LOS ANGELES (AP) — For the second straight season, Tim Skipper finds himself leading a Bowl Subdivision team on an interim basis.

This time around, Skipper is in charge of winless UCLA, relying on what he learned at Fresno State in 2024 in hopes of helping improve one of the two winless power conference teams.

“The main thing that helps me is, like, I already have practice plans and formulas and things we need to do day to day,” Skipper said Wednesday. “I don’t have to think that on the go like I did last year, so that’ll set me in a much better place, and I already feel like I’m ahead of where I was last time.”

Skipper took over the Bulldogs in July 2024 after Jeff Tedford stepped down because of health concerns . That gave Skipper, a four-year starting linebacker at Fresno State and

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