1984 Rose Bowl

Neuheisel, who later became UCLA's head coach, threw two touchdown passes to his eventual predecessor, Karl Dorrell.

Starting quarterback Rick Neuheisel was benched after the Nebraska loss in favor of Steve Bono.

The Bruins then won five straight Pacific-10 Conference games, including a defeat of #11 Washington.

As the "visiting team", UCLA wore their white road jerseys with gold pants, and the Illinois Fighting Illini wore their navy blue home jerseys with orange pants.

Chris White kicked a 41-yard field goal to make the score 7–3 with 13:59 left in the half.

Don Rogers got a second interception from Trudeau, which tied a Rose Bowl record.

In the second half, Neuheisel threw his record-setting fourth touchdown pass to Karl Dorrell to put the Bruins up 35–3.

The Rose Bowl officials could not get the scoreboard straightened out, so time and score were kept on the field spoken over the public address system.

Terry Donahue was later to state that the man-to-man pass coverage by the Illini was one of the reasons that they were able to be successful.

Jack Trudeau would later go on to set an NCAA record of 215 pass attempts without an interception in the 1985 football season.

Eventual Minnesota head coach Tim Brewster was the captain of the Fighting Illini.

Neuheisel eventually became the coach of the UCLA Bruins, replacing Rose Bowl teammate Karl Dorrell.

The only other time this has happened was in when Purdue won on an 80-yard drive led by Drew Brees with 1:25 left in the 1998 Alamo Bowl versus #4 ranked Kansas State.

Drew Brees and Purdue would later meet the Washington Huskies coached by Rick Neuheisel in the 2001 Rose Bowl.

A prank played by students from the California Institute of Technology altered the scoreboard display, an incident reminiscent of the Great Rose Bowl Hoax of 1961.

A pair of Caltech students evaded security at the Rose Bowl, gained access to the electronic system and installed a computer that could be remotely controlled to alter the display on the stadium's digital scoreboard.