UCLA plays at Texas A&M on college football’s opening weekend (Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET, CBS), in what could be the week’s best quarterback duel.
UCLA’s sophomore QB doesn’t think Texas A&M’s stadium will be especially loud
We’ll see how this shakes out.
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One of the participants in that showdown, Bruins signal-caller Josh Rosen, sounds not especially worried about playing a game like this one on the road.
Accurate, unedited J Rosen quote "After like 50,000 people, it sounds the same, or doesn't sound the same." So...after 50K you can't hear!
— Jim Mora (@Jim_MoraUCLA) August 30, 2016
Texas A&M’s got the home crowd on its side, and the Aggies’ Kyle Field is one of the sport’s more raucous environments. The place holds more than 100,000 people, and it figures to be full for this game. So it’s going to be pretty loud, probably.
Rosen is a confident kid, and credit to him for not being afraid to put himself out there or to speak his mind on a range of issues.
But Rosen hasn’t seen anything quite like what he’s about to see.
Road games Josh Rosen has played in:
— Jimmy Gardner (@jimmygards) August 30, 2016
UNLV (31k)
Arizona (56k)
Stanford (deathly quiet)
Oregon State (38k)
Utah (46k)
USC (quiet)
To be fair, UCLA’s home stadium, the Rose Bowl, seats about 90,000. But about 77,000 actually attended the average Bruins game there in Rosen’s freshman season, and that’s still a lot fewer people than will be yelling their heads off (at Rosen!) on Saturday. Few people in the world will be yelled at more during these three hours.
This could be a pretty big year for the UCLA sophomore. If it starts the way he wants it to, there will be lots of demoralized Texans. And if not, Rosen will hear about it.
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