Indiana will play a true road game for the first time this season as the Hoosiers compete inside Rose Bowl Stadium for the first time in more than 56 years.
Waiting for the Hoosiers is a UCLA team ready to host their first ever game as a member of the Big Ten Conference.
Meanwhile, both head coaches — IU’s Curt Cignetti and UCLA’s DeShaun Foster — get set to coach their first Big Ten games.
Here’s everything you need to know about IU’s week three matchup against the Bruins.
INDIANA (2-0) at UCLA (1-0)
- Kickoff: 7:30 p.m. Eastern, Saturday
- Location: Rose Bowl Stadium (89,702), Pasadena, Calif.
- Television: NBC — Noah Eagle (play-by-play), Todd Blackledge (analyst), Kathryn Tappen (sideline)
- Stream: Peacock
- Radio: IU Football radio network
- Odds: Indiana is a 3.5-point favorite
- Weather at kickoff: 78 degrees, sunny, wind 7 mph, 0% chance of precipitation.
- Series: First meeting
- The Coaches:
- Curt Cignetti is in his 14th year as a college football head coach. He has a 121-35 career record, including 2-0 at IU.
- DeShaun Foster is in his first career season as a college football head coach.
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— Indiana Football (@IndianaFootball) September 14, 2024
IU Football Week Three Coverage:
- A return to Rose Bowl Stadium 57 years in the making — a look back at IU football’s 1967 season
- Report indicates IU football receiver Donaven McCulley will play at UCLA
- IU football: Curt Cignetti taking lead on ‘eliminating noise’ of playing UCLA at Rose Bowl
- Radio show: IU football coach Curt Cignetti joins Don Fischer to preview UCLA
- Watch: IU football wide receiver Elijah Sarratt Q&A — UCLA week
- East 17th Street Ep. 3: It’s answers week as IU football travels to UCLA
- Indiana’s defensive philosophy beginning to take form in early games
- Watch: IU football defensive lineman Mikail Kamara Q&A — UCLA week
- Standout performers: three IU football players who made big plays against Western Illinois
- Watch: UCLA coach DeShaun Foster discusses Indiana
- Watch: IU football coach Curt Cignetti Monday media Q&A — UCLA week
- Breaking down Indiana football’s late first-half defensive issues
TALE OF THE TAPE
THE COMPLETE BIG TEN WEEK THREE SLATE
All times Eastern
SATURDAY, SEPT. 14
Central Michigan at ILLINOIS
Noon | Peacock
Arkansas State at MICHIGAN
Noon | Big Ten Network
Alabama at WISCONSIN
Noon | FOX
Prairie View at MICHIGAN STATE
3:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Nevada at MINNESOTA
3:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
OREGON at Oregon State
3:30 p.m. | FOX
Notre Dame at PURDUE
3:30 p.m. | CBS
WASHINGTON vs. Washington State
3:30 p.m. | Peacock
Troy at IOWA
4 p.m. | FS1
INDIANA at UCLA
7:30 p.m. | NBC
Northern Iowa at NEBRASKA
7:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Eastern Illinois at NORTHWESTERN
7:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
MARYLAND at Virginia
8 p.m. | ACC Network
UCLA RESULTS
UCLA won their first game 16-13 over Hawaii on Aug. 31.
UCLA LEADERS
UCLA NOTES (via UCLA Athletics)
• UCLA All-American and NFL standout DeShaun Foster was named head coach at his alma mater on Feb. 12, 2024. Foster spent the previous 11 seasons, including 10 at UCLA, in the collegiate coaching ranks. He also coached one year at Texas Tech. Foster spent the 2017-2023 campaigns as the Bruins’ running backs coach, adding the title of associate head coach in 2023.
• The UCLA defense surrendered just three second-half points, a feat it accomplished twice in 2023, at Hawai’i (Aug. 31). The Bruins shut out Utah (Sept. 23, 2023) and San Diego State (Sept. 9, 2023) in the final 30 minutes of those road contests.
• The Bruins piled up five sacks, 11 tackles for loss and two interceptions at Hawai’i. The UCLA defense in 2023 never reached all three totals in a single game. The TFL total matched the 2023 group’s season high, which it accomplished in road games against Stanford (Oct. 21) and Utah (Sept. 23). The 2023 Bruins finished with 105 TFL, a program high since 2009.
• The Bruin defense surrendered just 51 yards on the ground at Hawai’i. The 2023 group allowed fewer four times. UCLA has now given up 56 rushing yards or fewer in four consecutive season openers.
• The Bruins outscored Hawai’i 16-3 in the second half of its 16-13 season-opening road win. That marked the first time a UCLA team won a game after being held scoreless in the first half since Oct. 1, 2005, when it took down Washington 21-17 after trailing 10-0 at halftime.
• Redshirt senior QB Ethan Garbers registered career highs of 272 passing yards and 319 yards of total offense in UCLA’s season-opening 16-13 win at Hawai’i (Aug. 31). He completed 13 of 19 passes for 203 yards and one touchdown in the second half alone.
• Garbers was named offensive MVP of UCLA’s 2023 finale at the Starco Brands LA Bowl Hosted By Gronk (9-12, 152 yards and two touchdowns through the air in a 35-22 win against Boise State).
• Garbers was named to the watch list for the 2024 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, handed out annually to the nation’s top graduating quarterback.
• Garbers is coming off a junior season in which he recorded 1,136 yards and 11 touchdowns on 98-of-146 passing over 11 games (six starts).
PREDICTIONS
This game is widely expected to be a close one. Only a blowout either way would come as a surprise.
What the hell. Let’s believe in the Cignetti magic.
TDH PREDICTION: INDIANA 24 UCLA 23
ESPN SP+ (Computer) UCLA 26 Indiana 23
ESPN FPI (Computer): Indiana has a 58 percent chance to win
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