It’s funny how college football turns role players into unlikely heroes. Not just on the field, but off it too. Bruins TE Hudson Habermehl entered with a lunch box and a laugh that summed up the Bruins’ chaotic but inspired turnaround. Because when Jerry Neuheisel got his big break calling plays for UCLA, he was so buried in schemes that he forgot to eat. Quite literally!

“ Hey, can you please bring food up to Jerry? He hasn’t eaten all day .” Habermehl said Jerry Neuheisel’s wife, Nicole, asked him to do it . Ever the loyal soldier, like Andrew Garfield in Hacksaw Ridge, he didn’t hesitate. “ So I go in that staff room and they’re scheming up plays and I would just joke, ‘Here’s your Uber Eats.’ ” he recounted.

That delivery was unvarnished and a figurative fuel

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