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UCLA Football: Play call/outcome analysis from the Oregon game

By Chris Osgood

PASADENA, CA - OCTOBER 06: Head coach Chip Kelly of the UCLA Bruins on the sidelines during the second half of the game against the Washington Huskies at the Rose Bowl on October 6, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)
PASADENA, CA - OCTOBER 06: Head coach Chip Kelly of the UCLA Bruins on the sidelines during the second half of the game against the Washington Huskies at the Rose Bowl on October 6, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images) /
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PASADENA, CA – OCTOBER 06: Head coach Chip Kelly of the UCLA Bruins on the sidelines during the second half of the game against the Washington Huskies at the Rose Bowl on October 6, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)
PASADENA, CA – OCTOBER 06: Head coach Chip Kelly of the UCLA Bruins on the sidelines during the second half of the game against the Washington Huskies at the Rose Bowl on October 6, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images) /

Go Joe Bruin continues with the weekly play call/outcome analysis article as Chris Osgood dives deep into UCLA football’s game against Oregon.

As far as scheme goes against Oregon, UCLA football‘s Chip Kelly didn’t really bring out much new in terms of pre-snap looks this week. The Utah-cloned “2×2 Tight” (from the UCLA vs Arizona game) came out once, “Trips Bunch Tight” (from the UCLA vs Utah game) also showed up once, and a wide flexed trips bunch (nailed it!) was used twice. Those four interesting formation plays were all unsuccessful passes. The rest of their 85 offensive snaps was 2018 vintage Chip Kelly vanilla college spread in terms of pre-snap alignment.

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The UCLA offense achieved a 69% run success rate this week against Oregon, their best run success rate of the season by almost a 30-point margin (previous best was 50% against Colorado).  Chip opened his post-game press conference asserting, “We thought we could run real well coming into the game”, so he definitely had something identified about the Oregon rush defense scheme that he knew he could and definitely did abuse repeatedly.

Chip assumed correctly that they wouldn’t have to do anything exotic to run the ball all over the Ducks (jet WR sweeps gone, OZRs gone, QB keeps gone, no pistol); the plan was more execution based this week.

Everything about our analysis will affirm the pop narrative that the offense would have been good enough to win this game in the absence of those special teams lapses.

YPP Chart

They are still doing a great job limiting negative plays (as opposed to earlier in season). There are lots of peaks and valleys in rolling average, which shows they are not sustaining successes and stringing positive plays together. That lone long outlier TD to Caleb Wilson dragged up the overall game average. Dare I point out Chip lost halftime again?