Arizona’s home sweep of the Los Angeles schools, especially the victory over then-No. 5 UCLA, was needed. Losers of two of their previous three games, with neither defeat being all that close, the Wildcats had slid in the conference standings, fell in the rankings and had the appearance of a team that was heading in the wrong direction.
Then the offense came alive against the Trojans and the defense locked the Bruins down. Arizona moved up to sixth in the country, the Pac-12 title is within reach and the Wildcats are once again among the feared.