{"id":462009,"date":"2026-09-12T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462009\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:50:08","slug":"ucla-football-vs-san-diego-state-live-updates-start-time-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462009\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA football vs. San Diego State: Live updates, start time, watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \u2018It was a lot of fun.\u2019 UCLA surges late, opens Bob Chesney era with win over Cal <\/p>\n<p>BERKELEY\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/player\/wayne-knight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wayne Knight<\/a> didn\u2019t have any Power Four conference offers when he graduated from high school in Delaware. On Saturday, playing for a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCLA<\/a> program with high expectations, he ran for three touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>During the  opening game of the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\/story\/2026-07-26\/bob-chesney-is-going-to-do-impossible-at-ucla-win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Chesney era<\/a>, UCLA\u2019s run game looked dominant during a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\/live\/ucla-football-cal-live-updates-start-time-watch-score-highlights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">45-24 road win<\/a> over California. Knight, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\/story\/2026-08-24\/jmu-players-says-bob-chesney-inspired-their-moves-to-ucla\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of 10 players<\/a> who joined Chesney moving from James Madison to Westwood, was the leader of a group that ran for six touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou always want to get on the big stage and show everyone that you can do it,\u201d Knight said in the cramped visiting press room of California Memorial Stadium, barely rising above the noise of the locker room celebration outside. \u201cRight now, it\u2019s very fulfilling, but we got a lot more to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018It was a lot of fun.\u2019 UCLA surges late, opens Bob Chesney era with win over Cal BERKELEY\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Wayne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[182106,8932,5817,6270,29691,4737,100143,18035,74,76,75,300,182105,14921,315,18157,8934,1539],"class_list":["post-462009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-aerial-attack","tag-bruins","tag-drive","tag-home-opener","tag-iamaleava","tag-kennedy","tag-matthews","tag-offense","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-state","tag-teaching-moment","tag-third-quarter","tag-time","tag-ucla-football","tag-victory","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}