No. 9 UCLA (3-0) travels to the desert to face No. 16 Arizona (3-0) in a battle of unbeaten Pac-12 teams. Well, a UCLA loss will once again make Oregon the highest ranked team in the Pac-12 – and if the Ducks do beat Utah – it’s unlikely Arizona would jump the Ducks in the polls. And just increasing Arizona’s chances, UCLA star LB Myles Jack was just ruled out for for the rest of the season with a knee injury – UCLA’s third defensive starter to go down for the season in the last three weeks. The Bruins might have a tough time putting up points against Arizona’s scoring defense, which gives up 21.7 points per game. “He’s been pretty sharp with his decisions”, said Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez. The Wildcats have never had a run of four seasons with a victory over a top-10 team in each year, though.
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The Beavers’ only matchups with the Washington schools will come in the Evergreen State, when Oregon State heads north for the first weekend in February.
Will UCLA get another boost in the national rankings by winning their Pac-12 opener?
On NFL Sunday, the Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys clash at 10 a.m. on Fox (5) in the league’s only showdown of 2-0 teams, and the San Diego Chargers and Minnesota Vikings meet in the other early game on CBS (8). After trailing BYU on 80 percent of their plays, the Bruins are now 46th in Game Control. He showed he could be rattled and confused a bit, as he threw three first-half interceptions against BYU last week. On the ground, Jerrard Randall rushed for 149 yards and two touchdowns in three attempts while Nick Wilson added 143 yards and two touchdowns in 19 carries. Saturday’s total is now set at 64 points. Arizona can score with the best of them and UCLA is coming off a home match against BYU it probably should have lost.
Down 20-10 to BYU at home in the fourth quarter, it looked like UCLA could be on its way to its first loss of the season. And with Stanford’s win at USC on Saturday, it has won four of its last five trips to the Coliseum. There are only two games between ranked teams, and both of them will basically be going on at the same time. Sophomore running back Leonard Fournette played a great game this week, and cemented his Heisman campaign rushing for 228 yards and three touchdowns.
ESPN’s popular College GameDay program will be making its second appearance in Tucson, having last done so in November 2009 in a game against Oregon.
By contrast, Solomon has been one of the best Power 5 quarterbacks when throwing from outside the pocket.
The Bruins had an impressive comeback win last week against No. 22 BYU.
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“Paul’s looking a lot more explosive”, sophomore running back Nate Starks said. The Sun Devils sophomore had a huge game against New Mexico last week, catching four passes for 151 yards while rushing for 104 yards.
