The UCLA Bruins (0-1) are set to welcome the Utah Utes (0-0) in Week 2 of the Pac-12 Football season, shortened of course, to seven games for each. Well, actually to six games for the Utes after they were forced to cancel their season-opening game against Arizona due to a COVID-19 outbreak that left them without the requisite number of scholarship athletes available.
While we do not know which players are going to be held back potentially for the Utes due to contact-tracing protocols as well as positive test results that continue to impact the Utes and the state of Utah in general, we do know that as late as Tuesday night and even into Wednesday morning, the Utes were on the button with 53 scholarship student-athletes ready to play.