LOS ANGELES — To call No. 3 UCLA’s roaring start to the season impressive would, unobjectively, be an understatement.

Five wins, two being double-digit victories over top-15 programs, have comfortably placed the Bruins (5-0) in the upper echelon of the country. Coach Cori Close, whose program earned a single top vote in the latest Associated Press Top 25 poll , is confident UCLA won’t turn complacent with a Sunday game against Southern (1-4) before turning attention to No. 4 Texas (5-0) and No. 15 Tennessee (4-1) in the week to come.

“I think everybody looked at this week when it came out, and (went), ‘Whoa, what an opportunity,’” she said.

The 15th-year coach showed a video of former Alabama football coach Nick Saban preaching about outcomes becoming distractions. Close believes that

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