The final week of the college football regular season is often reserved for rivalry matchups. UCLA, however, already played its crosstown showdown against USC on Saturday. While the Bruins won’t be playing their main rival in Week 14, they’ll certainly be facing their biggest nemesis of the Jim Mora era. Over the past two years, […]
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Football Monday: UCLA v. USC
Every UCLA football Saturday has so much more to it than a win or a loss. That’s why each postgame Monday, the Daily Bruin will break down the Bruins’ most recent game, outlining the good, the bad and the verdict for their performance. This week, we take a closer look at UCLA’s 38-20 win over […]
Third straight win over USC brings UCLA closer to goal of Pac-12 title
PASADENA—There were no wild screams. No mad dashes across the field. No mayhem in the Rose Bowl. Instead, when the clock hit zero in UCLA’s 38-20 victory over USC, the Bruins calmly walked to midfield to shake hands with their opponents, then jogged to the student section, where they were hailed by their fans. UCLA […]
UCLA men’s basketball dominates in 107-74 win against Nicholls State
UCLA didn’t mess around in the opening minutes of its game against Nicholls State Thursday. On their very first possession, the Bruins swung the ball around the key, then fed it to the post where freshman forward Kevon Looney easily laid it in. After struggling out of the gate offensively on Sunday against Coastal Carolina, […]
Bo Knows: UCLA has proven itself the better LA team over last three seasons
Isn’t it kind of weird it’s gotten to the point that it would be both a shock and a disappointment if UCLA lost to USC Saturday? It’s wild to think about how drastically each program has changed over the past three years. After UCLA’s 50-0 blowout loss to USC in 2011, it’s the Trojans who […]
Player combats multiple injuries, makes successful comeback as DB
It took just three games for Anthony Jefferson’s dreams to derail. As a senior at Cathedral High School in Los Angeles, the now-redshirt senior defensive back dominated on both sides of the ball. As a wide receiver, he had 63 catches for 1,286 yards and 15 touchdowns. He added 42 tackles and two interceptions on […]
UCLA defense faces tough challenge in slowing down diverse USC offense
USC’s offense will be simultaneously familiar and completely new to UCLA’s defense this Saturday. The Bruins have played against teams with similar spread offenses. They’ve faced teams that run a pro-style offense. But playing against an offense that fuses the two together is foreign to UCLA. “(USC is) extremely diverse. Kinda the best of the […]