UCLA’s release on the restructured NIL collective that has three distinct NIL funds for football, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball and Olympic sports:

Things are underway

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Will gather a more complete list by Friday, but Adam Gorney has learned that former Purdue commit and local 2026 QB Oscar Rios will be among them.

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There’s still about 30+ mins until the availability report will be released to see if UCLA tips its hand about QB Ethan Garbers (I’d assume they won’t).

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UCLA checks in at No. 26 overall, third-best in the Big Ten.

The Bruins’ offensive rating is 30th, defense is 29th.

The full ratings:

This week’s PFF grades will be a bit more thorough as I also take a look at the overall season grades and where UCLA ranks in the Big Ten now that it’s halfway through the schedule.

So, look for that in a few hours. But what I can tell you from taking an early look is that linebacker Carson Schwesinger turned in an elite performance:

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I have seen anywhere from 3-5 wins this football season given the tough schedule ahead of us. I would assume CF would be granted a pass this year given his placement as head coach late in the year but does anyone out there predict more than 5 wins? We loss a lot on defense in players as well as defensive coordinator. I like our starting QB but if we can’t protect Garbers and have to go to QB2, CF’s season could look really embarrassing.
My interpretation of a successful year would be getting a bowl game AND being within striking distance into the 4th quarter of each game. A “decent” year would be just the latter for most games.

UCLA now ranks 109th of 133 FBS teams with 7.67 penalties per game.

Story just went up:

The Good: the perforance of Carson Schlesinger, the dude was all over the place with 12 tackles and 2 sack. Our defense held the high flying offense to a measly 234 total yards and scoreless in the first half. Garbers played well, keeping drives alive with his passing….25 OF 36, 295 yards and 1 TD…unfortunately he also had 3 costly INT that cost UCLA a win. Kudos to J. Michael for having a great game!

The Bad: Our running game… 36 rushing yards. Harden had only 7 carries for 15 yards or 2.1 ypc. Berger had 8 carries for 20 yards.

The Ugly: the penalties…UCLA had over a 100 yds of penalties that stalled drives or helped Minnesota offense.

DeShaun Foster:

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QB Ethan Garbers and LB Carson Schwesinger:

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USC got screwed in OT twice. Now they blew a big call that led to an OSU touchdown. Sometimes I wonder if there is a far larger shady underbelly to that profession across major sports. There is so much money riding on outcomes. Gambling money, tv money, athletics departments money…

This time to Penn State. That’s 3 losses thus far and counting. Well deserved! Their website is in meltdown!

I don’t have my finger on the pulse of how happy Dodgers fans and management is with him.

It seems like it really is the premier conference from top to bottom. The PAC schools that joined have underperformed for the most part and previous Big 10 teams that UCLA has been on par with or better than have shown they aren’t rollovers.

We have to find a way to win. Get some pride and kick their butt. Bruins win at home!!!!!

The CIF Southern Section denied Long Beach Poly quarterback and UCLA 2025 commit Madden Iamaleava’s push to be cleared for immediate competition after transferring from Downey (Calif.) Warren after one game.

In the notes on the transfer portal section of the CIF-SS website it states: “Denied athletic eligibility in all sports at Poly/Long Beach or any CIF high school until October 1, 2026.”

This kid was a walk-on two years ago to our starting LT in just 10 games?? I’m getting ahead of myself BUT can Coach Castillo develop him into an NFL caliber OLman? Will he be the cornerstone of our OL for 2-3 years?

Intriguing questions

From Rivals national recruiting analyst Greg Smith:

I’m back on campus this morning. Practice gets going at 9:15 a.m., with DeShaun and likely one player speaking afterward.

Will keep an eye out for Garbers’ activity and do my best to keep tabs on the far corner of the field to see if anything’s changed on offensive line as far as reps and Reuben Unije’s availability.

Jeff Ulbrich, for those that remember, was UCLA's Linebackers coach then DC for a year or two under CJMjr. I was a fan, despite one immature public dust up he had
with CJMjr on the game sideline.

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UCLA was the latest program to offer La Mirada (Calif.) Glendora four-star shooting guard Gene Roebuck.

He’s ranked 19th nationally in the 2027 class.

He also has offers Cal and Kansas over the last two days.

After a proposal to eliminate the spring transfer window, the NCAA DI Council announced Tuesday it will remain but the transfer window’s number of combined days was reduced from 45 to 30 days.

The dates are:

December 9-28 and April 16-25