Arizona Wildcats football factoids

Posted on Sep 14, 2009 by Mike Hlas.

Stuff to know about the Arizona Wildcats football team:

Arizona has one winning season this decade. That was last year’s 8-5 team.

Arizona is the only Pac-10 member to have never played in a Rose Bowl. It has been in the league since 1978.

Arizona is the last team to beat BYU.

Arizona is 6-5 all-time vs. Iowa, 14-22 vs. the Big Ten. The last time it went on the road to play a Big Ten team, it lost 59-7 at Purdue.

Saturday’s game at Iowa is the first of three straight on the road for Arizona. It doesn’t play another home game until Oct. 17.

Arizona has lost seven straight games to USC by an average of 21 points. Last year, however, the Trojans won by just 17-10.

The largest crowd the Wildcats played before last year was 65,434, at UCLA in Pasadena, where it won, 31-10.

Arizona lost a road nonconference game in each of the previous four seasons. It fell at New Mexico last season.

Arizona’s starting running back is Nicolas Grigsby. He is not a Dickens character, he merely sounds like one.

In the Does This Sound Familiar, Iowa Fans Dept., four of Arizona’s five losses last year were by eight points or less.

Arizona head coach Mike Stoops and defensive coordinator Mark Stoops — former Iowa players — have known the high life in college football. One or the other was an assistant coach in a national-title game for five straight years before the two went to Tucson.