UCLA Bruins Football on the Rise!

UCLA Bruins football team lost eight key starters on both sides of the ball to the 2016 NFL Draft and yet are on the rise to be one of the top teams in the PAC 12 in the 2016 season.

In the 2015 season freshman quarterback Josh Rosen exceeded expectations quickly and proved his doubters wrong, in a season where he was expected to do decent because of the environment of the PAC 12 and the inexperience along with being a freshman.

The 2016 season will be one of many more different doubters, critics, and the UCLA Bruins exceeding expectations and proving them wrong.

He has now had one year of experience in the competitive Pac 12 conference and now has a taste of what the NCAA college football world is like.

Now with experience as a young player he only has one way to go; up and keep maturing.

The UCLA Bruins had a chance to make it to the conference championship game until they lost to USC.

The game between USC and UCLA decided who would play in the PAC 12 Championship game against Stanford because both these teams beat the top team in the PAC 12 South division Utah.

This is a competitive conference where each team can defeat each other at any stadium and any time.

Not only is this division competitive and possibly one of the best; each team every year is improving.

Multiple players from multiple teams in the 2015 PAC 12season were drafted in the 2016 NFL Draft.

This evidence just goes to show you who much talent comes out of the PAC 12.

For example former Cal quarterback Jared Goff went number 1 overall in the 2016 NFL Draft.

These departures will have an affect on the confernce this year, in the fact that we will see teams in the standings in the conference where they normally are not because they have not performed at that high or low of a level in awhile.

UCLA will be one of the top 3 teams in the conference in 2016 with 8 key starters gone.

They have been able to sign some good recruits out of high school and as the off-season continues they will continue to sign more talented recruits.

They went 8-5 in the 2015 season and Rosen had great freshman year throwing for 3,670 yards with 292 completions out of 487 attempts which is a 60 % completion rating and a raw QBR rating of 68.7 %

This is not bad for a freshman in shark infested waters.

In 12 games and the bowl game against Nebraska he only thew 15 interceptions and 23 touchdowns.

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I expect the UCLA Bruins football team to win at least 10 games and make it to the PAC 12 Conference Championship game in the 2016 season.