First look: No. 14 Arizona Wildcats

No. 25 UCLA Bruins (6-2, 3-2) vs. No. 14 Arizona Wildcats (6-1, 4-1)
Kickoff: Saturday, Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m., Rose Bowl
TV: ESPN (Mark Jones, Rod Gilmore, Jessica Mendoza)
Radio: AM 570 (Chris Roberts, Matt Stevens, Wayne Cook)

Coach: After lasting just three seasons at Michigan with a 15-22 record, Rich Rodriguez has found Arizona to be a friendler home for his spread offense.

Despite starting a different quarterback each season, the 51-year-old has guided the Wildcats to back-to-back 8-5 seasons and made them one of the country’s top-10 offenses twice in three years. Now, he has them on the cusp of their best campaign in over a decade. After upsetting then-No. 2 Oregon earlier this month, they went from unranked to No. 10 in the country — the largest jump by any team since the Associated Press poll expanded to a top 25.

Arizona hasn’t appeared in a final AP poll since 1998, when its 12-1 run made it the No. 4 team in the country.

Key players:

QB Anu Solomon, RFr., 6-2, 205 — 200/316, 2,430 yards, 20 TD, 4 INT
– Didn’t win the quarterback competition until late August, but he’s been entrusted to throw 45.1 passes per game. Third in the Pac-12 in yards per game (347.1), but eighth in completion percentage (63.3).

RB Nick Wilson, Fr., 5-10, 199 — 100 carries, 592 yards, 7 TD, 10 catches, 1 rec TD
– He’s splitting the workload with redshirt senior Terris Jones-Grigsby (70 carries, 406 yards), but Wilson is the one responsible for seven of the team’s 13 rushing touchdowns.

WR Cayleb Jones, RSo., 6-3, 215 — 46 catches, 670 yards, 7 TD
– Senior Austin Hill was the presumptive star after returning from his ACL tear, but Jones has eclipsed the former 1,000-yard receiver as the Wildcats’ No. 1 target.

LB Scooby Wright III, So., 6-1, 246 — 78 tackles, 14 tackles for loss, 9 sacks, 5 forced fumbles
– Tied for the national lead in forced fumbles, Wright made his biggest play of the year when he stripped Marcus Mariota to clinch Arizona’s upset of Oregon.

S Jared Tevis, Sr., 5-11, 202 — 64 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, 1 sack, 1 interception
– With 22 starts entering this season, the former walk-on is a crucial part of the Wildcats’ 3-3-5 scheme.

Scouting report: The Wildcats are the most pass-happy opponent left on UCLA’s schedule, throwing on 53.1 percent of their offensive snaps. In the Pac-12, they only rank behind Washington State (77.2%), Colorado (55.3%) and Cal (54.5%). … Arizona is one of two Pac-12 teams with two tailbacks averaging double-digit carries. Wilson and Jones-Grigsby average 16.7 and 14.0 per game, respectively. (Oregon State’s Terron Ward and Storm Woods average 13.6 and 11.3.) … UofA is 10th in the conference in opposing yards per pass attempt (7.6), but fourth in opposing yards per run (3.88) … The Wildcats have played in five games this season decided by a touchdown or less, winning four of them. “We’re not going to be a dominant team where we can get out to big leads,” Rodriguez said. “The teams we play are too good. Even though we’ve got some good players, we’re not to that level.”

Line: UCLA is a six-point favorite.