This season hinges on Stanford...

haie said:

Dennis_DeYoung said:

You guys are such fucking doogs for thinking we win rather easily at Arizona. Name the last time we won a game as an undefeated on the road against a mid-tier opponent!

2009 - L at Stanford (undefeated in the Pac, ranked in the top 25)
2010 - L at BYU to start the season
2011 - L at Nebraska (then as soon as we got some momentum back, L at Stanford; also Ls at Oregon and Oregon State)
2012 - beat Stanford at home, then road L to Oregon and drubbing at Tuscon (honorable mention road L at WSU after 4 straight Ws)
2013 - Start undefeated against scrubs, road Ls to Oregon, Arizona State and UCLA extinguished the fire).
2014 - we gave up at home to Stanford then Ls on the road to Oregon and Zona.
2015 - L at Boise. Pete didn't even want to win.

In fact here's our record on the road as an undefeated team for the past 10 years:

2-10. Only wins against Syracuse and a fucking horrible Hawai'i team... by one point.

The thing that feels different about this year is that *IF* we don't stub our toe against a mid tier opponent, we will enter that Furd game ranked like 15th and beating them at home would be a real arrival statement.

That is, until we lose at Oregon, Utah, drop one to both USC and ASU at home, then bone the Apple Cup because half of our OL ACL'ed out.

Arizona is so fucking bad this year that Dick Rod's players won't even have to quit on him this time. More likely doog scenario is that people will be shitting their pants because it was a convincing win after that desolating string of road games you lined up. Then we'll cough up 3-5 turnovers against Stanford and call it a season.