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UCLA Football Returns to Action at Arizona
October 09, 2017 | Football
UCLA at Arizona
Saturday, October 14, 2017 – 6:00 p.m. (PT)
Venue: Arizona Stadium (56,000)
Television: Pac-12 Networks
TV Talent: Roxy Bernstein (play-by-play), Anthony Herron (analyst), Lewis Johnson (sideline)
Radio (UCLA Sports Network from IMG College): AM 1150/AM 570
Radio Talent: Josh Lewin (play-by-play), Matt Stevens (analyst), Wayne Cook (sideline)
SIRIUS/XM Radio Channels: Sirius Ch. 93/XM Ch. 197/Internet 974
BRUINS HEAD TO THE DESERT TO BATTLE ARIZONA
UCLA (3-2, 1-1) travels to Tucson to meet Arizona (3-2, 1-1) on Saturday, Oct. 14 at 6:00 p.m. in a Pac-12 Conference tilt. The game will be televised by Pac-12 Networks. The Bruin IMG Radio Network will radio broadcast the contest, which will also be aired over Sirius/XM, uclabruins.com and tunein.com and the TuneIn App.
The Bruins, who are looking for win number one on the road this season, own decisions in the last five meetings in the series, including victories in the last two match ups played in Tucson. The Bruins' overall record in the games played over the years in the desert is 10-11. The Bruin victory in the 2012 contest snapped a stretch of five-straight Wildcat wins, giving each team a split over the last 10 meetings.
Last season, the Bruins opened up a 14-7 halftime lead before putting the Wildcats away 45-24 in the Rose Bowl to earn their first conference win of the 2016 season. Josh Rosen threw for 350 yards and three scores in that game, including a 19-yard toss to Theo Howard for his first career scoring reception. Darren Andrews had nine catches for 108 yards and also ran 26-yards for a score.
In 2015 at Tucson, then true freshman Josh Rosen threw for 284 yards while accounting for three touchdowns in his first Pac-12 road game. UCLA turned three Arizona turnovers into touchdowns as they built a 28-point first half lead. The defense, which had lost starters Eddie Vanderdoes (DL), Myles Jack (LB) and Fabian Moreau (DB) heading into the contest, gave up an early 34-yard touchdown pass but it was all Bruins after that. UCLA quickly evened the score, cashing in on its first drive of the game, on a 35-yard dart from Rosen to Thomas Duarte. Arizona's second series ended when a snap sailed over the quarterback's hand and the Bruins recovered. On the next play, Paul Perkins scored on a 16-yard run. The Wildcats later lost another fumble and soon after Rosen found Jordan Payton for a 5-yard touchdown pass that put UCLA up 28-7 early in the second quarter on its way to a 56-30 victory.
In the 2013 Bruin (31-26) win at Arizona, UCLA snapped a four-game losing skid in Tucson. Brett Hundley threw for two touchdowns and ran for another in a return to his home state. Myles Jack filled in at running back and ran for 120 yards on six carries, including a 66-yard scamper to the Wildcat end zone in the fourth quarter. At the time, it marked UCLA's first win in Tucson since the 2003 season.
In the last 13 meetings, the winning team has scored at least 27 points in all but one game, and has scored at least 30 points in nine of those 13 battles.
THE WATCH LIST
• A win at Arizona would be the 600th overall in UCLA football program history. The Bruins played their first games in the 1919 season.
• Josh Rosen's streak of 7 straight 300-yd passing games is the longest current streak in the nation (Mason Rudolph-Ok.St. 6, Will Grier-WVa 5).
• Darren Andrews, who is second in the nation in touchdown catches with seven, entered the all-time top 10 list at the school in career receptions against Colorado. He is tied for eighth with Sean LaChapelle at 142 career catches. Andrews needs 12 more catches to reach the school's all-time Top 5 and 270 additional yards to move into the top 10 in receiving yards.
• Jordan Lasley registered his third 100-yard receiving game of the season with his 146-yard effort vs. Colorado. It was the fifth career century mark game for Lasley. In the last two games, he has 18 catches for 304 yards.
• The Colorado game marked the 14th-straight in which Josh Rosen has thrown at least one TD pass, a school-record number ... Rosen has at least one scoring pass in 23 of this 24 career games (not Washington State) ... The Stanford game was his 9th career game with at least 3 TD passes.
• Rosen has reached the 2,000-yard passing mark in just five games this season, the fastest of any Bruin quarterback.
• The win over Colorado was victory #44 for Coach Mora, who is in fifth on the all-time Bruin coaching win list. Coach Mora needs six more Ws to become just the fourth UCLA head man to reach the 50-win mark (Terry Donahue - 151, Bill Spaulding - 72, Red Sanders - 66, Bob Toledo 49).
• The record of the remaining opponents on the Bruin schedule is: 27-12 (69%) ---- Arizona 3-2, Oregon 4-2, Washington 6-0, Utah 4-1, Arizona State 2-3, USC 5-1, Cal 3-3.
• Rosen is on pace to throw for over 5,000 yards which would establish a new conference record (current top mark is 4,719 yards by Jared Goff, Cal in 2015. Rosen is also on track to reach 5,000 yards of total offense and would join Marcus Mariota, Oregon (5,224 yards in 2014) as the only conference players to do so.
