UCLA quarterback Nico Iamaleava throws down field against visiting Nebraska during the first half at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. The UCLA Bruins host the Nebraska Cornhuskers in a Big Ten Conference game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

PASADENA — The ease, the simplicity of how Nebraska moved downfield in Huskers quarterback TJ Lateef’s first collegiate start, was as if the true freshman had been studying for an exam and received the answers under his door the night before he took pen to paper.

In many ways, Nebraska had a game plan for how to exploit UCLA. Just look at the start of the season, the three-week more-than-slump that sunk early-season shine into doom and gloom with haphazard defensive displays against offenses that wrung th

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