It is no surprise that the recently released preseason polls do not include the UCLA Bruins. The 2017 Preseason Top 25 polls also did not include the Bruins. We have to go back to 2016 to find the last time UCLA showed up in a preseason poll. UCLA entered that year ranked 16th ranked team in the AP Poll and 24th in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Of course, we all remember that debacle of a year in which UCLA ended 4-8.
The 2018 AP Poll does include four Pac-12 teams in the top 25 and two more teams in the “other teams that received votes” category.