Chances are most UCLA football fans are still hung up over the last-minute, heartbreaking loss to Stanford last week. But the team had already moved on, days ago. The Bruins (2-2, 0-1 Pac-12) returned to practice Monday with their mindset solely focused on their next game with the Arizona Wildcats (2-2, 0-1 Pac-12). “The concern […]
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Gameday predictions: UCLA vs. Arizona
UCLA football (2-2, 0-1 Pac-12) will play Arizona (2-2, 0-1 Pac-12) on Saturday night. Last year, the Bruins dominated the game 56-30, the first big road win of then-freshman quarterback Josh Rosen’s career and their fourth in a row. The current point spread for this game – according to Westgate, SportsBetting.ag and BETONLINE.ag – is […]
Q&A: Daily Wildcat writer discusses Arizona football’s current position
To get some inside information on the Arizona football team, Daily Bruin Sports reached out to The Daily Wildcat – Arizona’s school newspaper – and asked a few questions about the Wildcats before their upcoming game against UCLA this Saturday. All of the responses below come from Justin Spears, a senior writer at The Daily […]
UCLA struggles to find starting running back, lacks solid run plays
The Big Three no more. Through its first four games, UCLA (2-2, 0-1 Pac-12) regularly rotated between a trio of running backs – junior Nate Starks and sophomores Bolu Olorunfunmi and Soso Jamabo. But after lackluster performances against BYU and Stanford, in which the Bruins had 50 and 77 rushing yards respectively, it was time for a […]
The Dam Truth: Coaches should not be defined only by their losses
For 58 minutes, Jim Mora was giving UCLA fans what they wanted – a physical football game that came down to the wire against a Pac-12 rival. The raucous cheering was deafening, but it quickly changed the moment Stanford scored the go-ahead touchdown with seconds left on the clock. The “I believe that we will […]
UCLA football coaches confident that victories are around the corner
The game plan is there, the seeds are planted and the wins will come. Eventually. UCLA’s defense (2-2, 0-1 Pac-12) has steadily grown since a 31-24 overtime loss to now-No.10 Texas A&M, putting together a historic performance against BYU and then limiting Heisman Trophy runner-up Christian McCaffrey to 151 total yards. Linebackers coach Scott White […]
Report Card: UCLA vs. Stanford
Here’s the unit-by-unit report card for the Bruins’ 22-13 loss to Stanford: Quarterbacks: B Josh Rosen said after the game that he thought he played well, but not perfectly, and a look at the film suggests he was right. Rosen made a couple poor reads throughout the game – the most notable coming in the […]