Arizona Football Schedule 2016: 5 Keys For The Wildcats

How does the Arizona Wildcat football schedule look going into the 2016 season?

2016 Arizona Wildcats Football Schedule

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2016 Arizona Wildcats

Sept. 3 BYU (in Glendale)
Sept. 10 Grambling State
Sept. 17 Hawaii
Sept. 24 Washington
Oct. 1 at UCLA
Oct. 8 at Utah
Oct. 15 USC
Oct. 22 OPEN DATE
Oct. 29 Stanford
Nov. 5 at Washington State
Nov. 12 Colorado
Nov. 19 at Oregon State
Nov. 25 Arizona State

Non-Conference Games BYU, Grambling State, Hawaii

Games vs. the North Washington, Stanford, at Washington State, at Oregon State

5 Keys to the Schedule

– The Wildcats don’t have to go on the road for any of the non-conference games – but it would’ve been nice to have made the trip to Hawaii. The BYU game is in Glendale – win that, and go 3-0 before going into the Pac-12 world.

– The two big games against the South come early on, going to UCLA on October 1st and USC on the 15th. Getting at least a split of those two games and beating Utah makes it an interesting second half of the year.

– The Wildcats don’t have to play Oregon, but they deal with Stanford – at least that’s at home. Going to Washington State isn’t going to be east on November 5th, but hosting Washington and facing Oregon State isn’t that bad.

– Outside of back-to-back dates at UCLA and Utah, Arizona doesn’t play two road games in a row.

– WATCH OUT FOR … the road trip to Oregon State. Arizona is going to be the better team, but it’s a late November game coming before the Arizona State rivalry game. The Wildcats have to be focused.

2017 Non-Conference Games Houston, at UTEP