TUCSON, Ariz. -- There will be no more jokes.
Linebacker Myles Jack, UCLA's do-everything freshman, kept telling teammates that he was a running back at Bellevue (Wash.) High.
"They would make jokes, tell me, 'Yeah, that was in high school, you can't do that here,' " Jack said.
Oh yes he can. That was clear by the time Jack was done with a night of iron-man football Saturday in the Bruins' 31-26 victory over Arizona.
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There was hardly a lack of star power on the field at Arizona Stadium.
On one side was UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley, who carried the Bruins at times with no little amount of swagger. On the other side was Ka'Deem Carey, Arizona's relentless running back who pushed a second-half rally.
But anyone calling them the best players on the field Saturday didn't know Jack.
That the Bruins were able to exhale and leave Tucson with a victory had a lot to do with Jack. It wasn't enough to use him to chase down Carey. UCLA coaches unveiled him as a running back in a special package guaranteed to keep Pac-12 defensive coordinators up late at night.
Jack had 120 yards in six carries, including a 66-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter that gave UCLA a 34-19 lead. UCLA's defense held off Carey and Arizona quarterback B.J. Denker from there. It gave the Bruins a lynchpin victory in their effort to win the Pac-12 South for the third consecutive season.
The Bruins (7-2 overall, 4-2 in Pac-12) are tied with USC for second in the South Division, a game behind Arizona State.
It took a village. Jack played the role of mayor.
"We keep getting him in shape so he can go both ways, and we're talking Heisman Trophy in a couple years," linebacker Jordan Zumwalt said.
There were other headliners.
Carey gained 149 yards rushing, his 12th consecutive 100-yard game.
Denker threw two fourth-quarter touchdown passes and pestered the Bruins until Ishmael Adams intercepted a pass to clinch the victory with two minutes left.
Hundley threw for 227 yards and two touchdowns. His serpentine 15-yard touchdown run, where he ran through two would-be tacklers, was the highlight of the game ... until Jack took the field on offense.
"We've always talked about it," Coach Jim Mora said. "It is just a matter of how much do you give young players to do? At what point do they become saturated and lose their effectiveness?"
Those are questions that still have to answered.
Jack was brought in during a second-quarter drive, flanked by defensive end Keenan Graham and Zumwalt in an inverted Wishbone formation. He went 29 yards on a third-and-one play.
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