A preview of UNLV’s next opponent: UCLA

UNLV’s football team will try to carry momentum from its season-opening 63-13 rout of Jackson State into Saturday’s game at UCLA. Here’s everything you need to know about the Bruins:

■ WHO: UCLA Bruins

■ WHEN: 5 p.m. Saturday

■ WHERE: Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California

■ TV: Pac-12 Network

■ Line: UCLA -27

■ Last meeting: UCLA 37, UNLV 3 (Sept. 12, 2015 at Sam Boyd Stadium)

■ 2015 record: 8-5 (5-4 Pac-12); lost 37-29 to Nebraska in Foster Farms Bowl

■ Head coach: Jim Mora (overall record: 69-51, ninth year; school record: 37-17, fifth year)

■ Returning starters: 4 offense, 9 defense

■ Three players to watch: QB Josh Rosen, RB Soso Jamabo, WR Kenneth Walker

■ About the Bruins:

— Widely considered one of the top quarterbacks in the country, Rosen completed 26 of 46 passes for 343 yards and a touchdown, with three interceptions, under heavy pressure Saturday in UCLA’s 31-24 season-opening overtime loss at Texas A&M. The sophomore threw for 3,669 yards and 23 touchdowns last season, with 11 interceptions, en route to earning Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year honors.

— In last season’s win over the Rebels, running back Paul Perkins rushed for 151 yards and two TDs and Rosen completed 22 of 42 passes for 223 yards and a TD as the Bruins piled up 526 yards of offense.

— Walker led UCLA on Saturday with 115 receiving yards on six catches, including a 62-yard TD grab with 2:51 remaining.

— Jamabo gained 91 yards on 23 carries and Bolu Olorunfunmi added a 9-yard TD run Saturday to start the Bruins’ rally from a 15-point fourth-quarter deficit.

— Junior running back Nate Starks helped Bishop Gorman win the state title in 2012, rushing for 1,821 yards and 27 TDs before getting dismissed from the school in April 2013 of his junior year for violating school rules. Starks, who was third on UCLA in rushing last season with 320 yards and five TDs, was expected to be one of the Bruins’ top three running backs this season but didn’t make the trip to Texas A&M because of what UCLA coach Jim Mora described as a coach’s decision that he wouldn’t elaborate on to the Los Angeles Times.

— UCLA is 16-2 in its last 18 home openers, with the losses to Stanford and Oklahoma State.

Todd Dewey/Las Vegas Review-Journal. He can be reached at tdewey@reviewjournal.com