UCLA's Rahim Moore (3) celebrates UCLA's win over Tennessee in Pasadena, on Monday(AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Things like this just don't happen over in Westwood. Not in football anyway. A 27-24, " I-do-NOT-believe-what-I-just-saw" overtime victory? No way. Against a ranked SEC team? Nahhhh. Not when third string QB Kevin Craft is still learning his way around the UCLA campus much less his way around the UCLA playbook. A point made painfully clear in his FOUR INTERCEPTION "effort" in the first half. Not when the Bruins lost not one, not two, but THREE key starters; Seniors Logan Paulsen, Khalil Bell and Marcus Everett in the FIRST QUARTER! Bruin fans were more than ready to accept an "L" especially with the Tennessee Volunteers from the mighty SEC in town.

But something funny happened on the way to Westwood. The Bruins started to make believers out of us. The Bruin D made us believe. They made plays when the offense kept digging holes; like a timely forced fumble at the Bruins' 6 yard line. They brought consistent pressure to what was deemed the SEC's best offensive line. They forced Tennessee QB Jonathan Crompton to go 11 of 23 for 119 yards and an interception in the first half and finish even worse with 19 of 41 for 189 yards and NO TOUCHDOWNS.

Craft after his first half debacle also believed and looked like a completely different player in the second half. He made the smart plays, stayed calm against the rush and went 18 of 25 for 193 yards, a touchdown and more importantly (amazingly) NO INTERCEPTIONS. He put together a gutsy (dare we say Crafty?) second half performance highlighted by a 70 yard touchdown drive to give the Bruins the lead with :27 seconds left. The team believed, and even after the Volunteers, and their shaky kicker Daniel Lincoln sent the game to overtime fans still believed that a win was more than possible.

This was a team last season marked by second half falterings and failures, not second half adjustments and achievements. A team that looked like it was more interested in getting to Pauley and watching the basketball game than a to a bowl game. But under Rick Neuheisel and his two most important recruits Norm Chow and DeWayne Walker, change, POSITIVE change could be Bruin in Westwood. We are all ready to believe.