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The Big Ten Conference announced on Tuesday the opponents new head coach Bob Chesney and the Bruins will face during the 2026 season. Whether the games will be played at the Rose Bowl or SoFi Stadium remains to be determined, but the Bruins will not be suiting up against Curt Cignetti and defending national champion Indiana. UCLA will hard launch the Chesney era on the road against rival California on Sept. 5 at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley.

Since Terry Donahue retired in 1995, UCLA football coaches have done something really special, what, a few times a decade? That 20-game winning streak under Bob Toledo qualified, the Bruins whirling toward a berth in the first-ever Bowl Championship Series title game at the end of the 1998 season until getting spun away thanks to that dreadful Hurricane Bowl loss to Miami.

Well, it was fun while it lasted ... wait, it's not over? There's somehow at least four games left in a UCLA football season that feels like it's already exhausted its story arc and run out of acts. Act I: The fall of a proud Bruin. Act II: The rise of a proud (Fresno State) Bulldog-turned-Bruin. Act III: A 50-point implosion that sucked the air out of the season and didn't please any Bruin.

Commanders general manager Adam Peters and adviser Bob Myers - who will be joined on the committee by sports executive Casey Wasserman, former NFL star linebacker Eric Kendricks and UCLA executive senior associate athletics director Erin Adkins - were part of the team that hired Washington coach Dan Quinn, who took the Commanders to the NFC Championship Game in his first season.

They will meet in a temporary lakeside stadium, where the home team is averaging 10,835 fans per game and a vile wind can make throwing the football a fool's errand.

Is there confidence in the current athletic director when there's been swing-and-misses," Neuheisel asked, "or do you need to go find somebody else?

"We are aware of the charges against Pierce Clarkson," "He has been indefinitely suspended from all team activity pending the outcome of the legal process. This situation will be evaluated by the UCLA Office of Student Conduct and any further action taken will be in accordance with that evaluation and University policy."

This wasn't close, no matter what the scoreboard said. This was a full-blown debacle. Given a chance to quickly right things after a season-opening blowout loss, UCLA instead doubled down on disappointment. The Bruins' 30-23 loss to Nevada Las Vegas on Saturday night at Allegiant Stadium showcased many of the same problems that had plagued them a week ago. The defense was slow and often out of position.