UCLA was on the verge of finishing off California in the third quarter of last Thursday's football game and Soso Jamabo, a freshman running back, was in the thick of the Bruins' burial touchdown drive.
Yet he couldn't help but think ahead.
Josh Rosen, the Bruins' wunderkind freshman quarterback, was running things and Jamabo was at his side in the backfield.
"I was thinking that Josh and I were going to have some fun the next three years," Jamabo said.
Rosen was handed the keys to the offense when the season began. Jamabo, a Texas-sized football star from Plano, Texas, was still on a learner's permit.