UCLA Bruins Season Prediction, What Will Happen
UCLA is usually the victim of being a good looking team with a rough schedule to screw it all up.
Usually it seems like it has everything in place, and then it plays a schedule with – say – Oklahoma, or LSU, or a rising Cincinnati, or road dates in conference against the league’s killers.
Last year’s team might have gone 8-4, but it lost to Fresno State and Oregon each by three, struggled against Arizona State and Utah, and pretty much rocked everyone else.
This year’s UCLA team shouldn’t be as strong – there are way too many big holes being patched up with transfer portal prospects – but the program gets a break with the schedule this time around.
There are two ways to look at this. It should be a worse team that happens to have a more favorable slate, and/or it should a be a worse team that’s going to get time to grow into a great team thanks to the favorable slate.
Set The UCLA Bruins Regular Season Win Total At … 8.5
Last year’s team had to deal with LSU – it was a nice win – a sneaky-nasty Fresno State, and then three road games in four weeks to start out the Pac-12 season before hosting Oregon and going to Utah.
The 2019 team started out with a sneaky-nasty two games against Cincinnati and San Diego State, and then had to deal with Oklahoma … before starting out the Pac-12 season with three road games in four weeks.
There ain’t nothin’ sneaky-nasty about Bowling Green, Alabama State, and South Alabama. The Pac-12 season starts out with a road date at Colorado before hosting Washington an Utah.
Missing Washington State and Oregon State is the one negative, but – as misleading as this is considering one of the teams is USC – four of the last five games are against teams that didn’t go bowling in 2021.
If all goes right as the year goes on, the Bruins should have the most regular season wins since going 9-3 before the bowl in 2014.
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