UCLA Football Releases 2015 Schedule

The Pac-12 released the 2015 football schedule, and it's, well, interesting.

2015 UCLA Football Schedule
Sept. 5        Virginia
Sept. 12      at UNLV
Sept. 19      BYU
Sept. 26      at Arizona
Oct. 3         Arizona State
Oct. 10        BYE
Oct. 15        at Stanford (Thurs.)
Oct. 22       California (Thurs.)
Oct. 31       Colorado
Nov. 7        at Oregon State
Nov. 14      Washington State
Nov. 21      at Utah
Nov. 28      at USC

At first glance:

• TWO Thursday games this year, and they are back to back, and unfortunately, against our Northern California foes.  It will be a bummer that the Stanford game is a Thursday, as that hurts the tailgate options for Bruin Bash in their only NorCal appearance in 2015.
• UC Berkeley's regularly scheduled beatdown at the Rose Bowl may be before a half empty Rose Bowl, with it being on a Thursday night.
• At least BYU is coming to the Rose Bowl.
• Trick or treating at the Rose Bowl, anyone?  Too bad it's not against Oregon state, who comes in the week after.
• We close the season with two straight road games, and finally end the season the way it should be, with a solid rivalry game against Southern Cal.
• We avoid Washington and Oregon this cycle.