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UCLA moves football season opener against Cincinnati to Thursday, Aug. 29

Chip Kelly coaches UCLA against Utah on Oct. 26, 2018, at the Rose Bowl.
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Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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UCLA announced Thursday that it had moved up its football season opener against Cincinnati to accommodate an ESPN broadcast.

The Bruins’ game against the Bearcats at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati will be on Thursday, Aug. 29. Kickoff time has not been announced. UCLA has another Thursday game scheduled, at Stanford on Oct. 17.

Moving up the Bruins’ opener by two days will give the team extra rest between games heading into its home opener against San Diego State on Sept. 7 at the Rose Bowl. UCLA’s final nonconference game will be Sept. 14 against Oklahoma at the Rose Bowl.

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The Bruins will open Pac-12 Conference play with games at Washington State on Sept. 21 and at Arizona on Sept. 28.

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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