CORVALLIS, Ore. — Russian chess grandmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower must never have faced a 16-point deficit on the road in the Pac-10 against a team clad in orange-and-black on Halloween, of all days.

Tartakower must never have watched an offense continually sputter until finding itself 50 minutes into a 60-minute football game.

Tartakower must never have had to rely on a redshirt freshman quarterback and a pieced-together offensive line and sophomore receivers.

So, when he uttered that etched-in-time quote — “Moral victories do not count” — he must not have been staring down the tail end of a five-game losing streak.

But down 19-3 and with an offense that had mustered 164 yards through three quarters, UCLA rallied to tie Saturday's matchup with Oregon State. But the Bruins ultimately lost to the Beavers 26-19, after Beaver wideout James Rodgers scored on a reverse with 44 seconds remaining.

If there was ever a time for a moral victory, this was it.

Or not.

“I don't even know what the hell that is,” UCLA senior linebacker Reggie Carter said. “That don't mean nothing. Ain't no such things as moral victories. There's victories and there's losses. We just took a loss.”

The Bruins were in no mood to pat themselves on the back after falling to 0-5 in Pac-10 Conference play for the first time since 1994.

Perhaps for good reason: UCLA allowed more than 450 yards for the third consecutive game, watching the Rodgers brothers, Jacquizz and James, dance around tackles.

Jacquizz Rodgers, the younger brother who won Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year honors as a freshman last season, had 112 yards rushing and 92 yards receiving.

James Rodgers, the older brother who leads the conference in receiving, had 10 catches for 106 yards and 28 yards rushing.

It was his touchdown with under a minute — after UCLA tied the game on a Kevin Prince-to-Taylor Embree 7-yard score and ensuing Prince-to-Johnathan Franklin 2-point conversion — that spelled disaster for UCLA.

James Rodgers took the handoff from QB Sean Canfield and followed a cavalry of blockers, running almost untouched into the endzone.

“They just kept going up front and the receivers did great blocking which allowed us to keep driving,” James Rodgers said.

The Bruins were only in position to suffer a soul-crushing loss after the late-game heroics by Prince, who showed glimpses of confidence early in the fourth quarter, when the UCLA offense scored for the first time in more than nine quarters.

Prince appeared harried, tentative and almost scared for three quarters. Prince had 125 yards going into the fourth quarter, willing to settle for short gains rather than test the defense.

Finally he threw caution to the wind and the ball into it, connecting on 9-of-13 passes for 198 yards in the quarter, with touchdown passes to Embree and Nelson Rosario, on a 58-yard score that pulled UCLA within eight points.

“I wouldn't say we were scared, but some people are just hoping for someone to make a play instead of us wanting to make a play,” Rosario said. “Then we realize it's time that we have to, and that's when stuff starts clicking. It's all a mindset. We have to go out there and tell ourselves that we have to make this play, and it will come.”