LOS ANGELES — Key Lawrence didn’t want to talk about Northwestern’s offense.

It’s not that the Bruins’ starting safety doesn’t respect the Wildcats. He does. It’s not that the redshirt senior hasn’t watched film and knows how quarterback Preston Stone is going to distribute the ball. He’s seen the Wildcats play and Stone’s three-to-six touchdown-to-interception ratio.

But for Lawrence, he knows that to crawl out of the cellar of the Big Ten, the Bruins are going to need to channel a new focus that they’ve yet to show in 2025.

“I feel like we’ve lost because of the defense, or because of the stuff that we’ve done, like on our schemes, it’s because of us,” Lawrence said earlier this week, before UCLA plays Northwestern at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. “It hasn’t been because of other teams. It’s b

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