PASADENA — So this was what all the secrecy was about, eh?

Really, I don’t want to be too hard on UCLA’s football Bruins and coach DeShaun Foster for doing what … well, what the vast majority of college football coaches do, parceling out information sparingly, limiting access and keeping as much under wraps as possible. (I’d do it differently, but that’s one reason – of many – that I’m not in coaching.)

And I certainly don’t want to discourage Foster and the Bruins from scheduling ambitiously and challenging themselves. Opening against Utah, a former Pac-12 foe, is far more attractive to the casual fan than guaranteeing themselves a victory against an outmatched foe.

(Although scheduling your opener at 8 p.m. is pushing it just a bit. And yes, this edition of Big Ten After Dark came

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