[Goose]

[quote author=ChicagoTree link=topic=17848.msg209388#msg209388 date=1509406744]
I hope Stanford does face them this year.

Agree.  It might be ugly given our run defense... but it would mean we are in the PAC-12 championship.

BC
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Fortunately, Arizona is not a "power" running team. They are more like Oregon than like USC. They are, however, like Oregon of old, very quick. I think we could match up with them pretty well, or at least OK. While their defense is much improved, it is still pretty small. We pushed them around last year and could probably do so again, given the chance. Against Arizona last year, BTW, Chryst played pretty poorly until later in the game when Arizona went strictly man-to-man in the secondary. After that, he did better.

[Goose]

[quote author=ChicagoTree link=topic=17848.msg209388#msg209388 date=1509406744]
I hope Stanford does face them this year.

Agree.  It might be ugly given our run defense... but it would mean we are in the PAC-12 championship.

BC
[/quote]
Fortunately, Arizona is not a "power" running team. They are more like Oregon than like USC. They are, however, like Oregon of old, very quick. I think we could match up with them pretty well, or at least OK. While their defense is much improved, it is still pretty small. We pushed them around last year and could probably do so again, given the chance. Against Arizona last year, BTW, Chryst played pretty poorly until later in the game when Arizona went strictly man-to-man in the secondary. After that, he did better.