UCLA football back to basics as Nebraska comes to town

LOS ANGELES — The last week in Westwood was not too dissimilar to how the focus was in Tim Skipper’s first week as interim-in-charge.

A turn back to football fundamentals became a calling card that ultimately led to UCLA’s comeback winning streak. UCLA might need a similar turn for the better – its first game in two weeks since losing to No. 2 Indiana 56-6 – when the Bruins host Nebraska on Saturday at the Rose Bowl.

Offensive lineman Garrett DiGiorgio has been a leader, a proponent of a clean start – literally helping clean out the locker room, a detail he said stands true to this moment.

“I think the biggest thing is just really getting back to kind of what he talked about earlier, the basics,” said the redshirt senior, the longest-tenured starter on the Bruins.

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