Brittain Brown leads UCLA past Arizona football

TUCSON, Ariz. — UCLA overcame a unsmooth show by backmost Dorian Thompson-Robinson with its potent rushing onslaught led by Brittain Brown and Zach Charbonnet to bushed Arizona 34-16 connected Saturday nighttime astatine Arizona Stadium.

UCLA (4-2, 2-1 Pac-12) gained a season-high 329 rushing yards, led by Brown’s 146 yards connected 11 carries, including a 48-yard scoring burst successful the 4th quarter, and Charbonnet’s 117 yards connected 21 rushes.

“Arizona does a batch of things connected the backmost extremity (of their defense), dropping coverage, truthful we felt if they were going to effort to bash that, we request to tally the football,” UCLA manager Chip Kelly said. “The (329 yards) is simply a beauteous bully day. Both Brittain and Zach did a bully job. We did what we had to do.”

The Bruins, who won astatine Stanford 2 weeks ago, earned consecutive league roadworthy wins for the archetypal clip since the 2015 season.

Arizona (0-5, 0-2) has present mislaid 17 consecutive games.

Thompson-Robinson, who completed lone 1 of 8 passes with an interception successful the archetypal half, finished with an 8-of-19 show for 82 yards.

“A batch of what we based our passing crippled connected was what bundle and unit they were using,” Thompson-Robinson said. “Going disconnected their keys, they ran immoderate antithetic worldly and keyed connected definite guys.

“Based connected that, it was hard to get into a rhythm, but astatine the extremity of the day, you inactive person to execute.”

The Bruins person rushed for astatine slightest 200 yards successful 8 of their past 12 games, and they person outrushed their hostile 12 consecutive times. Arizona gained 122 yards connected the ground.

UCLA’s 329 rushing yards were the astir for the Bruins since they gained 345 against Nevada successful 2013.

Brown said it “was the program each week” for him and Charbonnet to eclipse 100 yards successful rushing.

“The violative enactment and the boys up there, they’re doing the champion they ever did, each crossed the board, the choky ends arsenic well,” helium said.

Thompson-Robinson’s 1 completion successful the archetypal fractional was a 3-yard scoring walk to Greg Dulcich with 3:48 near successful the archetypal 4th to springiness UCLA a 7-3 lead.

Arizona, which scored connected 3 of its archetypal 4 possessions, chopped the pb to 7-6 connected a 46-yard tract extremity by Lucas Havrisik with 14:18 near successful the 2nd quarter.

Two possessions aboriginal for UCLA, the Bruins enactment unneurotic different touchdown-scoring thrust of 72 yards, capped by Thompson-Robinson’s 2-yard run, expanding the pb to 14-6 with 3:01 near successful the half.

Arizona answered with a touchdown connected a instrumentality play with receiver Jamarye Joiner, a erstwhile backmost with the Wildcats, taking a lateral walk and throwing a 10-yard scoring onslaught to Michael Wiley with 30 seconds near successful the half.

Thompson-Robinson past threw an interception with 23 seconds near astatine the Arizona 44. The Wildcats ran 2 plays and clip expired.

UCLA received the opening kickoff of the 2nd fractional and Kazmeir Allen instantly gave the Bruins momentum with a 73-yard instrumentality to the Arizona 25.

The Bruins’ menace stalled astatine the 5-yard enactment and Nicholas Barr-Mira converted a 23-yard tract extremity with 13:17 near to springiness UCLA a 17-13 lead.

After different 46-yard tract extremity by Havrisik chopped the pb to 17-16, UCLA’s defence started to crook backmost the Wildcats, whose adjacent 4 possessions ended with 2 punts and 2 fumbles.

One of the fumbles occurred erstwhile Arizona backmost Jordan McCloud suffered a genu wounded erstwhile a big of tacklers landed connected him connected a sack by 320-pound tackle Otito Ogbonnia, forcing him to permission the crippled with 14:14 near successful the 4th quarter.

“The fumble was truly large for our squad particularly successful and up-and-down crippled similar this,” Ogbonnia said. “It was, successful my opinion, a large turning point, a large momentum shift.”

Thompson-Robinson’s 4-yard scoring tally successful the 3rd 4th and was followed by Brown’s 48-yard scoring tally 2 possessions aboriginal to summation the pb t0 31-16 with 7:48 near successful the 4th quarter.

Arizona was held to lone 63 yards of full discourtesy successful the 4th fourth portion UCLA gained 101, of which 79 came connected the ground.

Barr-Mira capped the scoring with a 43-yard tract extremity with 1:43 remaining.

The Bruins spell connected the roadworthy again adjacent Saturday, facing Washington successful Seattle, earlier returning to the Rose Bowl for 3 of their past 5 games.