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The pace figures to be breathtaking as UCLA opens spring football under Chip Kelly

By the time you read this sentence, UCLA could have run its first five plays of spring football practice under Chip Kelly.

That might be only a slight exaggeration. Kelly was widely considered the biggest hire in the history of Bruins football in part because of the ability of his teams at Oregon to play at a pace that left opponents sucking air.

Playing fast means wearing down opposing defenses as games progress. That's why the Ducks routinely outscored their opponents by staggering margins in the fourth quarter.

"Those players have all graduated," Kelly said in November when asked how closely his UCLA offense might resemble the one he ran with the Ducks.