Pac-12 Releases 2012 Football Schedule, Wildcats with Eight Home Games
by UofAlec on Jan 4, 2012 3:12 PM PST
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The Pac-12 released the 2012 football schedule today with "every game on national television for the first time in Conference history."
"The one thing we heard loud and clear from fans across the Conference is they want to see their teams play every week," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said. "Starting in 2012 fans can see all games throughout the country."
- 44 games on either ESPN, FOX, and FX
- 34 on Pac-12 Networks
- 8 Thursday and Friday games on ESPN and FOX
Week 1:
Toledo at Arizona
Week 2:
Oklahoma State at Arizona
Week 3:
South Carolina State at Arizona
Week 4:
Arizona at Oregon
Week 5:
Oregon State at Arizona
Week 6:
Arizona at Stanford
Week 7:
OFF
Week 8:
Washington at Arizona
Week 9:
USC at Arizona
Week 10:
Arizona at UCLA
Week 11:
Colorado at Arizona
Week 12:
Arizona at Utah
Week 13:
Arizona State at Arizona (Friday)
As you noticed, the schedule does return to some normalcy as the ASU/UA match up is the last game of the season and a Friday night I might add. Hopefully one or both of the teams have something to play for going into that game.
The Wildcats, as mentioned above have 8 home games. With that is a great opportunity to makes some noise in the Pac12. Now I don't expect them to go undefeated at home (though I am crossing my fingers) but I do expect a winning record. Add in two wins on the road and one has a 7-5 record. I will definitely take that with a first year head coach in a rebuilding year.
Do you think the schedule favors Arizona? What are your opinions for the 2012 season?
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Eight Home Games
That three of the road games would likely be Ls regardless of venue (Oregon, Stanford, and I really like Utah next season) that makes it even better. Cats have fared well with UCLA in recent years, so I suspect they can pick up that one on the road. OSU and USC are likely losses at home, and U-Dubb is going to be tough. But really, no reason 7-5 isn’t very attainable.
What I’m miffed about is two seasons w/ no Cal or Washington State? I railed on it here; makes no sense to me.
at least we have some legitimate OOC games
I just saw oregons schedule and it looks like a SEC schedule.
Don't sleep on Tennessee Tech!
TTU made the FCS Playoffs! dies of laughter Yeah, that’ll be a 70-0 throttling.
Oregon’s jumps out as being pretty bad, though Fresno hadn’t deteriorated to the level it’s at now when that game was made. Washington State may have the worst. Two FCS teams?
6-6
I am thinking 6-6, though there are a couple of games that can go either way.
W – Toledo, S. Carolina S., Oregon St., @UCLA, Colorado, ASU
L – Oklahoma St., @ Oregon, @ Stanford, Washington, USC, @ Utah
Oregon State and Washington are the two toss ups in my mind. OSU tanked at the end of the season, so we should win, but they seem to have our number. Washington…. I don’t know. We have the bye and the Huskies are coming off of a killer streak of Stanford, @ Oregon and USC. Those should be three L’s for them, so they will either be primed for a win, or hurting so bad we can take them. For now, leave it as a L for the Cats.
Best case/Worst case
I would say between the options of Dreamland (undefeated or 1 loss) and nightmare (lose everything but the games against SCS and Toledo) there are two options:
Best case:
Toledo – W
OKst – revenge upset W
SCS – W
@ Ducks – L
@ OSU – W
@ Stanford – L
UW – W
USC – L
@ UCLA – W
UC – W
@ Utah – W
AssU – W
9-3
Worst case:
Toledo – W
OKst – L
CSC – W
@ Ducks – L
@ OSU – L
@ Stanford – L
UW – W
USC – L
@ UCLA – W
UC – W
@UT – L
Tempe Normal – W
6-6
The Worst case could be worse, but overall I see up ending up in a mix between the two. I am sure 9-3 is unrealistic for a first year coach of a struggling program, but 6-6 feels unlikely as well when looking at the schedule. It should be fun to watch.
Worst Case
I think the end of 2010 and…well, ALL of 2011 has jaded* me a bit, but I tend to think worst case could be closer to another 4-8. Toledo’s a very good team (won 17 games that last two seasons), and if Zona comes out napping, could get tripped out. I doubt it in the opener of the Rich Rod Era: there will be no shortage of enthusiasm on opening week, but you never know.
It’s a different coach, but Mike Riley has had UA’s number, so that is a matter of concern. Not going to be any gimmes (save SCSU).
* jaded or realistic depending on your outlook
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