As the Bruins prepare to take on Nevada in Week 9, keep an eye on these potential game-changers. Anthony Woods could end up being the most important player on UCLA's offense if Wayne Knight is indeed limited against the Wolf Pack .
As Mick Cronin enters his eighth year at the helm of UCLA basketball, the Bruins have put together quite an impressive roster. However, as with many other rosters in college basketball, the team may need some time to gel together and play as a team rather than as individuals.
Heading into UCLA's opening matchup against Arizona, we seem to have a pretty good idea of who we'll see on the floor first, based on the two exhibition games UCLA has played.
The Bruins are days away from their regular season opener against Arizona in Las Vegas. UCLA has performed well in the preseason so far, and these three players have stood out as the biggest winners in the two exhibition matches .
Now it’s for real. UCLA is one of three unbeaten teams remaining, along with Miami and Utah, and it has a favorable enough schedule to get through the last five games 5-2, at least, to get into the College Football Playoff.
The Bruins' perfect record is at stake yet again as Nevada visits the Rose Bowl in hopes of pulling off potentially the biggest upset of the college football season.
UCLA will rely heavily on its newcomers this season, as Mick Cronin and Co. did a great job of bringing in talented players through the transfer portal and beyond.
The UCLA Bruins are going to get quarterback Nico Iamaleava back for the 2027 season. This is huge news.
Through UCLA's two exhibition games, one player has emerged as a very interesting piece of this Bruins roster. Coming from Butler in the offseason, there was some high praise from Mick Cronin for guard Azavier Robinson.
Quarterback Nico Iamaleava will not return to game action this year. The leading signal-caller suffered a left knee injury on Oct. 10 at Oregon. For the rest of 2026, Ty Dieffenbach will be steering UCLA on its hopeful voyage towards the College Football Playoff.
If Curt Cignetti hadn’t put together the ultimate program turnaround the last two seasons, what Bob Chesney is doing at UCLA may not be flying under the radar as much as it seems.
UCLA’s November slate isn’t stacked with the toughest of opponents, but it does have a few matchups, including its first, that present very real challenges.
For three months, it appeared that UCLA was on a glide back to Omaha. The Bruins were the consensus top team for nearly the entire 2026 regular season.
UCLA has never played for a national championship. The Bruins did not make a BCS appearance, nor did they make any trip to the College Football Playoff.
The UCLA Bruins were 3-9 last season. As UCLA entered the 2026 season, the expectations that came with Bob Chesney were high, but nothing compared to what we’ve seen from the Bruins so far.
The Bruins put together a solid second-half performance to handle San Diego at home 82-50, and will now gear up for the real thing. There were a lot of standouts in this matchup, but these three Bruins provided the best performances of the night for UCLA, and with similar production moving forward, can be special players for this team.
In UCLA's final exhibition match of the season, the Bruins took care of business against a tough San Diego team at home, winning 82-50. While UCLA got the result they wanted, this game proved there's still some work to do before the season opener in less than a week.
Carson Steele’s brief and injury-interrupted stint with the Philadelphia Eagles ended Tuesday when the team waived the former UCLA Bruins running back from injured reserve with an injury settlement.
Chesney has UCLA at 7-0 and ranked No. 7 in the country. He looks like the next Cignetti.
The hottest football ticket right now in Los Angeles is not the Los Angeles Rams, the Los Angeles Chargers or even the USC Trojans. It’s about 30 minutes northeast in Pasadena with the No. 7 UCLA Bruins.
When the UCLA Bruins entered the 2026 college football season they did so with just a 1% chance to reach the College Football Playoffs. Now, seven games into the season and the Bruins sit with a 7-0 record and now have a 45% chance to make it to the postseason.
The UCLA Bruins are 5-0 and ranked No. 12 in the nation. Bob Chesney's team appears to be for real.
The UCLA Bruins are rolling on the gridiron, and they look like a program that could make College Football Playoff noise. When was the last time that could be said about UCLA football?
UCLA is off to a great start in 2026, but things just got much more difficult for the Bruins as they push for a CFB Playoff spot.
Only five games into his tenure at UCLA, head coach Bob Chesney is putting the program back on the map.
UCLA Bruins head coach Bob Chesney knows that hype can be a powerful thing.
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