LOS ANGELES — Tim Skipper walked into Drake Stadium a month ago and attempted to right a ship that had already metaphorically crashed and sunk.

As he shook each of the media corps’ hands before his first time speaking to reporters as the Bruins’ interim head coach, Skipper represented a fresh face trying to ease UCLA through the rest of the already-downtrodden season.

On Tuesday, exactly one month since he became UCLA’s interim head coach, Skipper may be a household name among college football-loving fans across the nation. The Bruins’ meteoric rise from trending to an eventual upset against then-No. 7 Penn State , to the Big Ten team that their foes would least like to face, has led Skipper on a whirlwind four weeks.

Credit has been thrown toward Jerry Neuheisel , the boy who gre

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