PASADENA — DeShaun Foster grasped a headset for his halftime radio spot alongside sideline reporter Wayne Cook.
“The better disciplined team will win this game,” Foster said before jogging to the sideline for the second half.
It was a message he had shared in Costa Mesa – where strict media restrictions took shape – repeated in Westwood and again stated after the Bruins’ first two defeats of the season.
UCLA already trailed at halftime for the third consecutive week. The Bruins had yet to lead in a game all season. Penalties – of which UCLA tallied 14 a week ago, its most in a game since the 2014 season – were still rampant, recording eight (of 13 total) by halftime. Hapless on offense, the downtrodden Bruins submitted two three-and-out drives to begin the second half, quarterback Nico Iamelava ending the series by spiking the ball into the ground as his offensive line collapsed in front of him.
Foster’s halftime message appeared to fall on deaf Bruin ears in what became a 35-10 loss that sends the Bruins into their by week at 0-3.
New Mexico gaffed – a silver-platter gift for UCLA. Lobos wide receiver Michael Buckley fumbled on a punt return – the Lobos’ second turnover of the third quarter – flexing opportune field territory, debatably the Bruins’ best offensive play of the game coming on special teams.
UCLA couldn’t assemble a touchdown drive, done in by penalties that forced a Mateen Bhaghani field goal attempt. It didn’t matter. Lapse of identity and support in the stands beyond lower bowls full of underaged students on school trips – the Bruins couldn’t muster any fight.
It was an all-too-familiar sight through three weeks at the Rose Bowl. The second half was no better than the first. And the Bruins’ results went from bad to worse on Friday night in front of 31,163 fans, most of whom didn’t stay to have their say as the final whistle blew.
DeShaun Foster is now 5-10 as UCLA’s head coach, with potentially just one game left on the 2025 schedule in which the Bruins will enter favored.
New Mexico barnstormed all over the Rose Bowl grass, bullying UCLA for 298 rushing yards – to equal the success of Utah and UNLV.
When Scottre Humphrey, the Lobos’ lead running back, exited the game and never returned after the first quarter, the rest of the New Mexico tailbacks kept pace. Damon Bankston stormed 43 yards on a pass from quarterback Jack Layne on a touchdown to increase the New Mexico lead to 28-10, sending UCLA linebacker Isaiah Chisom face-first into the turf.
Bankston ended the game with a game-high 154 rushing yards, more than the Bruins’ combined 109 against the Lobos.
The Bruins showed some mettle in the pass rush against UNLV a week ago, but they failed to generate pressure against a New Mexico team that was a double-digit underdog.
Not one sack, not one tackle for loss – representing a whisper of an effort amid one of the worst starts – if not the worst – in program history.
More to come on this story.
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