PASADENA, Calif. -- Jedd Fisch wanted to take a chance. His team was in the process of erasing a monumental 44-10 third-quarter deficit, so Fisch, in his first game as UCLA's offensive coordinator, decided to roll the dice on third-and-5 from the Texas A&M 10-yard line.
Forget that there were barely 40 seconds left in Sunday's game at the Rose Bowl, and history was on the line. Fisch figured in that moment, the best answer was to get cute. He was about to ask his superstar quarterback to fake a spike and heave a prayer on a fade to the end zone to pull off the unthinkable.