High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The UCLA Bruins football team (Motto: Then ... Now ... Forever) opened the 2008 campaign by playing its first game at home against Tennessee under new head coach Rick Neuheisel, at 5:00 p.m. at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California. The Bruins played six of the Top 25 teams in the 2007 final Associated Press rankings, with eight opponents played in last season`s bowl games. More than half of the opponents had won nine or more games during the 2007 season.