The game was over. The coach was cooked. The team was in tatters. The season was finished almost before it started.
With two minutes left in the third quarter of the season opener at a boo-wracked Rose Bowl on Sunday night, UCLA trailed Texas A&M by 34 points.
Thirty-four points.
It was a humiliation, everything everyone feared about the Bruins, their most dreaded flaws, their most ominous mistakes, their worst nightmare.
Then, with the flick and flick and flick and flick of a Josh Rosen wrist, it became their wildest dream.