The Bruins are 6-2 on the season but have had to incur a series of injuries and disappointing games that have hampered their College Football Playoff campaign for the 2015 season. Still they enter the first College Football Playoff rankings at #23.
With the Bruins losing two games already, with one being to underachieving Arizona State and the other which was a brutal beat down up at Stanford, this seems to be a proper placement for UCLA at this point.
It also did not help that the Bruins nearly lost to lowly Colorado at home this last weekend and had to make a triumphant comeback of their own against a team that has only had one conference win in the last two years.