1) Containing Utah’s Pass Rush Three keys might not even be necessary if UCLA’s offensive line can hammer home this one point: protect redshirt junior quarterback Brett Hundley, and do it consistently. Utah’s defense ranks second in the Pac-12 in sacks (18 in four games), and over that same span, UCLA has allowed the most […]
Author Archives: Chris Kalra
UCLA football adjusts to new schedule as quarter kicks in
It’s a division that amounts to 38 days for the Bruin football team. UCLA, on the quarter system, starts school on Thursday Oct. 2. Utah, on the semester system, started school way back on Aug. 25. From one perspective, consider it the luck of the draw for UCLA. For schools on the quarter system, much […]
New plan increases student seating for men’s basketball in Pauley
UCLA Athletics announced a new seating plan for men’s basketball home games in Pauley Pavilion, vastly increasing the number of lower bowl student seats. The student section along the court’s full-length baseline will now fill the entire non-team bench sideline – sections 113-117 – rather than an estimated 60 percent as it had in the […]
UCLA football’s Nate Iese shuffles through many positions, finds niche
It was during an early fall camp practice in an 11-on-11 scrimmage play when a Bruin defender had the misfortune of meeting redshirt sophomore fullback Nate Iese in open space. Iese caught the ball in the flat, ran forward and barreled over him, the defender’s body crumpling in Iese’s wake. A spectator, watching the play […]
Silencing doubts, Brett Hundley returns to field to knock out ASU
TEMPE, Ariz. – After he took a knee on the final snap of UCLA’s 62-27 win over Arizona State, Brett Hundley let it soak in. He turned around, placed the ball behind his back and bowed. Then, he turned slightly to the side, and bowed once more. He had, after all, earned it. “He played […]
UCLA leads ASU 27-17 at halftime
TEMPE, Ariz. – Start slow. Finish fast. That’s how UCLA football took to its first half against Arizona State. Behind redshirt junior quarterback Brett Hundley, who did start after doubts about his injured left elbow, UCLA leads Arizona State 27-17 at halftime. In the beginning, UCLA squandered opportunity after opportunity. There was the case of […]
Q&A: The State Press on UCLA’s upcoming football game with ASU
In advance of No. 11 UCLA football’s showdown with No. 15 Arizona State Thursday night, the Sun Devils’ student newspaper, The State Press, emailed one of the Daily Bruin’s football beat writers Chris Kalra a few questions on the upcoming game. In goodwill, one of the football reporters of The State Press Evan Webeck returned the favor.