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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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NORMAN, OK – SEPTEMBER 08: Head coach Chip Kelly of the UCLA Bruins during the game against the Oklahoma Sooners at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on September 8, 2018 in Norman, Oklahoma. The Sooners defeated the Bruins 49-21. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)
NORMAN, OK – SEPTEMBER 08: Head coach Chip Kelly of the UCLA Bruins during the game against the Oklahoma Sooners at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on September 8, 2018 in Norman, Oklahoma. The Sooners defeated the Bruins 49-21. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images) /

Weekly Chart

The overall success rate was near season high (48% vs Oregon is 2nd only to the 49% when they blew out Cal).  The run success rate won’t be repeated by UCLA this season (69%!), but they couldn’t run enough (38% runs vs 62% pass) due to special teams mishaps. YPP not so bad at 5.8 (better than all but two other games this year). They mostly stayed on schedule (very low % pass downs).  If you start at Colorado and ignore Utah, overall trend for things like YPP (light blue) and overall success rate (dark blue) are definitely trending steadily and slightly upward. Watch out if they clean up the drops and get one QB into a rhythm.

Footnote

The google doc linked here has every UCLA offense play logged with the situation, pre-snap details, and post snap results. I like to look for how the situation and pre-snap looks inform play calling and results. In the past, I’ve done this (on staff) for the SBN NFL Chargers blog, and got a lot of great reader participation.

Next. The Top 10 Bruin Quarterbacks of All-Time. dark

My hope is that readers look at it and find stuff along with me (something pre-snap is a tell, something else very successful). This post introduces the column has context for everything in the log.