SEATTLE -- Corey Dillon ran for 145 yards and tied a school record with five rushing touchdowns as No. 25 Washington scored the first 28 points and cruised to a 41-21 victory over UCLA in a Pac-10 Conference matchup.

Dillon, who had 33 carries, scored the first four touchdowns of the game, helping the Huskies (4-2, 3-1 Pac-10) build a 28-0 halftime lead. He scored again on a one-yard run with 4:31 left in the third quarter to tie Hugh McElhenny's school record for rushing touchdowns in a game. McElhenny set the mark in 1950 against Washington State.

"This was a very nice way to get the monkey off your back," Washington coach Jim Lambright said, referring to last week's 54-20 loss at Notre Dame. "We played UCLA extremely hard. The team deserves to be complimented tremendously and given all the credit in the world for bouncing back that way. That was a terribly affecting loss to come off and we did a great job today of going out and showing that we can control the line of scrimmage."

Cade McNown passed for 218 yards and Skip Hicks had a pair of short touchdown runs for UCLA (2-4, 1-2), which has given up 83 points in its last two games, both losses.

"They had a little over 300 yards, but they didn't have to go very far," UCLA coach Bob Toledo said. "They pounded us pretty good. We didn't do a very good job of tackling, we missed a lot of tackles. That was disappointing. If there's a weakness on our football team, it's that we don't have a lot of people (on the defensive line). We don't have a lot of size."

Washington limited the Bruins to 12 yards on the ground and posted its third straight win in the series, which is tied 27-27-2. Skip Hicks, who entered as the Pac-10's leading rusher, was held to eight yards on seven carries.

Dillon's two-yard touchdown with 11:50 left in the first quarter capped a 34-yard drive and put the Huskies ahead to stay. He scored from one yard out just under three minutes into the second quarter at the end of an 89-yard drive.

Hicks fumbled on the next play from scrimmage and safety Tony Parrish recovered to set up Dillon's third score, an 11-yard dash that made it 21-0. Dillon found the end zone again with 7:17 to go, giving Washington a 28-point halftime cushion.

"That was huge," Toledo said of Hicks' fumble, "because on the next play they scored a touchdown. He's a good runner and he's a great kid, but you can't put the ball on the turf. I didn't play him for a long time, but I put him in the second half because I don't want to demoralize the kid completely. He's trying hard, he's just fumbling the ball."

UCLA took the second-half kickoff and moved 80 yards, with McNown scoring on a one-yard run to cut the margin to 28-7.

But the Huskies answered with a 47-yard drive, capped by Dillon's record-tying touchdown.

"I was ready to come back in, if necessary," Dillon said of a possible sixth TD. "I had a little stinger and put a little ice on it and I was ready to go. If they wanted me to go back in there, then that's what I was going to do."

Hicks and Steve Buck sandwiched short scoring runs around Mike Reed's one-yard TD in the fourth quarter.