UCLA puts early-season setbacks in past with dominant win over USC

You may not have known who Sam Handler was, but you will know who is for years to come, especially between USC and UCLA.

After a decisive victory over the hated Southern Cal Trojans, Jim Mora and the UCLA Bruins have a fighter's chance of making it into the inaugural four-team College Football Playoff – win the next two games, and the odds might just stand in their favor.

The latest Coaches' and AP polls are in, and UCLA is in the top 10, as we should be. And when the more important College Football Playoff rankings are announced on Tuesday, we will be in the top 8, as we should be. Meanwhile, wave goodbye to Southern 

UCLA Football under Jim Mora is 0-5 against Stanford and Oregon, but the opportunity to avenge all those bitter defeat is here for the Bruins.

Mora wants his team to buy into a theory that the world ends with every UCLA game so the Bruins don't get caught looking ahead. You know, to possible conference championship games and maybe even a College Football Playoff. Mora wanted UCLA to