3. Utah at Arizona
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ATS PICK Utah
Arizona was the call last week in this No. 3 spot – it was written up before Cal’s COVID outbreak.
Cal was missing 24 players and it was still 3-3 late in the game before the Wildcats pulled out a 10-3 victory – the first in the Jedd Fisch era.
There’s a reason that was such a fight – Arizona is extremely banged up.
Everyone is hurting this time of year, but the Wildcats didn’t have a whole lot of quality depth to begin with and now they’re battling hard to get by. Now they’re playing the – yeah, I’m going there – best team in the Pac-12, at least at the moment.
Overall, the Arizona run defense hasn’t been all that bad and held up well against everyone except UCLA and USC. That’s about to change in a big, big way against 221-pound Tavion Thomas and a Utah ground attack that ran over UCLA for close to 300 yards and just blasted Stanford for 441.
The offensive line has found its groove at the right time.
Throw in Arizona currently running dead last in the nation in turnover margin, and this isn’t going to be pretty.