OFFENSE: QB Tyrone Swoopes (No. 18, So.) As if the Longhorns hadn’t lost enough players to dismissals or suspensions before the season, they lost another crucial player last week when starting junior quarterback David Ash was ruled out indefinitely with a head injury. Read more...

Prior to each UCLA football game, the Daily Bruin football beat writers will predict the score, and give a short reasoning behind their prediction. To keep track of how far off each writer’s predictions are from reality, the “prediction differential” statistic shows the average difference between the writer’s predicted margin of victory and the actual margin of victory in each game. Read more...

Already without its top-two players from last season, UCLA men’s basketball’s hopes to defend its Pac-12 tournament title just took a hit, as four-star freshman forward Jonah Bolden was ruled academically ineligible for the season, according to ESPN. Read more...

The third episode of “The Drive” begins with what will likely be the most powerful first 15 minutes of any episode this season. Appropriately, the show devoted the first half of the 30-minute episode to the story of Nick Pasquale, a former walk-on wide receiver for UCLA who was struck and killed by a car in the early hours of Sept. Read more...

UCLA football added a new piece to its defense Thursday when defensive end Takkarist McKinley signed with the Bruins, transferring from Contra Costa College, Scout.com’s Greg Biggins reported. Read more...