We have reached the halfway mark in Rick Neuheisel’s fight for survival at UCLA. It’s been very thrilling.
He lost a game he should have won in Houston to start the "Rick must go" campaign.
But he’s come back to win the games he had to win or get fired on the spot: San Jose State, Oregon State and Washington State.
Thursday night’s game in Arizona is now the swing game.
If the Bruins win, they still have a shot at seven wins; if they lose, they have no margin of error when it comes to winning six.
Six wins makes the Bruins bowl eligible but does not guarantee a bowl invitation or another year on the job for Neuheisel. When UCLA went to Washington, D.C., a few years back, it did so because it finished with six wins and the bowls ran out of seven-win teams to fill all the games.
Seven wins, though, earns UCLA a bowl game, and Neuheisel rejoins the living.
UCLA is 3-3. It’s hard to say any Pac-12 game is winnable for the Bruins, but if Neuheisel is correct in saying UCLA is on the right track, then it should beat Arizona, Cal, Colorado and Utah.
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