• UCLA is averaging 41.4 ppg; only twice in school history has a Bruin team averaged at least 40 points per game (1954-40.8; 1973-42.7).
• 14 different receivers have caught at least two passes this season; nine have at least a 10-yard per catch average and seven different receivers have caught a touchdown pass this season.
• Over his last 12 games, Rosen has thrown for 4,369 yards which would be a school record total and place 8th on the all-time P12 list.
• Five-game passing totals comparison, QB Josh Rosen: 2017/ 159-245-5 int.-.649-17 TD-2,135 yards; 2016/ 113-188-4 int.-.601-8 TD-1,515 yards; 2015/ 102-168-5 int.-.607-9 TD-1,243 yards.
• S Jaleel Wadood leads the team with 30 tackles; LB Kenny Young and S Adarius Pickett are next with 27 stops each; CB Nate Meadors has five pass break ups; Jaelan Phillips has 4.5 TFLs followed by Rick Wade and Chigozie Nnoruka with 4.0 each; Jacob Tuioti-Mariner adds 2.5 sacks.
• Darren Andrews (12-A&M, 10-Memphis) and Caleb Wilson (15 A&M, 11-Stanford) have recorded two double-digit reception games in the same season. No Bruin receiver has done it more than twice in a season. J.J. Stokes is the all-time school leader with three for his career.
• Josh Rosen, with his 372-yard effort vs. Colorado, produced his fifth-straight 300-yard passing game to start the season. At Stanford, he became the first Bruin quarterback to record more than three 300-yard passing games in a row during the same season.
• Rosen tied Tom Ramsey, 1979-82, for fourth on the all-time school list with his 50th career scoring pass against Colorado.
• Rosen (491 v. A&M, 463 at Memphis, 480 at Stanford, 372 v. Colorado) set a new school record with his fourth game of 350-yard passing of this season (old mark - 3 by Cade McNown) ... Rosen's 379 yards of total offense output vs. Colorado was his ninth career game of at least 350 yards of total offense, which is the most in school history.
IN BRIEF
• With its 595-yard performance at Stanford, UCLA set a school mark with its fourth consecutive 500-yard total offense games in a season ... the school record for most 500-yard total offense games overall in a season is 5 --- in 2014, 1998, 1976, 1973.
• Making their first career starts vs. Texas A&M were DL Boss Tagaloa, DB Octavius Spencer, OL Michael Alves, DL Jealan Phillips, DB Darnay Holmes...DL Nick Terry made his first start vs. Hawai'i...LB Keisean Lucier-South, DB Will Lockett, DL Chigozie Nnoruka, LB Krys Barnes made first starts at Memphis. DL Rick Wade made his first start at Stanford.
• LB Kenny Young has 24 tackles in the last two games, with 12-each at Stanford and vs. Colorado.
• Dating back to 1980, Rosen's 88% completion performance vs. Hawai'i (22-25) rates as the second-best by a Bruin QB behind Rick Neuheisel's 25-27 effort (.925) in a 1983 game vs. Washington.
• UCLA is 18-13 in true road games under Coach Mora– '17: 0-2, '16: 1-5, '15: 4-2, '14: 5-0, '13: 4-2, '12: 4-2 and 13-10 in regular season P12 road games ('12: 3-1, '13: 3-2, '14: 4-0, '15: 3-2, '16: 0-4, '17: 0-1).
• UCLA is 30-8 under Coach Mora when scoring first in a game.
• The Bruins are 38-3 under Coach Mora when ahead at the half.
• Darnay Holmes' 30-yard interception return vs. Hawai'i was the 13th defensive score for the Bruins since 2012.
• Starts leaders among current players - OL Scott Quessenberry - 36, DB Jaleel Wadood - 35, LB Kenny Young - 34, QB Josh Rosen 24, OL Kenny Lacy - 21; Quessenberry has the longest starting streak on the team for a position player with 17.
• Punter Stefan Flintoft has placed 8 of his 16 punts inside the opponent's 20-yard line; he boomed a career-long 63-yarder against Texas A&M.
• Since the start of the 2012 season, UCLA has won 23 of 28 games (82%) when winning the turnover battle and owns a record of 21-21 (50.0%) in games when losing or tying the turnover ratio.
• True freshmen played: 2017: 5, 2016: 11, 2015: 10, 2014: 9, 2013: 18, 2012:12 --- True freshmen who have seen action in 2017: DB Darnay Holmes, DL Jaelan Phillips, DB Mo Osling III, DL Martin Andrus, DB Quentin Lake.
• In addition to the true freshmen, players seeing their first career action vs. Texas A&M include: WR Damian Alloway, OL Michael Alves, LB Breland Brandt, OL Jake Burton, LB Mique Juarez, DL Marcus Moore, DL Osa Odighizuwa, DL Chigozie Nnoruka, DB Keyon Riley, LB Leni Toailoa, TE Jordan Wilson. WR Demetric Felton saw his first career action vs. Hawai'i. DB Quentin Lake saw his first action vs. Colorado.
