Cal Backs Up Talk in Victory : College football: Treggs, Pawlawski work in stereo, on the field against UCLA and off.

They are the brash and bash boys from the Bay, and when they finished beating up on UCLA’s Bruins in a Pacific 10 game at the Rose Bowl Saturday, they kept banging away in the postgame interview session.

They are Brian Treggs and Mike Pawlawski, wide receiver and quarterback, respectively, of the California Bears, who came from behind to beat the Bruins, 27-24. And they both play as good a game as they talk, as evidenced by their individual statistics and Cal’s stunning 4-0 start this season.

Treggs is a senior from Carson High who set a Cal record for catches in a career with seven Saturday for a total of 141, breaking the mark of 138 set in the mid-1970s by Steve Rivera. Treggs has caught at least one pass in 28 consecutive Cal games.

Pawlawski is a senior from Troy High in Fullerton, who has taken Cal to an 11-4-1 record since becoming a starter, and who passed for 292 yards against UCLA. His 27 for 39 passing day Saturday actually dropped his season completion average from 71% to 70.3%.

Treggs calls Pawlawski “the greatest two-minute quarterback I have ever seen.” The assumption is that Treggs has missed film clips of Unitas, Starr and Van Brocklin, not to mention games featuring Marino, Kelly or Montana.

But then, with these Cal Bears--and especially with Treggs and Pawlawski--being brash comes easily. And when you are 4-0, the bravado adds an element of fun.

Treggs, who spends much of the week before each game providing inspirational locker-room bulletin-board fodder to the opposing team, said afterward, “Yup, along about 24-14 (with UCLA leading), I was thinking, ‘Oh, man. I might eat my words this time.’ ”

But saved that embarrassment by Cal’s 13-point rally in the last six minutes, Treggs, a walking talk show, was ready to roll again.

“You could see it was going to happen,” he said. “When they were up by 10, at 24-14, the UCLA linemen were walking up to the line, and Maddox wasn’t even into the game.

“They looked like they thought the game was over. They didn’t respect us, and they paid the price.”

(UCLA quarterback Tommy Maddox, responding, said: “I don’t have to reply to anything he says. But I’ll tell you, we never let up. We never stopped trying.”)

Treggs also said: “You can’t expect tradition alone to do it for you.”

Pawlawski, the college version of Jim McMahon--a quarterback who thinks like linebackers and doesn’t mind colliding with them--said that some UCLA players had tried a psychological edge that had backfired.

“When we beat them last year,” he said, “they started wearing T-shirts about a fifth quarter, like they would have beaten us if we could have kept playing. Well, looks like today they should have been thinking about the fourth quarter, instead of the fifth, because that’s when they needed to play.”

Pawlawski also said that, while beating UCLA was important, his team really hadn’t played that well and still managed to win.

“We didn’t play Bear football,” he said. “When you play Bear football, you execute. You don’t fumble, you don’t throw interceptions, you don’t miss blocks. But we won anyway, because that’s how we are. Other teams, they get down 10 points, they stand around and hope that something will happen, that somebody will fumble. We get down, and we just say, ‘Hey, we’ll just go out and get a TD or a field goal or whatever.’ We don’t stand around and hope a lot. Not this team.”

Not this team, indeed. Led by their two non-shy guys, Treggs and Pawlawski, the 1991 Cal Bears have already made a mark. If you don’t believe that, simply ask them.