Zach Charbonnet leads UCLA football past Colorado

PASADENA — UCLA moving backmost Zach Charbonnet helped the Bruins flooded a dilatory commencement successful the archetypal fractional to decision Colorado 44-20 astatine the Rose Bowl.

UCLA (6-4 overall, 4-3 Pac-12 Conference) is officially vessel eligible for the archetypal clip nether Chip Kelly.

Charbonnet scored 3 abbreviated yardage touchdowns successful the 2nd fractional to assistance the Bruins propulsion away. Charbonnet had 17 carries for 67 yards and 3 touchdowns.

Quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson’s 23-yard touchdown tally with 6:07 near successful the 3rd 4th provided the Bruins with their archetypal pb of the game, aft trailing by arsenic overmuch arsenic 13 points successful the archetypal half.

Kyle Philips’ 82-yard punt instrumentality for a touchdown fundamentally enactment the crippled retired of scope for the Buffaloes, giving the Bruins a 44-20 pb with 10:10 near successful the 4th quarter.

UCLA needed a amended showing from its tally defense, aft allowing opposing moving backs to people 4 touchdowns successful each of the past 2 games. Colorado moving backmost Alex Fontenot scored a brace of 1-yard touchdowns successful the archetypal fractional to found the aboriginal lead.

Fontenot scored a touchdown with 4:53 near successful the archetypal 4th connected a thrust wherever the Buffaloes rushed for 5 archetypal downs connected the drive, including 1 connected a 16-yard tally by Jarek Broussard.

The Bruins couldn’t get retired of their ain way, having 2 large touchdown plays called backmost due to the fact that of penalties.

Charbonnet had a 51-yard touchdown tally called backmost aft choky extremity Greg Dulcich was called for holding.

Receiver Kam Brown had a 40-yard touchdown drawback called backmost connected 4th down, aft referees determined Brown stepped retired of bounds portion moving up the field. The punishment resulted successful a nonaccomplishment of down and the shot was turned implicit connected downs.

The discourtesy began to crook things astir precocious successful the archetypal fractional arsenic Philips had a 47-yard reception. Running backmost Brittain Brown would unreserved for 15 yards connected the pursuing play and beryllium brought down by antiaircraft tackle Mustafa Johnson who was called for a equine collar punishment connected the tackle.

Brown would chopped into Colorado’s lead, scoring a 1-yard touchdown connected the adjacent play. Colorado led UCLA 10-7, aft the palmy PAT, with 7:56 near successful the 2nd quarter.

Fontenot answered with his 2nd rushing touchdown connected a 1-yard touchdown with 5:22 near successful the 2nd quarter.

On UCLA’s adjacent possession, Thompson-Robinson hit Dulcich for the 55-yard summation and the archetypal down.

UCLA would settee for a 47-yard tract extremity effort connected fourth-and-12 but Nicholas Barr-Mira’s footwear was wide left. It’s the 3rd consecutive crippled successful which Barr-Mira has missed a tract goal.