(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
UCLA running back Carson Steele lost two fumbles, but his coach was willing to give him at least a partial pass because they were the result of vicious hits.
“Sometimes it’s not always your fault, it’s credit to the other side and I thought their safeties, especially, were really physical and did a nice job,” Kelly said. “You look at the first turnover, [Steele] cross-gripped, he had two hands on the ball and they still separated the ball from him and fundamentally he was doing what we teach him to do, but kind of tip your hat to them, that was a heck of a play on their part.”
UCLA won a Pac-12 game when committing at least four turnovers for the first time since committing five during a 2009 victory over Washington. Kelly acknowledged the odds were against his team considering Colorado had none.
“It’s the square root of pi, so take the square root of 3.1416,” Kelly cracked of his team’s chances in that scenario. “It wasn’t good. You know, usually you don’t win football games when you have four turnovers and in the first half.”