November 26, 2011 Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2011-nov-26-la-sp-1127-ucla-neuheisel-20111127-story.html https://web.archive.org/web/20111201145122/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/26/sports/la-sp-1127-ucla-neuheisel-20111127 December 1, 2011 Under NCAA rules, the conference would have to fill all its bowl commitments before a waiver would be granted. live Both teams fired their head coaches that season after .500 regular season records.UCLA was 6–6 in the regular season before losing in the Pac-12 Championship Game. Mike Johnson, who replaced Rick Neuheisel, is the interim coach for UCLA. The Fighting Illini were led by interim coach Vic Koenning while their newly hired head coach Tim Beckman, who replaced Ron Zook, was on the sidelines. UCLA lost and finished the season with a losing record (6–8).Bowl Overview ESPN.com https://www.espn.com/college-football/overview https://web.archive.org/web/20111206194935/http://espn.go.com/college-football/overview December 6, 2011 live Teams Since 1946, the two universities had met 11 times with three previous meetings in a bowl game (1947 Rose Bowl, 1984 Rose Bowl and 1991 Hancock Bowl). UCLA held a 6–5 edge over Illinois, including winning the last four games. The last game prior to this one was in 2004, when UCLA defeated Illinois 35–17. Illinois 2011 Illinois Fighting Illini football team Illinois featured a pro style offense and a multiple defense. Jason Ford (155-600 yards, 7 TDs) and Nathan Scheelhaase (169-514 yards, 6 TDs) were the top rushers. Quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase had completed 166 of 261 passes for 1,971 yards, and 12 TDs coming into this game with receiver A.J. Jenkins (84-1, 196 yards, 7 TDs) as his target. Defensively, the team was led by Jonathan Brown (102 tackles), Whitney Mercilus (14.5 sacks, -95 yards) and Trulon Henry (2 interceptions, 27 yards, 1 TD) and Terry Hawthorne (2 interceptions). UCLA 2011 UCLA Bruins football team UCLA came into the game with its Pistol offense which allowed Johnathan Franklin to run for 947 yards, 5 TDs; quarterback Kevin Prince to pass 112 times for 1,627 yards and 10 TDs; Nelson Rasario to catch for 61 passes for 1,106 yards, 4 TDs. The Bruins' 4-3 defense was led by Pat Larimore (81 tackles), Datone Jones (3.0 sacks, 7 yards) and Andrew Abbott (4 interceptions, 37 yards). Scoring summary First quarter scoring: No score Second quarter scoring: UCLA – Taylor Embree 16-yard pass from Kevin Prince (Tyler Gonzalez kick); ILL – Derek Dimke 36-yard field goal Third quarter scoring: ILL – T. Hawthorne 39-yard interception return (Dimke kick) Fourth quarter scoring: ILL – Dimke 37-yard field goal; ILL – A. J. Jenkins 60-yard pass from N. Scheelhaase (Dimke kick); UCLA – Nelson Rosario 38-yard pass from Prince (Gonzalez kick), Notes note References 30em External links Game summary at ESPN Box score at ESPN Category:2011–12 NCAA football bowl games Category:Redbox Bowl Category:Illinois Fighting Illini football bowl games Category:UCLA Bruins football bowl games Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl Category:2011 in San Francisco Category:December 2011 sports events in the United States