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Arizona football will likely be without its star running back Jacory Croskey-Merritt ahead of the team’s Week 7 clash with BYU. Quali Conley will c0ntinue his streak of solid performances as the Wildcats’ lead ball-carrier. There hasn’t been any movement at this stage regarding Croskey-Merritt’s eligibility, as the NCAA didn’t provide an update on the […]

The Arizona Wildcats (3-2, 1-1 Big 12) head to Utah to take on the No. 14 BYU Cougars (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) Saturday afternoon. This game will continue our college football odds series as we hand out an Arizona-BYU prediction and pick. We will also let you know how to watch the game. Here are […]

It is time to continue our college football odds series with a Texas Tech-Arizona prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Texas Tech-Arizona. The Texas Tech Red Raiders do not play good defense. Fortunately for them, their offense has been able to bail them out multiple times this season. Texas Tech survived Abilene Christian […]

Athletes usually miss games due to injury, but Arizona football tailback Jacory Croskey-Merritt has an unusual situation. The redshirt senior may miss the Week 5 Utah game due to complications from his freshman year at Alabama State. Croskey-Merritt is doubtful to play, via On3’s Pete Nakos. “Arizona has yet to hear back from the NCAA […]

Arizona will battle Utah this weekend at Rice-Ecces Stadium. We’re live from Salt Lake City, sharing our college football odds series while making an Arizona-Utah prediction and pick. Arizona lost 31-7 to 14th-ranked Kansas State last weekend. At halftime, they trailed 14-7, but everything unraveled in the second half, and they could not make a […]

As the Arizona Wildcats prepare for their first Big-12 football matchup since joining the conference, head coach Brent Brennan brought some humor to the pre-game conversations. During a press conference on Thursday, Brennan’s response was witty and telling when asked about the difference between Utah quarterbacks Cam Rising and Isaac Wilson. “A decade of college […]

Arizona football’s first highly-anticipated game in the new-look Big 12 didn’t go according to plan, as Brent Brennan and the 20th-ranked Wildcats got destroyed by No. 14 Kansas State 31-7 in Manhattan. Arizona started the game off with an excellent 14-play, 73-yard touchdown drive that cut nearly seven-and-a-half minutes off the clock and gave Arizona […]

The Arizona football team faces off against Kansas State in a huge top-25 showdown on Friday night. However, this one is technically a “non-conference” game as Brett McMurphy of Action Network reported. Unfortunately for Arizona, they are expected to be without running back Jacory Croskey-Merritt, and the reason as to why is complicated, per Matt […]

College Football Week 3 is upon us and we’re set to bring you another betting prediction and pick for all the action. This next matchup takes place in the Big 12 Conference as the No. 20 Arizona Wildcats (2-0) take on the No. 14 Kansas State Wildcats (2-0) in a can’t-miss showdown. It is time […]

Friday is a huge day for Arizona football. That’s the day the Wildcats play their first conference game as members of the Big 12. Well….not really. Even though Arizona and Kansas State are both members of the same conference, this game doesn’t count toward the conference standings. That’s because when this contest was scheduled, Arizona […]

Week 1 is prime time for overreactions, and there isn’t anything better to overreact to in college football than a Heisman Trophy list. Plenty of top Heisman contenders had big-time performances against top teams, and some fresh new names threw their names into the race in the season’s first week. Let’s check on five guys […]

The Arizona Wildcats began a new era of football on Saturday night in Tucson: the Brent Brennan era. Arizona welcomed the New Mexico Lobos to Arizona Stadium, and Brennan got to see the connection between Noah Fifita and Tetairoa McMillan. Going into Saturday’s game, the Wildcats were ranked No. 21 to start the 2024 season after […]

It is time to continue our college football odds series with a New Mexico-Arizona prediction and pick. Find out how to watch New Mexico-Arizona. Bronco Mendenhall made a name for himself in the college football coaching world in the Mountain West Conference when he coached at BYU over a decade ago. Mendenhall brought BYU up […]

Deep in the heart of the Sonoran Desert is a football team chomping at the bit to experience another magical season like the one from last fall. With college football on the horizon, it is about time to take a look at our college football odds series where our Arizona over/under win total prediction and […]

The Arizona football program is on a new journey in 2024. The team is now competing in the Big 12 conference, after years in the Pac-12. The Wildcats are considered one of the best teams in their new league. Armed with a preseason no. 21 ranking from the Associated Press college football poll, the Wildcats […]

The Arizona football program has a big season ahead of them in 2024, with new head coach Brent Brennan replacing Jedd Fisch, and a new set of opponents in the Big 12 replacing those that the Wildcats had been playing in the Pac-12, and before that, the Pac-10, since 1978. But at two of the […]

If there’s one thing that Arizona football fans haven’t seen a lot of over the last several years, it’s winning. But that changed last season when the Wildcats came away with a 10-3 record, their best in a decade. The question is, can the team carry that success over into their new conference home in […]

There was a time not so long ago when Arizona football fans likely dreaded seeing the upcoming season’s schedule. From 2018 until 2022, the Wildcats didn’t record a single winning season and went 15-38. Then last year happened. Arizona football became the biggest surprise in college football last year. Winning just five games the year […]

The Pac-12 was one of the most exciting brands of football to watch last season, and one reason why was the surprising resurgence of the Arizona football program. For a team that had won no more than six games over the previous two seasons, the Wildcats pulled off a 10-3 record last year, including their […]

