A year ago at this time, Arizona was coming off a huge season-opening win at San Diego State that provided the first clue that Jedd Fisch’s rebuild might actually work. Then the Wildcats returned to reality with a deflating 39-17 home loss to Mississippi State, showing how much work still needed to be done to get the program back to respectability.
“We had our worst game against them a year ago,” Fisch said Thursday. “We need to be much better offensively.”
Arizona is playing at an SEC school for the first time since 2004, when it was bludgeoned 45-3 at LSU in a game that saw Willie Tuitama get knocked all over the place.