Ben Bolch

@calpostbbolch

California Post senior college sports reporter, starting QB and “The Great Ben Bolch” per ESPN | Email: bbolch@californiapost.com

Los Angeles triumphbooks.com/100UCLA Joined June 2009

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Ben Bolch @calpostbbolch Oct 20

COLUMN: Keep your calendar clear, your stadium blanket handy and your mind prepared for an unprecedented sight: UCLA will make the College Football Playoff in its first season under coach Bob Chesney.
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nypost.com Book it: UCLA will make the College Football Playoff under Bob Chesney Start an eight-clap. Sing the “Sons of Westwood.” Put on your Wayne Knight jersey. UCLA is going to the College Football Playoff. It’s a heady notion, this program moored in mediocrity...

Ben Bolch @calpostbbolch 2h

COLUMN: Without saying a word, UCLA told the CFP selection committee what it thought about where the Bruins stood in the initial rankings:

We control our own destiny, thank you very much.
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nypost.com UCLA won't let idiotic CFP selection committee leave it behind 8 ball MINNEAPOLIS — Take that, you inattentive dolts. Eat this, you SEC apologists. Get lost, you power-hungry losers. With its majestic triumph over Minnesota on Saturday, UCLA delivered the only...

Ben Bolch @calpostbbolch 2h

There’s a stunning fall from grace in the latest Big Ten football power rankings.
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nypost.com A juggernaut takes huge tumble in Big Ten football power rankings There's a huge shakeup involving a team that's used to being near the top of the conference standings.

Ben Bolch @calpostbbolch 13h

Fox in Minneapolis is showing Gophers hockey instead of Northwestern-Iowa football.

Ben Bolch @calpostbbolch 15h

In what looked like an instant replay, Ty Dieffenbach spotted favorable coverage, Aidan Mizell badly beat his man and the rest was highlight history — back-to-back 75-yard TD bombs that kept this special UCLA season hurtling toward the CFP.
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nypost.com UCLA smartly decides to Gopher broke with stunning back-to-back deep shots MINNEAPOLIS — If at first you succeed, try the exact same thing again. Why the heck not? That’s what UCLA’s Ty Dieffenbach and Aidan Mizell did in the fourth quarter Saturday, with stunning...