UCLA’s defense had a good idea of what to expect last Sunday. That won’t be the case Saturday. Spread-happy former UCLA offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone and Texas A&M started a redshirt freshman at quarterback and returned the team’s top-two rushers from last season, but the Bruins’ next opponent won’t have such a one-sided offense. Unranked […]
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Report Card: UCLA vs. Texas A&M
Each week, Daily Bruin Sports takes a look at the game film for UCLA football and grades each position group on its performance. This week, we grade UCLA’s 45-44 comeback win against Texas A&M. Quarterback: B+ The stat line says it all, right? Not exactly. Junior quarterback Josh Rosen threw for 491 yards, four touchdowns […]
Five Things: UCLA vs. Texas A&M
UCLA football completed the largest comeback in program history Sunday night in its 45-44 win over Texas A&M. Junior quarterback Josh Rosen led the comeback by going 35-for-59 for 491 yards and four touchdowns, with each of those coming in the fourth quarter. Here are five takeaways we had from UCLA’s season opener: 1. The […]
Defense adjusts after woeful first half to help spur comeback
It didn’t take a genius to know it was time for a change. The UCLA defense had been gashed for 38 points and 286 rushing yards in the first half of Sunday’s season-opener against Texas A&M. So defensive coordinator Tom Bradley and the Bruins decided to go back to the basics. They rolled out their […]
Under Jedd Fisch, Bruin offense starts season with up-and-down game
To say the Jedd Fisch era at UCLA started poorly would be an understatement. Under the Bruins’ new offensive coordinator, their offense opened the game with a field goal but followed that with fumbles on back-to-back drives and four consecutive three-and-outs. More than 20 minutes of game time trickled down before they recorded another first […]
UCLA makes last-minute turnaround against Texas A&M, winning 45-44
This post was updated Sept. 3 at 10:59 p.m. Jedd Fisch calls himself a Patriots fan, but when the first-year offensive coordinator looked up at the scoreboard that showed UCLA football trailing Texas A&M by 34 points, he couldn’t even dream of a Super Bowl-like comeback – not when the Bruins were down by almost twice […]
Despite Rosen’s return, Texas A&M leaves UCLA trailing 38-10 at half
The Josh Rosen comeback UCLA football fans had been waiting 11 months for kicked off against Texas A&M. It wasn’t pretty. The Aggies outplayed the Bruins in every facet of the first half – 342 to 151 in net total yards, 13 to 8 in first downs and 18:21 to 11:39 in minutes of possession. […]