The Associated Press polls were kind to the UCLA Bruins this week. For the first time since 1999, UCLA has teams in the Top-10 football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball polls.
UCLA is joined by just the Texas Longhorns as the only other school in the country with Top-10 teams in the three different sports. UCLA football leads the pack for the Bruins
with a No. 4 ranking, while the men’s basketball team is at No. 9 and the women’s basketball team is at the No. 10 spot.Doing it all 😎
— UCLA Athletics (@UCLAAthletics) November 9, 2026
For the first time since 1999, @UCLAFootball, @UCLAMBB, and @UCLAWBB are all ranked in the top 10.#GoBruins pic.twitter.com/poelw3OAKE
All three teams climbed in this week’s poll, with the football team rising from No. 5 up to No. 4, jumping Miami (FL) after
the Hurricanes’ loss to Notre Dame on Saturday. The men’s basketball team jumped from No. 22 up to No. 9 thanks to the team’s win over Arizona (currently ranked No. 12) and the team’s deconstruction of North Florida. UCLA’s women’s basketball team rose one spot after the defending champions’ 2-0 start to the season.
It doesn’t seem to be a coincidence that the school reached this feat just months after firing athletic director Martin Jarmond but the Bruins did have the pieces in place prior to Jarmond’s firing. First-year head coach Bob Chesney revitalized the football program while Mick Cronin and Cori Close have both proven to be capable of generating teams worthy of Top-10 consideration.
It’s been 26 years since the three Bruin teams all were in the Top-10 and when you consider how strong UCLA’s baseball and softball teams are, the Bruins are perhaps the strongest all-around athletics program in the country.
This article originally appeared on UCLA Wire: UCLA football, men's and women's basketball all ranked in AP's Top-10
