UCLA Football News: Chip Kelly Faces Moderate Pressure Amongst Pac-12 Peers

Kelly's job is not quite in jeopardy at the moment

The UCLA Bruins, under head coach Chip Kelly, have not been what many fans expected. Kelly was coming off his stint in the NFL, which was disappointing, but he excelled at the college level with the University of Oregon and was among the best college coaches at the time. 

Thus far, he hasn't been able to bring that with the Bruins, and the 27-29 record in his five seasons as coach proved that to be true. Nonetheless, Kelly is coming off back-to-back winning seasons, and things should be getting better with their 2023 squad. 

Nothing is set in stone, and anything can happen, but at the moment, Kelly's job is not in jeopardy, at least according to On3 college football columnist Jesse Simonton. 

Simonton ranked the Pac-12 head coaches amongst the most pressure heading into this season and put Chip in the "medium" category. 

Chip Kelly

is set to enter his seventh season at UCLA, which is wild since it seems like he was at Oregon just yesterday. He’s yet to win 10 games with the Bruins, which is why he certainly feels some heat before they move to the Big Ten in 2024. Kelly was overly aggressive in the transfer portal this offseason, and the

Bruins also flipped 5-star quarterback



Dante Moore

away from conference foe Oregon. Kelly has the program trending in the right direction, but even after receiving a contract bump in January, he needs to show continued progress this fall — especially with a new AD in charge.

(via On3)

UCLA and Kelly will look to get some good momentum before heading off to the Big 10, and it will all fall on Kelly. 

He's fallen short of expectations with UCLA, a school that is trying to build something and compete amongst the best with many resources other schools could only dream of. 

If things don't turn around for the Bruins, Kelly could be the one to get the axe sooner rather than later. But it seems like, at the moment, he's safe, but he could be walking on egg shells if things don't go well.