This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/ucla as Three Nebraska Defenders Who Could Give UCLA Trouble. The Bruins are back from their bye week, ready to take on a Dylan Raiola–less Nebraska team that hopes to spoil any remaining bowl game aspirations for the Bruins.

UCLA is last in the conference in penalties and penalty yards. Nebraska will need to use this to their advantage and capitalize on the mistakes of the Bruins. Once again they’ll need to keep cool heads if the game gets a little chippy, but overall they did pretty well with this last week with USC.

Nebraska’s crisscrossing adventures in the recently expanded Big 10 find the Huskers in a late-night showdown against the upstart UCLA Bruins.

One of UCLA's most frequent matchups in terms of Big Ten opponents, Nebraska and the Bruins have played 14 times historically and split the series 7-7 so far. Their last matchup was in November last season and the Bruins won in Lincoln, 27-20.

Former Tennessee Vols quarterback Nico Iamaleava is 3-1 in his last four starts for the UCLA Bruins. Iamaleava, who transferred from Tennessee to UCLA near the end of spring practice, got off to a slow start with the Bruins this fall,

Following its 21-17 home loss to USC, Nebraska football hits the road when it travels to the Rose Bowl for the first time since the 1990s to take

The Bruins will have numerous prospects on campus for their Week 11 matchup with Nebraska, including a 2026 wide receiver who is currently committed to another program.