As he scanned the locker room after UCLA’s fifth consecutive loss to open the season, Quentin Lake was reinvigorated by what he saw.
“You would think guys would be down, like OK, we might not be able to do this,” Lake, the Bruins’ sophomore safety, said of the scene last weekend after his team’s 31-24 loss to No. 10 Washington, “but I saw people smiling. I was telling the guys we played really well and I saw everybody’s head was up and excited to come into this week and prepare for Cal.”
The Golden Bears (3-2 overall, 0-2 Pac-12 Conference) will enter their game against UCLA (0-5, 0-2) on Saturday at California Memorial Stadium as a touchdown favorite, the same designation they held against Bruins coach Chip Kelly’s first Oregon team in 2009.