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UCLA football announces several date changes for future schedule

The Bruins have shifted a few upcoming games with Hawaii, LSU and UNLV

Sam Connon

UCLA football announces several date changes for future schedule
UCLA football announces several date changes for future schedule /

The schedule changes keep rolling in for the Bruins.

After All Bruins reported UCLA football's road game against LSU had been delayed from Aug. 31, 2024, to Sept. 21, 2024, on Wednesday night, the program came out and announced several other reschedulings for its future slate. Several of the changes were related to cancelations from the 2020 season, while others were actually new additions.

UCLA will now kick off its 2024 season on Aug. 31 with a trip to Hawaii, a game that was supposed to be played Sept. 5, 2020. To avoid playing four nonconference games in 2024, UCLA then agreed to push its Sept. 7, 2024, matchup with UNLV to Sept. 6, 2031.

The Bruins and Rainbow Warriors were already scheduled to play Sept. 18, 2027, at the Rose Bowl, but that game has now been replaced with a different game on the same date in Monoa. The game that was scheduled for 2027 has been moved to Sept. 9, 2028, a date UCLA previously had open.

The game between UCLA and San Diego State that was initially scheduled for Sept. 19, 2020, has also been moved to Sept. 13, 2031. The Bruins' 2020 season opener against New Mexico State has yet to be rescheduled.

According to the official contract obtained by the Daily Bruin in 2020, UCLA agreed to pay New Mexico State $1.2 million to visit the Rose Bowl on Aug. 29, 2020. The contract also stated the party that unilaterally cancels or refuses to participate in the game must pay the other party $1.4 million in liquidated damages.

Unless the Pac-12 reduces it nine-game conference schedule to eight, the next possible date the Bruins could play the Aggies would be in 2027. A UCLA Athletics spokesperson told All Bruins the department has "not yet rescheduled New Mexico State."

UCLA's entire future nonconference schedule is as follows:

2021

Aug. 28 vs. Hawaii
Sept. 4 vs. LSU
Sept. 18 vs. Fresno State

2022

Sept. 3 vs. Bowling Green
Sept. 10 vs. Alabama State
Sept. 17 vs. Southern Alabama

2023

Sept. 2 vs. Coastal Carolina
Sept. 9 @ San Diego State
Sept. 16 vs. North Carolina Central

2024

Aug. 31 at Hawaii
Sept. 14 vs. Fresno State
Sept. 21 at LSU

2025

Aug. 30 vs. Georgia
Sept. 6 at UNLV
Sept. 13 vs. New Mexico

2026

Sept. 5 at Georgia
Sept. 12 vs. San Diego State
Sept. 19 vs. Nevada

2027

Sept. 4 vs. Auburn
Sept. 18 at Hawaii

2028

Sept. 2 at Auburn
Sept. 9 vs. Hawaii

2029

Sept. 15 vs. Wisconsin

2030

Sept. 7 at Wisconsin

2031

Sept. 6 vs. UNLV
Sept. 13 at San Diego State

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Sam Connon
SAM CONNON

Sam Connon was the Publisher and Managing Editor at Sports Illustrated and FanNation’s All Bruins from 2021 to 2023. He is now a staff writer at Sports Illustrated and FanNation’s Fastball. He previously covered UCLA football, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, men's soccer, cross country and golf for The Daily Bruin from 2017 to 2021, serving as the paper's Sports Editor from 2019 to 2020. Connon has also been a contributor for 247Sports' Bruin Report Online, Rivals' BruinBlitz, Dash Sports TV, SuperWestSports, Prime Time Sports Talk, The Sports Life Blog and Patriots Country, Sports Illustrated and FanNation’s New England Patriots site. His work as a sports columnist has been awarded by the College Media Association and Society of Professional Journalists. Connon graduated from UCLA in June 2021 and is originally from Winchester, Massachusetts.

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