2025 UCLA Soccer Predictions: Bruins Ranked forty eighth in RJ Younger’s Final 136

This is not your common school soccer rating.

My Final 136 is a set of rankings that’s fluid, nevertheless it’s my job to look forward and make a declare for all FBS groups based mostly on what I do know and why I do know it. Listed below are the three urgent questions I began by asking when placing collectively this record:

Who do I believe is sweet?Why do I believe they’re good?What are the probabilities they’ll end above or beneath my expectations?

Here’s a have a look at the place UCLA lands in my Final 136.

UCLA rating: 48Last yr’s rating: 74 High participant: QB Nico Iamaleava: Owns an 11-3 file as a beginning QB; totaled 2,930 passing yards, 21 passing TDs, 435 speeding yards, and 6 speeding TDs in his profession at Tennessee.

[UCLA’s 2025 schedule]

RJ’s take: As QB Nico Iameleava’s relationship with Tennessee grew extra acrimonious, it turned clear {that a} divorce was within the making. DeShaun Foster noticed a chance, and he took it.

In what seemed like a straight swap, projected Bruins starter Joey Aguilar transferred to Tennessee after Iamaleava transferred to UCLA. And, for the primary time in his brief profession at UCLA, Foster has a former five-star at QB. However Bruins followers know that alone will not repair their drawback of breaking via within the Huge Ten. They’d Dante Moore, who will begin for Oregon this season, and all they managed to point out for it was a single top-25 win, a metropolis championship over rival USC and an 8-5 file.

With Iamaleava at QB, the crew feels prefer it ought to have a greater passing assault, one other succesful rusher on the sphere always, and a playmaker when the play breaks down. However that will not matter a lot if UCLA would not enhance its speeding assault after rating 132nd amongst 134 FBS groups final season.

The slate is not sort both. UCLA will tackle Utah and UNLV in its non-conference schedule, whereas additionally taking part in Penn State, at Indiana, Nebraska, at Ohio State and at USC.

[Check out RJ Young’s Ultimate 136 College Football Rankings here]

UCLA Win Whole Odds: Over 5.5 (+126) Underneath 5.5 (-154)

Have a difficulty with my rankings? Suppose your alma mater is simply too low, or your college’s rival is simply too excessive? Get at me on X, @RJ_Young, and I will choose my favourite tweets and reply to them in a future article.

RJ Younger is a nationwide school soccer author and analyst for FOX Sports activities. Observe him at @RJ_Young.

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