LOS ANGELES — Weeks of hype came crashing down Saturday in Bloomington.

Bullied at the line of scrimmage and unable to record a touchdown for the first time this season, UCLA fell on its sword into the loss column for the first time since Tim Skipper’s first game as interim coach against Northwestern.

The week before the Bruins fell to the Huskies? A bye week. A week after the Bruins lost to the No. 2 Hoosiers? Another week to regroup and reassess where the team stands ahead of hosting Nebraska (6-2, 3-2) next week at the Rose Bowl, an appetizer to a main course of a game against top-ranked Ohio State in two weeks.

“The first one [bye week], we had only played three games, so you’re able to still do a lot of the physicality stuff that you need to do,” Skipper said earlier this week. “We

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