pasadena california ucla won the season opening coin toss and then dominated nearly everything else in a 44 to 10 rout of hawaii at the rose bowl a crowd of 32 982 saw the bruins established a run game early and then found points with their passing game and specialists they scored on a blocked punt in the third quarter related blog university of hawaii football team vs ucla at rose bowl in california the outcome ended ucla coach chip kelly's drought against non-conference opponents in his first three years at ucla kelly's bruins were win less in six games against non-pac-12 members the bruins were gifted an early opportunity when the rainbow warriors first drive stalled after matthew shipley launched a punt the replay official sent a review alert the official then confirmed that shipley's right knee touched the grass when he tried to handle the low long snap ucla was awarded possession at the a5 the bruins were held to a field goal but the tone was set the bruins then unleashed a two-prong attack a running game that produced four first-half touchdowns and a pass rush limited the warriors run and gun options the bruins did not mask their strategy of powering against an opponent that yielded more than 200 rushing yards per game in 2020 and while the bruins offense usually revolves around dual trek quarterback dorian thompson robinson dtr to the ucla faithful this time the carries went to running backs britain brown and michigan transfer zach charbonnet in the first half brown rushed for a touchdown and sharpen it weaved and sprinted for three more as the bruins raced away to a 31-3 at the intermission in the first 30 minutes the bruins amassed 203 russian yards an average of 9.7 yards per carry charbonnet gained 106 yards on six carries translating to 17.7 yards per rush the bruins ground game picked up for dtr who struggled with his accuracy a quarterback chavin cordero also struggled early but under different circumstances the bruins used multiple fronts and combinations with the same intent stormed the up backfield and harass cordero two of cordero's first half passes were knocked down another pass was intercepted by defensive lineman datona jackson's right hand setting up brown's one-yard touchdown for a 17-0 lead shipley's 48-yard field goal the longest of his two-season a career got the warriors on the jumbotron scoreboard but the warriors missed scoring chance late in the second quarter when cordero's third and goal pass was dropped and his ensuing throw was broken up on the first drive of the second half the bruins went 75 yards in five plays to widen their lead to 37-3 with 13-02 remaining in the third quarter dtr's 44-yard strike to cashmere allen accounted for the td a bright moment for always pordero's one-yard scoring pass to tight end caleb phillips phillips who transferred from stanford in june had not played the position since high school