LOS ANGELES — Garrett DiGiorgio is the longest-tenured starter at UCLA. He’s been in Westwood for the Bruins’ highs of the top-10 rankings in the Associated Press poll in 2022 and taking down USC in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 2021, with Dorian Thompson-Robinson riding high at quarterback for the Bruins.

The offensive lineman hadn’t, however, experienced the deafening lows of last week’s bye week, a UCLA (0-3) team pressing the refresh button over and over again and attempting to rise after a crushing start to its 2025 season, which went so poorly that second-year head coach DeShaun Foster earned an early-season firing.

DiGiorgio recognized the sulk and sadness – somewhat unprecedented in Westwood or any college football program besides Virginia Tech, which also made a coaching

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