Head coach of the UCLA Bruins Chip Kelly was on the sidelines in the course of the first half in opposition to the Oregon Geese at Autzen Stadium on October 22, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon. (Photograph by Tom Hauck/Getty Photographs)
UCLA remains to be 14 months away from formally making the transition from the Pac-12 Convention to the Large Ten.
The UCLA soccer program felt a way of inclusion Thursday when the convention introduced which groups it is going to have on the schedule for the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
For 2024, the Bruins are scheduled to play Ohio State at house and journey to Michigan and Iowa however the instances and dates for these video games weren’t disclosed for any of the matchups introduced Thursday.
The Wolverines have received eight of the 11 video games within the head-to-head sequence in opposition to the Bruins however UCLA received the final assembly, 23-20, in Pasadena in 2000.
The groups have been imagined to compete in a home-and-home sequence in 2022 and 2023 however Michigan determined to pay UCLA the required $1.5 million to terminate the contract in 2019. UCLA added video games in opposition to HBCUs instead of the Michigan video games.
UCLA can have Nebraska and Rutgers as its “two-play opponents” that means the Bruins can have each the Cornhuskers and the Scarlet Knights on the schedule for 2024 and 2025. The rivalry with USC additionally stays on the schedule, extending the annual sequence that’s taken place yearly since 1936.
The Bruins beat the Cornhuskers of their previous two nonconference video games in 2012 and 2013, however UCLA misplaced the assembly in opposition to Nebraska within the 2015 Foster Farms Bowl.
UCLA’s upcoming recreation in opposition to Rutgers would be the first time the 2 applications have squared off.
The Bruins have a mixed all-time report of 47-43-3 in opposition to the present groups within the convention.
The Bruins’ final assembly with the Hawkeyes in 1986 was additionally the final time UCLA received the Rose Bowl matchup.
Ohio State and UCLA have break up the nine-game sequence of their historical past, with every holding 4 victories and one tie.
The Bruins bought one of the best of the Buckeyes of their solely Rose Bowl Sport assembly, a 23-10 victory in January of 1976.
UCLA coach Chip Kelly has a historical past with Ohio State coach Ryan Day. Day performed quarterback at New Hampshire with Kelly as his offensive coordinator from 1999 to 2001. Kelly went on to turn out to be the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and employed Day as his quarterbacks coach in 2015. Day adopted Kelly to San Francisco the place each held the identical positions for the 49ers.
Kelly and Day have been on a golf course collectively when Day and Kelly discovered that the Bruins can be becoming a member of the Large Ten Convention.
UCLA is anticipated to complete out contracted nonconference sequence in opposition to Fresno State, Hawaii and LSU scheduled in 2024 earlier than the beginning of Large Ten play.
UCLA upcoming soccer opponents:
2024:
Nonconference:
at Hawaii
vs. Fresno State
at LSU
Large Ten Convention:
House: USC, Ohio State, Northwestern, Minnesota, Nebraska
Away: Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Rutgers
2025:
Nonconference:
vs. Georgia
at UNLV
vs. New Mexico
Large Ten Convention:
House: Wisconsin, Rutgers, Purdue, Maryland
Away: USC, Penn State, Nebraska, Michigan State, Illinois
Donahue to be honored with Rose Bowl statue
Former UCLA soccer coach Terry Donahue can be honored with a statue on the Rose Bowl this fall. The statue can be unveiled in a ceremony on Oct. 27 on the stadium.
Donahue, who’s UCLA’s winningest coach with 151 victories, would be the fourth statue on the venue, becoming a member of Jackie Robinson (devoted in 2017), the 1999 Crew USA FIFA Girls’s World Cup Champions (devoted 2019) and broadcaster Keith Jackson (devoted 2019).
