As the Cougars prepare to square off with UCLA on the road on Saturday night, coach Mike Leach and the players have taken note of how the team came together this season to the point that it became bowl eligible with three games to go in the regular season.
Mike Leach doesn’t like to use the word “maturity” to describe anything because, as he dryly told reporters this week, “It’s such a vague term; I used to get tagged by my parents and teachers as not having it all the time. So it’s not really my favorite word.