PASADENA — Cotton-candy skies of pink and orange bathe the San Gabriel Mountains, the hang-it-in-the-Louvre backdrop that forever sinks into football fans’ brains across the United States.

That’s the Rose Bowl. That’s what America’s Stadium sings. That’s what college football programs dream of seeing with their own eyes. You’ll see it on postcards; you’ll see it on laptop screensavers.

But the annals of Rose Bowl history will certainly try to forget the display of UCLA against Washington — an attempt to scrub a whimper of a late gloomy kickoff that saw the Bruins (3-8, 3-5 Big Ten) fall 48-14 in their potentially permanent Pasadena finale.

Yes, UCLA may have played its last home football game on Saturday night as rumors swirl over the Bruins’ future home stadium, hooked into a legal bat

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