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College Football National Cup - Day 9/Game 2 - (NCAA 14) 
Posted on August 2, 2013 at 02:59 AM.
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GROUP I - Day Nine

California, L.A. - 35 vs. Temple - 21
Beaver Stadium - University Park, PA


University Park, PA - The last time Landon Dockery was on the campus of Penn State, he was just visiting a friend. This time around, Dockery was at Penn State wowing 107,000 people in Beaver Stadium.

The UCLA (1-0-0/3PTs) freshman running back Landon Dockery ran all over in-state Temple (0-1-0/0PTs) for a 35-21 victory in University Park, PA. His 152-all purpose yards and 3 touchdown overwhelmed a Temple team that got off to a hot start in the game.

After forcing a quick three-and-out, the Owls had a 3-minute scoring drive capped off by quarterback Greg Robinson's 2-yard touchdown run. The Bruins defense looked winded and shell shocked, but quarterback Brett Hundley and Dockery picked up his defense immediately.

UCLA's scores in the 2nd quarter both came with under 1-minute to go. The first was the end of a long drive, as Nick Falbo caught an 18-yard pass from Hundley to tie the game. Falbo was the key to the next drive, as well. With 18-seconds left, Landon Dockery took the handoff, passed it back to Hundley, who then connected with Falbo inside the 10-yard line for a successful flea-flicker. Hundley then found Darius Bell for a 9-yard touchdown and UCLA took a 14-7 lead into the half. From there on out, it was all Dockery for the Bruins.

"He was unstoppable and we just kept on giving it to him," said UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel. "He was a little frustrated early on, but he is that type of a work horse back. We had to settle him down a little bit and then he just plowed ahead the rest of the game."

Plowing ahead was an understatement as 70 of Dockery's 135-yards on the ground came after the initial contact of a defender. He scored all three of UCLA's second half touchdowns, including a 24-yarder that put the nail in the coffin with 1:04 to go in the game.

Dockery knew his return to the campus was something special.

"I love the area and was glad I got a chance to give the people here something to cheer for," said the UCLA running back. "I'll be honest, the weather was a little nicer this time. Not sure I would've enjoyed trudging around in 10-inches of snow like the last time I visited here [laughing]."

Was the deficit became 21-points, Temple played the rest of the game trying to make sure their run differential didn't get any worse.

"You could tell our guys were starting to get really down and losing focus," said Temple head coach Steve Addazio. "I was glad Dan [Smith] and [Kevin Gallagher] were able to step up and lead our guys back onto the field with some purpose. We had to stay focused and realize the position we are in. A loss doesn't put you out of it, but a loss with a giant point differential deficit can."

Wide receivers Gallagher and Smith did their part on the field, as well. The two combined for 121 yards and 2 touchdowns from Greg Robinson as they helped Temple walk out of Beaver Stadium with only a mins-14 point differential.

Temple will now go down to sunny Florida, as they take on an Oklahoma (0-0-1/1PTs) team that shocked by a last-second tie to Stanford. Temple is only 1-point out of a tie for second in Group I. The UCLA Bruins will look to clinch a spot in the knockout stage if they can knock off Stanford (0-0-1/1PTs) at Renstchler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut.

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Nick Falbo catches a flea-flicker for 60-yards with under 30-seconds to go in the first half



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GROUP I STANDINGS

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