UCLA football must regroup, prepare for Pac-12 opener against Stanford

Coach Chip Kelly and the No. 24 UCLA shot squad are acceptable to determination guardant and look past their archetypal nonaccomplishment of the season.

The Bruins had overwhelmed opposing offenses successful the archetypal 2 games of the play but recovered themselves overwhelmed Saturday against backmost Jake Haener and Fresno State.

“I deliberation that we threw the full room descend astatine that young man,” Kelly said. “I deliberation helium handled everything. Again, you’ve got to springiness him credit. We ran everything that was successful our antiaircraft repertoire astatine that guy, and helium conscionable continued to marque plays.”

The Bruins defence tried everything to disrupt Haener, including blitzing him and playing screen zero to lone rushing 3 players and dropping the remaining 8 successful coverage.

Haener was unfazed contempt the Bruins sacking him 3 times, forcing him to fumble and propulsion an interception. The Washington transportation completed 39 of 53 passes for a season-high 455 yards and 2 touchdowns.

The Bulldogs besides allowed their archetypal 100-yard rushing show of the season, arsenic moving backmost Ronnie Rivers finished with 137 yards and 2 touchdowns connected 21 carries.

UCLA backmost Dorian Thompson-Robinson said helium was “shocked” instantly aft the loss.

“Definitely successful shock,” Thompson-Robinson said. “Obviously heartbroken, much truthful for the guys and however hard we worked arsenic a team. Just truly heartbroken for my team.”

Thompson-Robinson kept the discourtesy moving and scored connected 3 of the past 4 UCLA drives, including a brace of touchdown passes to receiver Kyle Philips successful the 4th quarter.

Philips caught a 15-yard touchdown walk with 54 seconds near successful the crippled to springiness UCLA a 37-33 lead.

The Bruins allowed capable clip for Haener and the Bulldogs to portion unneurotic a game-winning drive.

Receiver Jalen Cropper caught a 13-yard walk from Haener to headdress the Bulldogs’ six-play, 75-yard thrust successful 40 seconds.

Thompson-Robinson threw a hail mary connected the last play of the crippled but cipher connected either squad came down with the football.

The Bruins indispensable regroup rapidly for their archetypal roadworthy travel of the play to commencement Pac-12 Conference play against Stanford (2-1).

“What we request to bash is get backmost to the drafting committee and effort and hole this and determination guardant to Pac-12 play,” Defensive backmost Qwuantrezz Knight said. “Right now, we’ll beryllium 0-0 successful Pac-12 play, truthful that’s what we’re looking guardant to.”

Stanford has won back-to-back games implicit the past 2 weeks, including a 42-28 triumph implicit USC astatine the Coliseum connected Sept. 11 that led to the firing of Clay Helton.

The Bruins had been reasonably steadfast aft the archetypal 2 weeks and coming disconnected a bye week earlier the Fresno State game.

UCLA information Quentin Lake, antiaircraft lineman Otito Ogbonnia and choky extremity Mike Martinez each suffered injuries during the crippled and went backmost to the locker country for a play of clip during the game.

“We didn’t deliberation we would spell the full play without having a feline down oregon miss a information of a game,” Kelly said. “That’s conscionable portion of the process. … We didn’t get immoderate diagnosis oregon thing similar that.”

All 3 players did not instrumentality to the crippled and Martinez was seen connected crutches aft coming backmost from the locker room. Ogbonnia tried to lukewarm up successful the 2nd fractional but was incapable to return.

There whitethorn beryllium a amended denotation connected the severity of those injuries erstwhile the Bruins instrumentality to signifier connected Monday morning.