Arizona Athletics

And the other game that, again, this is to you, dude.

The number 21 ranked Arizona Wildcats that play out way out in Tucson.

And the games are on way too freaking late.

So no one turns them on.

And had a nice little win against West Virginia, but the last couple games, Scott, they've been not good at all.

Three points against Arizona, ten points against BYU.

So what do you make of this team that OSU's going to face Saturday?

Yeah, you know, it wasn't that long ago where I was looking at them as kind of, they were like, the team was kind of going to be the spoiler for a lot of teams today.

Arizona's a three and a half point underdog at Texas Tech.

So you could take the Cats and that would qualify as an upset pick.

BYU favored 16.5 over ASU.

I can't imagine you're going to touch that.

And Drake, we're not gonna bury the lead here.

It's Texas tech gonna get right against Arizona after their loss against Cincinnati.

Who wins this thing?

i don't know yet give me eight minutes to figure it out give me i've got i've got a lot to unpack with this timer has

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yeah and and man here's what is awesome it's effectively and i've kind of i've spoken highly of the arizona defense this week but they don't grade super well their efficiency efficiencies aren't great i think you and i've even talked about how um like their their west virginia game just tanks a lot of their metrics but you Arizona's defense on paper is the movable force.

The Texas Tech offense is like this immovable object and they don't move the football at all.

I don't know how it's going to be interesting to see a defensive unit for Arizona that's been inconsistent and an offensive unit for Texas Tech that's been inconsistent go toe to toe this weekend.

And then you've just got some weird, like, I think Ole Miss Auburn has the potential for a little bit of a letdown offensively.

And then Arizona Texas Tech, like, We know that Fafita has been on a tear recently, and I guess we'll probably just open up with this because, you know, this is something that I wanted to talk about.

But Fafita going against a Texas Tech defense that on paper has not been good this year.

Are we walking into a trap here? with Noah Fafita, who's been, like I said, on a tear, lights out, quality, you know, 25 to 30 points for the past six weeks.

Um, Bachmeier has a good matchup.

Like there, there are so many other options around him that the fact that he does feel a little shaky, but still has 30, 35 point upside.

Um, I think is okay, but I do wonder how much Texas Tech is just going to let the air out of the game and completely just trying to run the ball and keep it away from Arizona.

It's an interesting spot.

We've spent a lot of time with the Big 12, specifically talking about Utah, Texas Tech, BYU.

Is there a world where Arizona is a team we need to spend a little bit more time on? They have one of the bigger games this weekend.

They get Texas Tech after that loss for Texas Tech against Cincinnati.

They played well.

They do have a loss to BYU early in the season.

But is there a world where Arizona could be the representative for the Big 12?

There is, yeah.

And that was unusual for Arizona-BYU being one of the biggest Big 12 games of the year in some ways.

So I don't think you can say that about your defense.

I don't I don't think you can say that you didn't have any of those things on offense the game before against Arizona State.

There's been not a lot of consistency with your offense at times.

There's been good things, but there's not been a lot of consistency.

And so, can you get enough...

This is the test.

Can you get enough good against a very good Arizona team? And can you have that bounce back defensively? What number, score-wise, and as we've seen the last few weeks, it doesn't have to all be points from the offense because you've scored every week the last four weeks from your defense.

What number...

So...

All right, also at noon on ESPN, we've got No. 22 Arizona at No. 13 Texas Tech.

Two of these ranked Big 12 teams we've been talking about all year.

Red Raiders booster Cody Campbell, not happy last week, Bill, when his team lost to Cincinnati.

Yeah, I like that.

So...

Yeah, Arizona 6-1, and their only loss was to BYU on the road.

Both teams are 3-1 in the Big 12, that crowded kind of race to reach the Big 12 championship game.

In the noon slate, you have number 13, Texas Tech.

They host number 22, Arizona.

Number 25, Wisconsin.

They hit the road.