Technically speaking, the official date for the Big 12 to open their doors to newcomers Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Arizona State isn’t until August 2. However, other conferences have already officially welcomed their new teams—unless they were from the Pac-12—back on July 1 as part of conference realignment. Regardless, a new era of college football […]

Though maybe not the powerhouse school like some of the rest, the Arizona Wildcats football program still has a rich history filled with memorable moments, notable victories, and standout players who have made their mark not just on the program but college football itself. Before Arizona football kicks off for the 2024 season, now in […]

Former Arizona football and Washington State football quarterback Jayden de Laura declared for the 2024 NFL Draft on Thursday, the 22-year-old announced on his X account. After withdrawing his transfer to Texas State, de Laura will turn pro and go for his shot to play in the NFL. In a lengthy statement, de Laura thanked […]

A drastic year of change continues for the Arizona Wildcats, as the university looks to hire Desireé Reed-Francois to be its new athletic director, per ESPN’s Pete Thamel. The former Missouri AD is expected to lead the school during one of its most crucial eras yet. Arizona is in the midst of a financial crisis […]

The Reese’s Senior Bowl has been a big week for NFL Draft evaluators to get a first-hand look at some of the top players. On Thursday, Arizona wide receiver Jacob Cowin suffered an injury and had to be carted off the field, per Thor Nystrom. ‘Arizona WR Jacob Cowing is being carted to the tunnels […]

Arizona football is finalizing its coaching staff as Brent Brennan made an impressive hire on Thursday. The Wildcats have been in need of a new offensive coordinator and it sounds like they found one in former Syracuse head coach, Dino Babers. Babers will not only serve as the offensive coordinator, but he will also be […]

Dave Heeke is out as athletic director of the Arizona Wildcats, the school announced on Monday. It is another big news coming out of Tucson in the Arizona football offseason, as it comes on the heels of the Wildcats finding a successor to Jedd Fisch to coach the program in the form of Brent Brennan. […]

Washington football is rebuilding their roster for the 2024 season, and just got a good piece of news. The Huskies are landing quarterback Demond Williams Jr. from the transfer portal, per On3. Williams is expected to compete to replace graduating quarterback Michael Penix Jr. for Washington. Williams is transferring to Washington from Arizona. The quarterback […]

Washington football now heads into a new era behind head coach Jedd Fisch. The Huskies have been a winning program for the past few years with Kalen DeBoer leaving Seattle garnering a 25-3 record. Fisch is filling the shoes of a coach who just took the Washington football team to the National Champion, competing for […]

With the departure of Kalen DeBoer from the Washington football program, the Huskies were left to find a coach who could continue building the program and keep the high standards that had been constructed. They landed on Arizona’s Jedd Fisch, who had been with the Wildcats for three seasons. Fisch spoke on his abrupt departure […]

Quarterback Noah Fifita and wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan are reportedly staying with the Arizona football program after Brent Brennan was hired to replace head coach Jedd Fisch, who left for the Washington job, according to Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports. Wide receiver coach Kevin Cummings is reportedly a key to keeping Noah Fifita and Tetairoa […]

With Jedd Fisch leaving the Arizona football program to go to Washington following Kalen DeBoer’s departure for Alabama, the Wildcats job suddenly became open. However, it didn’t take too long to fill. Late Monday night, rumors swirled that San Jose State head coach Brent Brennan had emerged as the top target. Then, on Tuesday, it […]

The college football coaching shakeup has just gotten started. It all started with Nick Saban’s departure which meant that Kalen DeBoer would head to the Alabama football program. It left a vacancy that was filled by Jedd Fisch as he headed to coach the Washington football team. Now, the Arizona football squad is looking for […]

Arizona football is still processing the news that Jedd Fish will no longer be their head coach after he abruptly made the leap to Washington over the weekend. The excitement and confidence that pervaded Tuscon after a momentous 10-3 season has quickly been displaced by heartbreak and uncertainty. But life goes on. A new, strong […]

As if it wasn’t bad enough to see their head coach leave for a longtime conference rival, Arizona football fans must now prepare to also bid farewell to a key player. Running back Jonah Coleman is entering the transfer portal, according to Hayes Fawcett of On3.com. “I love you Tucson forever,” Coleman posted on X […]

Kalen DeBoer recently took the head coaching job in Alabama to replace Nick Saban. As a result, Washington football must now find a new head coach itself. Rumors have linked numerous names to the Huskies’ program, but it sounds like Arizona’s Jedd Fisch is the front-runner. Fisch has reportedly become the top target for Washington […]

One of the more surprising, yet interesting matchups during the college football bowl season is that of the Valero Alamo Bowl between No. 14 Arizona and No. 12 Oklahoma in the San Antonio Alamodome. Being that this will be a matchup between two top-15 opponents, it will be the highest-ranked game outside of the College […]

The Arizona Wildcats take on the Oklahoma Sooners. Check out our Alamo Bowl odds for our Arizona Oklahoma prediction and pick. Find how to watch Arizona Oklahoma. This might be the best non-playoff matchup in all of the bowl games. Oklahoma went 10-2 this season, Arizona 9-3. The Alamo Bowl historically has been one of […]

In the most anticipated bowl game to date this season, Arizona will take on Oklahoma in the Valero Alamo Bowl. It will be only the second bowl game so far this season to feature two ranked teams, and it will be the game that kicks off the most exciting bowl games to come. In this […]

Arizona football quarterback Jayden de Laura announced that he will be entering the transfer portal and is seeking an opportunity to start in his final year of college. Jayden de Laura posted a lengthy statement on the decision to transfer for the second time in his college career. “On Friday, college football made a decision […]