Bruins Nation: Bruins Demolished As Expected In Manner Worse Than Expected

UCLA is only weeks removed from beating Texas in Austin. Yet tonight’s 60-13 loss to No. 1 Oregon makes people question just what’s wrong with Texas if they got beat by the same team that took the field against the Ducks Thursday night. UCLA blog Bruins Nation knew a beating was inevitable, they just didn’t realize it was going to be this bad.

Despite what some others think, I didn’t see a team that gave up on the field tonight. I think they were stunned at times, overmatched at others and completely puzzled, especially on defense, for spurts, but I think the physical effort was there from the players all the way until the end. In a game like this, we’ve seen teams look a lot less interested in the second half so that’s one small thing to take away in a game of huge problems. The Bruins also finished with just four penalties, an area where UCLA has struggled this season, although that could be attributed to not being able to catch enough Oregon players to commit a penalty on them.