PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Trung Canidate equaled a 43-year-old Arizona school record Saturday night, but neither he nor Wildcats coach Dick Tomey was aware of it until after the fact.

Canidate rushed for 148 yards to extend his school record for consecutive 100-yard games to seven as the Wildcats kept their Rose Bowl hopes alive by beating UCLA 33-7.

Canidate, who carried 25 times and scored on runs of 3 and 19 yards, equaled the Arizona career record of 15 100-yard rushing games set by Art Luppino, who played for the Wildcats from 1953-56.

"I didn't even know about the record until you brought it up," said Canidate, a 5-foot-11, 203-pound senior from Phoenix, Ariz., adding he had never heard of Luppino.

Tomey said he didn't know about the record, either.

"He is a tremendous player, and even a better person," Tomey said of Canidate.

Canidate gained 59 yards in the first half, which ended with Arizona on top 20-7, and surpassed the 100-yard mark early in the third quarter, gaining 77 yards on six carries in an 80-yard, eight-play scoring drive following the second-half kickoff.

"After we got ahead, we wanted to establish our run to take time off the clock," said Canidate, who did a lot more than that.

"It feels good when you know you can just give it to a guy and he'll get 20 yards," Arizona quarterback Keith Smith said.

Smith completed 17 of 29 passes for 281 yards and a touchdown for the Wildcats (6-3, 3-2 Pac-10), who won for the fourth time in five games.

Neither Canidate nor Smith played in the fourth quarter.

The Arizona defense sacked UCLA quarterbacks nine times for 78 yards in playing by far its best game this season. The Wildcats allowed an average of 31.8 points in their previous eight games.

Because of the sack yardage, the Bruins netted a minus-31 yards rushing -- the first time they've had negative rushing yardage in seven years. UCLA was held to a school-record minus-37 yards rushing by Syracuse in 1962. Arizona's school record for rushing defense is minus 33 yards against Stanford in 1992.

"We stopped the run, and that is the key to winning any game," Tomey said. "I won't know the true extent of our defensive effort until I view the films tomorrow, but it must have been very, very good."

The Bruins (3-6, 1-5), who won the Pac-10 championship last year, lost for the third straight time -- their longest losing streak since they dropped six straight in 1994.

UCLA is 3-8 since winning a school-record 20 straight games, a streak that ended last December.

"I know you don't want to hear this, we're going through some big, big growing pains right now," UCLA coach Bob Toledo told reporters afterward. "We're a young football team, we're a beat-up football team.

"It's a difficult time. We're going to stick together, we're going to fight through this thing, we're going to try and get better. We'll get through this thing, I don't know when. We'll get through it."

Outscored 72-7 in its two previous games, UCLA took a 7-0 lead midway through the first quarter when Cory Paus threw a 44-yard touchdown pass to Brad Melsby on a third-and-19 play.

Then, Arizona went to work. Freshman Sean Keel kicked a 31-yard field goal, and the Wildcats went ahead for good on Canidate's first scoring run with 1:20 left in the opening period.

Smith threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Manumaleuna early in the second quarter, and Keel added a 33-yard field goal late in the period to extend Arizona's lead to 20-7.

Canidate capped Arizona's 80-yard drive following the second-half kickoff with his second TD run, and freshman Lance Briggs ran 48 yards for a touchdown on a third-and-1 play with 53 seconds left in the third period to complete the scoring.

The Wildcats rolled up 187 yards in the third quarter to just 26 for UCLA. Both teams substituted liberally during a scoreless final period.

Arizona, beating UCLA at the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1990, entered the game with just one field goal in 11 attempts this season. Keel was successful on both of his attempts -- the first two of his career.

Paus was 13-of-27 for 230 yards with no interceptions.

UCLA blew a scoring chance in the game's opening three minutes, moving to the Arizona 7 before Peter Hansen blocked Chris Griffith's 25-yard field goal attempt.

UCLA's Ryan Roques thwarted a pair of second-quarter Arizona threats with interceptions.