UCLA football was dominant in every phase of the game in a win over Hawaii, improving to 2-0 on the year with a 56-23 home victory.
It hasn’t been without a scare or two along the way, but UCLA has started out the 2017 season with a pair of non-conference victories. They opened the season with an improbable 45-44 come from behind victory over Texas A&M in Week 1. Next up was Hawaii out of the Mountain West.
The gap between even a middling SEC program and the MWC is tremendous. UCLA proved that with a runaway victory over a 2-0 Hawaii team that had started the season out strong prior to making the trip to California.
You’ve heard coaches laud a “team effort” in post game press conferences. While it might be standard coach speak, it applies remarkably well to the Bruins’ victory on Saturday. Josh Rosen was electric, the running game made significant strides and the defense jumped in on the scoring as well.
Let’s take a closer look at each piece of that drove the Bruins’ to their second win of the 2017 season, starting with the defense.