While UCLA’s offense suffered from season-crippling identity crisis, the team’s defense also came up well short of expectations in last Saturday’s season-ending loss.
Cal controlled the ball for more than 42 minutes, converting 6 for 19 third-down tries and twice more on fourth down. After averaging 23.1 points allowed through the first seven games of the year, the Bruins yielded 33.6 points in the final five games.
“We just have to keep our execution throughout the year and I guess we didn’t,” linebacker Jayon Brown said Saturday night after UCLA’s 36-10 loss to Cal.
UCLA ran just 54 plays Saturday to Cal’s 102 and had its second-lowest time of possession in a game this year.