PASADENA — When the Bruins walk into the Charles E. Young locker room at the Rose Bowl, they’re reminded of the best UCLA players who have traversed the hallowed grounds.

Lists of All-Americans on the walls — most recently adding former Bruins linebacker Carson Schwesinger to the honors — greet UCLA as they prepare for their home games. It’s a privilege, tight end Jack Pedersen said, to play where so many of the sport’s great players and memorable Bruins have made names for themselves.

“It’s a great place,” Pedersen said earlier this week. “A lot of legends have played there. So obviously, there’s a lot of history around it.”

Saturday against Washington — an unceremonious game for UCLA’s up-and-down season, primarily coached by interim boss Tim Skipper, who led his team down the Bruin walk through the Rose Bowl gates — could be the last Bruins’ home football matchup, should the university opt for Inglewood and SoFi Stadium for upcoming seasons.

The Rose Bowl Operating Co. and the City of Pasadena filed a lawsuit against UCLA in late October, alleging that the university had made clear its intention to relocate its home games to SoFi Stadium, where the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers play their home games.

Now embroiled in a legal battle, UCLA has not denied the possibility and has said in multiple statements that it will continue to “evaluate the long-term arrangement for UCLA football home games,” adding that no decision on the matter has been made.

Pedersen, who holds one year of eligibility remaining, played in the Los Angeles Bowl at SoFi Stadium against Boise State a year ago. He’s played four seasons with UCLA at the Rose Bowl. Does he have a preference for where UCLA plays its home games in the future?

“I love the Rose Bowl,” he said. “Obviously, they don’t, you know, I’m not a part of those conversations — above my pay grade, right, if we go to SoFi or Rose Bowl, but it’s a great place and great atmosphere.

Pedersen continued: “I think a lot of us love it and love playing there. I think we just love to play football too.”

The sun set about three hours before kickoff at the Rose Bowl on Saturday, a picturesque scene no matter the occasion, where cotton candy skies light up the background of America’s stadium. The 7:30 p.m. kickoff in the dark, however, played like a somber party of remembrance as UCLA fell by three scores in the second quarter.

Junior wide receiver Mikey Matthews, whose first-quarter fumble led to a 35-yard field goal that placed the Huskies on the scoreboard, said earlier this week that the Rose Bowl still owned a special place in his heart. But when it comes to which stadium the Bruins will march onto the field come late August 2026 — with a new head coach — Matthews said he’ll go wherever told.

For the Irvine native, he’ll play “wherever the field’s at.”

“I definitely grew up going to the Rose Bowl, seeing UCLA play and all that,” Matthews said, who has two more years of eligibility, “but … I can’t really do too much about it, just going to go play wherever they tell us to go play.”