UCLA football plays aggressive against Oregon but must address costly mistakes

The UCLA shot programme volition person to reevaluate and regroup rapidly pursuing the 34-31 nonaccomplishment to No. 7 Oregon astatine the Rose Bowl connected Saturday.

The Bruins’ discourtesy enactment unneurotic a beardown commencement successful the archetypal quarter, gathering a 14-0 pb against the Ducks and holding a 17-14 pb astatine halftime.

Running backmost Travis Dye and the Ducks swung momentum successful their favour successful the 2nd half.

UCLA manager Chip Kelly and violative coordinator Justin Frye were assertive with the play calling, converting connected 5 of 7 4th down attempts.

Two of the Bruins palmy attempts came connected their last thrust of the crippled erstwhile trailing the Ducks by 34-31. Quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson completed a 16-yard walk to Kam Brown astatine the UCLA 39-yard enactment for the archetypal down.

Thompson-Robinson would beryllium knocked retired of the crippled aft taking interaction from Oregon’s Kayvon Thibodeaux a fewer plays later. The backmost did not instrumentality to the crippled but tweeted, “I’m okay” aft the loss.

Redshirt freshman Ethan Garbers entered the crippled successful spot of Thompson-Robinson.

Garbers completed 2 of 5 passes for 22 yards, including a 10-yard walk to receiver Kyle Philips for a archetypal down connected fourth-and-8 to enactment the Bruins connected the Oregon 49-yard line.

Garbers threw an interception to Oregon antiaircraft backmost DJ James with 48 seconds near to fundamentally extremity the game.

“I deliberation the biggest happening with our backmost country connected our squad successful its entirety is the toughness aspect,” Offensive lineman Jon Gaines II said. “With (Garbers), we understood that helium was successful the game, and we trusted him to grip his job. Once again, things didn’t extremity the mode we wanted them to, but he’s the benignant of feline who’s going to respond, elemental arsenic that.”

James besides intercepted Thompson-Robinson’s walk connected the archetypal play of the Bruins’ 2nd thrust successful the archetypal quarter.

The Bruins did person costly miscues connected 4th down, including Nicholas Barr-Mira’s 35-yard tract extremity attempt. UCLA punter Luke Akers besides fumbled, which resulted successful a turnover connected downs.

Dye would people a rushing touchdown connected each thrust that followed those UCLA miscues.

“(This game) was a immense accidental and we conscionable came up a small short,” Kelly said. “We inactive person to instrumentality the (same) attack and we’ll analyse the movie (to code the miscues.)”

The Bruins volition person to code the penalties connected defense. UCLA had 2 interceptions erased due to the fact that of offside penalties.

UCLA antiaircraft backmost Quentin Lake was called for 1 of those penalties connected a play wherever helium had an interception successful the reddish zone. Dye scored his archetypal touchdown connected the adjacent play.

“You’ve got to cleanable those up,” Kelly said. “Those are self-inflicted wounds. Any administrative punishment that occurs earlier the drawback … we’ve got to cleanable that worldly up. We had 2 interceptions that we negated ourselves due to the fact that we were not lined up the close way. We’ll marque the corrections erstwhile we get backmost to (practice).”

After trailing by arsenic overmuch arsenic 34-17 successful the 4th quarter, moving backmost Brittain Brown scored his 2nd rushing touchdown connected an violative thrust betwixt the 2 antiaircraft stands the Bruins were capable to extremity with back-to-back interceptions.

With the nonaccomplishment to Oregon, UCLA volition play astatine Utah connected ESPN astatine 7 p.m. PT. The Bruins person won 3 consecutive league roadworthy games this season.

“Winning connected the roadworthy successful this league is difficult, arsenic we know,” Kelly said. “We person been bully connected the road, but we person a gangly task going retired to play a bully Utah team.”