Author Archives: Ben Taylor

With a new coach, quarterback, and an astounding 53 freshmen, no one expected miracles from the 2008 UCLA football team.

UCLA had just scored to cut Oregon’s lead to 14-7, when Bruins’ coach Rick Neuheisel channeled his inner Evel Knievel.

First Arkansas. Then the Miami Dolphins. Now UCLA.

And now we know. UCLA can play.

Three games into the season, we haven’t learned much about the 2008 UCLA Bruin football team.

The ticker crawled along the bottom of the screen all day Saturday: “Worst UCLA loss since 1929.” Yes, the 59-point spread was technically the largest margin of defeat since Herbert Hoover occupied the White House, but in the grand scheme, this loss was not that devastating: No heartache, no shattered dreams, no officiating blunders. It […]

Expectations are a funny thing.