UCLA football starts the season ranked No. 7 in the country in the preseason college football AP Top 25 poll, which was released Sunday morning. The preseason ranking is the Bruins’ highest since the 1998 season, when they reached as high as No. 2, and finished No. 8 overall. UCLA’s No. 7 ranking is also […]
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Football returns from camp boasting standout performances
SAN BERNARDINO — Jim Mora could hardly wait. His post-practice interview session with the media Saturday lasted all of three minutes, his answers curt, his manner hasty. When the end was signaled, the coach broke into a brisk jog, out of the interview tent, off the field and towards the locker room, leaving the practice field […]
WR Devin Lucien suffers head injury late in UCLA training camp
SAN BERNARDINO — Wide receiver Devin Lucien suffered a head injury late in Tuesday’s practice, and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Lucien was carted off into the ambulance with a neck brace to immobilize the area. Coach Jim Mora said the extent of the injury was unknown. Mora said, from what he’s […]
Football camp’s afternoon practice times changed for the week
The start time of UCLA football’s afternoon practices for its three two-a-days schedule for this week has changed, per UCLA Athletics. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the Bruins’ second practice of the day will now start at 5:45 p.m., instead of as originally planned for 7 p.m. The first practices for those days will still […]
Inside linebacker Kenny Young proves a promising start
SAN BERNARDINO — Kenny Young made the distinctive arm motion twice, crossing his arms over one another in the air, and releasing them outwards – “No good.” Moments before, in the one-on-one red zone coverage drill, the pass into the end zone appeared it would just sail over the linebacker’s head for a completion. That was […]
UCLA Bruins tackle day two of training camp
SAN BERNARDINO – His lengthy strides made the streak route toward the end zone appear easy, effortless even in comparison to other UCLA wideouts. With the defender on his heels in the afternoon’s seven-on-seven drill, and his height advantage, wide receiver Alex Van Dyke needed only to pull the over-the-top, floated ball in. But it […]
Positions still up for grabs at start of UCLA football training camp
The words seemed to slip out naturally – confidently – from Brett Hundley’s mouth on national television. “Yes, you will see us in the first-ever College Football Playoff,” he said on ESPN’s College Football Live Friday morning, answering one of the hosts’ questions about whether the Bruins would make the newly implemented four-team playoff. A […]