The Wildcats already have surpassed expectations in Year 2 under Jedd Fisch; a win over the Sun Devils would make this season an undeniable triumph.
Every Arizona fan remembers the last time the Wildcats won it. They literally ran Arizona State out of Tucson. Arizona rushed for a school-record 511 yards in a 56-35 victory. The Wildcats didn’t throw a pass in the second half of that 2016 matchup.
Context means so much when sizing up a program’s success or failure. Which brings us to the current-day Cats. But some would tell you that the gap between 5-7 and 4-8 – when the differentiator is the Territorial Cup – is as wide as the Grand Canyon. It means that much. After the Wildcats went 1-11 in Fisch’s first season — Year Zero, as he subsequently called it — the oddsmakers set a low bar for the follow-up. Their initial projected win total, for betting purposes, was 2.5. It eventually settled at three.
A 4-8 record would be only win greater than the aforementioned 3-9 of 2016, which we deemed a failure. But after 70-7, after 1-11, after a 20-game skid that only ended last November, it’d have to be viewed as a success. Right? But if we had told that the Cats would finish 4-8 — with the lone win coming over the Sun Devils — well, who could say no to that?
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