UCLA Football prepares for 2026 season
The 2026 UCLA Football season opens with the Spring Showcase on May 2 at the Rose Bowl, the Bruins’ home stadium in Pasadena. To learn more about the UCLA Football schedule, news, tickets and more, visit UCLA Athletics at the link below. The UCLA Football team represents UCLA in the NCAA Big Ten Conference going into the 2026 season.
The UCLA football schedule for 2026 begins with a home game against UC Berkeley on Saturday, Sept. 5. The majority of the regular season games will be played against Big Ten Conference opponents, with an additional out-of-conference matchup scheduled against Nevada on Oct. 31 at the Rose Bowl. To view the full UCLA football schedule, click the link below.
This upcoming season, UCLA Football has a new head coach, Bob Chesney. Chesney joined UCLA in December 2025 and previously coached James Madison University, College of the Holy Cross and Assumption College (now Assumption University). In recent spring practices, Chesney has worked to recreate real-game situations with time-outs and encourage competition, according to the LA Times. Click the link below to learn more about Chesney.
The Bruin community can purchase single-game tickets, season tickets and group tickets to UCLA Football games via the Central Ticket Office (CTO) website. The CTO also offers tickets for purchase for other UCLA Athletics events, the Center for the Art of Performance (CAP) at UCLA and more.
For more athletics information from the CTO, email cto@tickets.ucla.edu or call (310) UCLA-WIN (825-2946). Or,to contact UCLA Athletics Sales and Service, email tickets@athletics.ucla.edu or call (310) 206-5991 for more information.