UCLA Football: Weekly variations in the 2018 offense

Go Joe Bruin looks at the weekly variations used by UCLA football head coach Chip Kelly in 2018 to try and analyze the evolution of the offense.

In order to fill the gap in spring ball news, let’s take one last look back at UCLA football’s 2018 offense scheme and how it morphed throughout the season. If you haven’t read our giant 2018 scheme summary article, that is a good primer for this post.

This chart shows the number of snaps and success rate for various schematic “wrinkles” that we tracked throughout the season. It’s busy, but just stare at it for a minute and it’ll start to make sense. You can see high usage items in blue, high success rates in green, and low success rates in red. All…