A season rescued, a potential Rose Bowl berth saved, the UCLA football players danced joyously through the impending darkness.
All but the one who led them there.
As the Bruins rolled past their small group of shivering, chanting fans toward the visitor's locker room after a 17-9 victory over Utah at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday, one weary figure stood out.
It was Josh Rosen, and he wasn't running, he was walking, slowly, alone, using seemingly every ounce of effort to hold his gold helmet in his right hand, raise that helmet halfway into the air, and pump it twice.