The UCLA football team opens at home against UNLV on Saturday. Last year, the Bruins played the Rebels in Las Vegas, coming away with a 37-3 win in sophomore quarterback Josh Rosen’s first road game. The current point spread for this game – according to Westgate, BOVADA.ld and BETONLINE.ag – is 26, in favor of […]
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After overcoming hurdles, speedster Kenneth Walker III seeks NFL shot
Patricia Jones’ face lights up as she thinks about the day her youngest son became the first member of her family to graduate from college. “I can’t stop saying it – I tell him every time I talk to him, ‘I’m so proud of you,’” Jones said of UCLA redshirt senior wide receiver Kenneth Walker […]
Football scouting report: UNLV
On Saturday, UCLA football (0-1) will play its second game of the season – and its first home game – against unranked UNLV (1-0). The Bruins defeated the Rebels 37-3 last year in Las Vegas, after being listed as a 31-point favorite heading into the game. This time around, UCLA is listed only as a […]
Q&A: Rebel Yell sports editor previews UCLA vs. UNLV showdown
To get some inside information on the UNLV football team, Daily Bruin Sports reached out to The Rebel Yell – UNLV’s school newspaper – and asked a few questions about the Rebels before their upcoming game against UCLA this Saturday. All of the responses below come from Mark Chisholm, an assistant Sports editor at The […]
The Eight-Clap: UCLA looks to halt UNLV momentum, offense in upcoming game
This is the first installment of The Eight-Clap, a rundown of eight midweek notes on UCLA football. 1. The health of Takkarist McKinley, who returned to practice this week after pulling his groin against Texas A&M, will go a long way in determining whether the Bruins achieve their stated goal of improving against the run […]
Former five-star recruit Keisean Lucier-South earns praise in first game
The goosebumps were back. Keisean Lucier-South hadn’t played a football game in two years, yet the chills were there as he ran onto Kyle Field. The former five-star recruit out of Orange Lutheran High School redshirted his freshman season, helping the Bruins on the scout team. When he played his first down of football Saturday […]
UCLA proved no match for traditions, power of Texas A&M fans
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Intentionally or unintentionally, Josh Rosen provoked the 12th man. But more than 100,000 raucous men, women, children and Miss Rev – Texas A&M’s mascot and the highest ranking member of the school’s Corps of Cadets – showed up Saturday afternoon to throw the sophomore quarterback off his game. Whether they got […]