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FanPulse: UCLA Bruin Fan Confidence Increases Slightly After Loss to Oklahoma

UCLA remains one of just three programs with fan confidence under 20%.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: SEP 14 Oklahoma at UCLA
Bruin fans are really embarrassed by the state of Chip Kelly’s program.
Photo by Jevone Moore/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

On Saturday, the UCLA Bruins were crushed by Oklahoma, 48-14. This morning, we have the results from the weekly Bruins Nation FanPulse Fan Confidence poll.

I’ve got to admit that I was prepared for last week’s 8.1% to join Stanford at 0%, but it didn’t happen. In fact, it didn’t drop at all. Apparently, it actually went back up into double-digits.

That said, it’s still the third worst among Power 5 schools. Only Stanford and Rutgers, both of whom are at 0%, are worse than the Bruins.

The Bruins Nation Week 3 FanPulse Confidence Rating rebounded slightly to 12.8%.

The Bruins Nation FanPulse is a survey of more than 100 Bruins Nation readers who have agreed to take a weekly survey on college football. I want to encourage our readers to have their voice heard on a weekly basis by signing up to be a part of the FanPulse.

Of course, the question about the direction of the program is just one part of this week’s FanPulse. The other part is the Top 25 where fans are asked to rank the top 25 college football teams.

So, this week, we have the third Bruins Nation Top 25 poll along with the SB Nation national Top 25 poll. The biggest difference between the two polls is that Bruin fans ranked the Oklahoma Sooners fourth in front of LSU, while the nationwide poll has the LSU Tigers ahead of the Sooners. Bruin fans ranked the Utah Utes, a fellow Pac-12 South team, lower than the national poll did, while they ranked two Pac-12 North schools, Oregon and Washington State, higher.

Let’s take a look at both polls.

FanPulse Top 25 Polls, Week 3

Rank Bruins Nation Top 25 SB Nation Top 25
Rank Bruins Nation Top 25 SB Nation Top 25
1 Clemson Clemson
2 Alabama Alabama
3 Georgia Georgia
4 Oklahoma LSU
5 LSU Oklahoma
6 Ohio State Ohio State
7 Notre Dame Notre Dame
8 Auburn Auburn
9 Florida Utah
10 Utah Florida
11 Michigan Michigan
12 Texas Texas
13 Wisconsin Wisconsin
14 Penn State Penn State
15 Oregon UCF
16 UCF Oregon
17 Texas A&M Texas A&M
18 Washington State Iowa
19 Iowa Washington State
20 Boise State Boise State
21 Washington Washington
22 Michigan State Michigan State
23 Maryland Virginia
24 Virginia Maryland
25 Arizona State Arizona State


Don’t forget! You can still sign up to participate in the SB Nation/Bruins Nation Fan Pulse before this week’s poll goes out after the conclusion of Week 4’s college football games on Saturday.

What do you make of this week’s results? What do you think about the confidence level of the direction of the UCLA football program? Let us know in the comments!


Go Bruins!