The Arizona Wildcats finish their 2014 season with a 10-3 record and after a 51-13 loss to the Oregon Ducks in the Pac-12 Championship game close the year 10th in the College Football Playoff.
Rich Rodriguez's team finished 11th in the AP Poll and 12th in the Coaches Poll, but the CFP committee keeping UA in the top-10 certainly is good news for the upcoming bowl announcements. The College Football Playoff committee ranked the football playoff group of four and has yet to announce the remaining teams in the top-25.
Arizona earned votes as high as seventh in the coaches poll and as low as 17 (Les Miles, Steve Spurrier and Bret Bielema, thethree coaches who voted the Wildcats 17th, were from the SEC).
The bowl selections will begin rolling out Sunday afternoon with Arizona hoping it can garner interest from the Fiesta Bowl.
If the Wildcats aren't selected to attend the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz., then it's possible they could end up in the Cotton Bowl or Alamo Bowl. Greg Byrne said he didn't have an idea where Arizona would land but he wasn't pushing for any one over the other, via Twitter.
All @AZATHLETICS fans. At this point I don't know where we will end up for our bowl game but I think we have a shot w/ the @FiestaBowl.
— Greg Byrne (@Greg_Byrne) December 7, 2014
If we end up in @valeroalamobowl, @HolidayBowlGame, @FosterFarmsBowl, @HyundaiSunBowl we need you there too. #BearDown
— Greg Byrne (@Greg_Byrne) December 7, 2014
College football rankings
Playoff | AP | Coaches | Massey computer composite | |
1 | Alabama | Alabama | Alabama | Alabama |
2 | Oregon | Florida State | Florida State | Oregon |
3 | Florida State | Oregon | Oregon | TCU |
4 | Ohio State | Baylor | Ohio State | Ohio State |
5 | Baylor | Ohio State | Baylor | Florida State |
6 | TCU | TCU | TCU | Baylor |
7 | Mississippi State | Michigan State | Michigan State | Ole Miss |
8 | Michigan State | Mississippi State | Mississippi State | Mississippi State |
9 | Ole Miss | Ole Miss | Georgia Tech | Michigan State |
10 | Arizona | Georgia Tech | Kansas State | Georgia |
11 | Kansas State | Kansas State | Arizona | Auburn |
12 | Georgia Tech | Arizona | Ole Miss | Kansas State |
13 | Georgia | Georgia | Georgia | Georgia Tech |
14 | UCLA | UCLA | Missouri | UCLA |
15 | Arizona State | Arizona State | UCLA | Wisconsin |
16 | Missouri | Missouri | Arizona State | Missouri |
17 | Clemson | Wisconsin | Wisconsin | Arizona |
18 | Wisconsin | Clemson | Clemson | LSU |
19 | Auburn | Auburn | Auburn | Oklahoma |
20 | Boise State | Louisville | Louisville | Clemson |
21 | Louisville | Boise State | Boise State | Arizona State |
22 | Utah | LSU | Nebraska | Boise State |
23 | LSU | Utah | LSU | USC |
24 | USC | USC | Oklahoma | Louisville |
25 | Minnesota | Nebraska | Utah | Nebraska |