PASADENA, Calif. — Less than three minutes of Saturday’s game, the time it might take to get up, go to the refrigerator, get a snack and sit back down in front of the TV, tells you all you need to know about this one.
On a day when they played for 3 hours and 14 minutes under an unrelenting Southern California sun in 86-degree temperatures, it was that meltdown in a telltale second quarter that turned things from competitive to lopsided for the University of Hawaii in a 56-23 demolition by UCLA.
When it booked this game you knew the only chance UH, an eventual 24-point underdog, had was to perform near perfectly.