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UCLA football: Bruins picked 8th; yes, Neuheisel optimistic

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A year ago, UCLA Coach Rick Neuheisel said a successful season would end with a bowl game. Mission accomplished ... barely.

The Bruins went 0-5 in October, then managed to carve out a 6-6 season and earned a spot in the EagleBank Bowl ... after Army lost to Navy.

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This season, Neuheisel has left himself some wiggle room.

Success in 2010 will be “us being better than we were last year. I’d say I want the momentum to keep going,’ he said. ‘We were 4-8 in Year 1, and that was certainly not what I expected. Last year, we had a miserable October. We were in all the games but couldn’t get it done. We found a way to right it and go to a bowl game.”

UCLA was picked to finish eighth in the Pac-10 by conference coaches.

Getting the necessary six victories to be bowl-eligible will be a challenge for the Bruins. UCLA plays at Kansas State and at Texas, as well as having a home game against Houston.

But, Neuheisel said, “we made strides the last couple years, and that gives us the right to talk about being a good football team.”

--Chris Foster
twitter.com/cfosterlatimes

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