As he crossed the goal line with the ball cradled in his left arm, Keisean Lucier-South extended his right arm into the chilly nighttime air and pointed his index finger skyward.
The moment late in UCLA’s blowout victory over California on Saturday served as a triumphant rebuttal for the Bruins linebacker and a defense that had absorbed some far less pleasurable finger-pointing.
It was little more than a year ago that renowned talent evaluator Rob Rang tweeted out footage of a play showing UCLA linebacker Krys Barnes jogging behind a Memphis receiver who took a screen pass and raced for a 42-yard touchdown.