Now UCLA visits famously raucous Death Valley for the Bruins' first game in Louisiana. The forecast calls for a hot, humid mid-September afternoon in the Bayou State. Foster, a former star UCLA running back before his six-year NFL career, wants the Bruins to embrace the challenge.

We'll be at Tiger Stadium, sharing our college football odds series and making a UCLA-LSU prediction and pick.

LSU already owns a loss against one of the Big Ten's new Los Angeles-based schools, but is a big favorite against the other this week, as the No. 16 Tigers welcome UCLA on Saturday. UCLA is coming off a forgettable Big Ten debut last week,