Nearly two months ago, head coach Jim Mora said that despite a few recruiting misses, he wasn’t backing away from “big fish.”
That goes for the schedule too. UCLA announced today that it will play a home-and-home series with LSU in 2021 and 2024, starting in the Rose Bowl before going to Baton Rouge three years later. Granted, Mora might not even be in Los Angeles by then — his contract extends through 2019 — but he’s clearly trying to set the Bruins up as a perennial power.
In the past six months, UCLA has also scheduled home-home series with Texas A&M (2016/2017), Oklahoma (2018/2019), and Michigan (2022/2023).
Here is the nonconference slate for the next decade (!), though several dates are still TBA:
2015
Sept. 5 — Virginia
Sept. 12 — at UNLV
Sept. 19 — Nevada
2016
Sept. 3 — at Texas A&M
Sept. 10 — UNLV
Sept. 17 — at Nevada
2017
Sept. 2 — Texas A&M
Sept. 9 — Hawai’i
Sept. 16 — at Memphis
2018
Sept. 1 — TBD
Sept. 8 — at Oklahoma
2019
Aug. 31 — San Diego State
Sept. 7 — TBD
Sept. 14 — Oklahoma
2020
Sept. 5 — Rutgers
Sept. 12 — TBD
Sept. 19 — at San Diego State
2021
Sept. 4 — LSU
Sept. 11 — at Rutgers
Sept. 18 — TBD
2022
Sept. 3 — TBD
Sept. 10 — at Michigan
Sept. 17 — TBD
2023
Sept. 2 — Michigan
Sept. 9 — TBD
Sept. 16 — TBD
2024
Aug. 31 — at LSU