COLLEGE STATION, Texas – “This is the new UCLA,” said Kennedy Polamalu, the new offensive coordinator. His tone assumed that “new” means “better.”
Certainly it was different, as day became dusk in boiling, deafening Kyle Field on Saturday. There won’t be many games during this college football season that will match the crescendo of this one.
The first half was a tedious parade of missed third downs. The third quarter was a demonstration of Texas A&M’s deadly hurry-up offense and irresistible pass rush.
And then UCLA roared back from a 24-9 deficit and put it into overtime, on two drives in the final 7:18 that featured old and new Bruins alike.