Arizona Answers Some Questions With Win Over Washington

Correspondent Written on October 06, 2008

This weekend our Arizona Wildcats played host to the Jake Locker-less Washington Huskies. To be honest, I had mixed feelings going into this game because of the performances of both squads so far this season.

First off, I didn’t want to get too excited about our Cats yet, but coming off a 31-10 win over UCLA didn’t humble my spirits any. This season Arizona is averaging 43.6 points per game while only allowing 13.6 a game. Statistics should always be taken at face value, but after a 48-14 win over the Huskies, it looks like they are pretty spot-on.

As far as preparing for the Huskies, I had a couple of lingering questions that I knew I would have to wait for game time to have answered. The first was if Washington was as bad as they seemed or if it was their schedule that is just that ridiculous.

Washington opened with No. 21 Oregon, followed by No. 15 BYU, No. 3 Oklahoma, Stanford, and finally our Cats. They came out of that stretch 0-5, and maybe they deserve to be at the bottom of the Pac.

Now that they have lost their leading passer, rusher, and really the face of their squad in Locker, I don’t think that we will ever find out if they are better than they look on paper.

The second question in all our minds was, how good is Arizona this year? We know now that we are one stumble (loss to New Mexico) from being close to a Top 25 ranking and that we are in fact a really good squad. Good is relative though, and no, we are not of the same caliber as a lot of nationally ranked programs.

That being said, the way the Pac looks this year, I don’t think it is unrealistic to think that we might actually have a legitimate shot at the Rose Bowl.

Quick stats from this weekend:

QB: Tuitama: 17/21 81 percent 193 Yds 3 TD 0 INT

RB: Grigsby 14 Car 113 Yds 1 TD

TE: Gronkowski 5 Rec 109 Yds 3 TD

Next week the Cats will be heading west to take on Stanford followed by a home game against Cal. As far as I am concerned, we have two more weeks before we can get ahead of ourselves and start planning our Bowl Game road trip possibilities.

I’ll have a preview for the Stanford game up soon.

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written on October 06, 2008 Game Recap