Unless Craft beats him out.

Cowan is out for the year.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3370532

UCLA is going to be a mess next year. For our sake, they need to figure out a way to compete in the Pac 10 or they're looking at a Notre dame type season next year.

I expect heavy doses of their running game against us in Provo. (To be honest, I'd expect them to try our young secondary on the road; but their very inexperienced receiver corps + risk of turnovers and our scary pass rush will keep UCLA very honest).
Considering our prolific offense and the fact that we're playing at home, I don't expect that it'll be terribly competitive. They really don't have any weapons returning except running backs and linemen.

Their defense will be young and disjointed (although certainly still fast)playing at our house: we should be able to use misdirection to our advantage as there's simply no way that their defense will be mature enough (skillwise, experience and agewise) to be in the right place at the right time.

I hope we don't resort to simply trying to run over them though. That will work against 1/2 our schedule but not our pac 10 opponents. The fact that we may be capable of doing so though make it that much harder to game plan for us.

players declared for NFL draft from UCLA
DRAFTED PLAYERS POS ROUND PK(OVR) TEAM
Bruce Davis OLB 3 25(88) Pittsburgh
Matt Slater WR 5 18(153) New England
ALL PLAYERS POS HT WT GRADE FLAG POS RANK OVR RANK
Brandon Breazell WR 5'11" 160 Insider Only
Trey Brown CB 5'9" 185 Insider Only
Kevin Brown DT 6'1" 296 Insider Only
Joe Cowan WR 6'3" 225 Insider Only
Marcus Everett WR 6'0" 204 Insider Only
Brigham Harwell DT 6'0" 287 Insider Only
Christopher Horton S 6'0" 212 Insider Only
Dennis Keyes S 6'0" 205 Insider Only
Christopher Markey RB 5'9" 204 Insider Only
Michael Pitre FB 6'0" 245 Insider Only
Christian Taylor ILB 5'11" 225 Insider Only
Shannon Tevaga OG 6'2" 312 Insider Only
Rodney Van CB 5'10" 175 Insider Only

ya...This is how everybody was thinking before the bowl game. Remember how that turned out. If BYU doesn't come to play, and play hard, they will lose the game. I just hope n pray that the team will be focused for each game. (I know it sounds lame, but it is "one game at a time" to succeed.) the_other_blackguy@byu

Doesn't sound lame at all.

How does a QB get hurt in practice? don't they not take hits?

the_other_blackguy@byu wrote:

ya...This is how everybody was thinking before the bowl game. Remember how that turned out. If BYU doesn't come to play, and play hard, they will lose the game. I just hope n pray that the team will be focused for each game. (I know it sounds lame, but it is "one game at a time" to succeed.)
the_other_blackguy@byu

Biggest difference = Provo