The Chip Kelly era did not start off with a bang, but a whimper. But don’t worry, it’s only the first game of his tenure with the UCLA football team. Let us not be hasty in our judgment.
The Bruins were two-touchdown favorites, but they ended up losing by a touchdown and some change to the Cincinnati Bearcats in the 2018 season opener. There are a few things that went right, but it seemed that there was more that went wrong.
Let us start with the defense. They might have given up 194 yards on the ground (304 total), but you can tell that they were a lot more active and more determined to get into the backfield and disrupt Cincinnati’s offense than what we saw from last season.