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Arizona Football: 2016 Preseason Bowl Media Projections for the Cats

By Kevin Jiang

Dec 19, 2015; Albuquerque, NM, USA; Arizona Wildcats head coach Rich Rodriguez looks on prior to the game against the New Mexico Lobos in the 2015 New Mexico Bowl at University Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 19, 2015; Albuquerque, NM, USA; Arizona Wildcats head coach Rich Rodriguez looks on prior to the game against the New Mexico Lobos in the 2015 New Mexico Bowl at University Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports /
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Nov 28, 2014; Tucson, AZ, USA; Arizona football Wildcats head coach Rich Rodriguez and Arizona State Sun Devils head coach Todd Graham shake hands after the fourth quarter of the territorial cup at Arizona Stadium. The Wildcats won 42-35. Mandatory Credit: Casey Sapio-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 28, 2014; Tucson, AZ, USA; Arizona football Wildcats head coach Rich Rodriguez and Arizona State Sun Devils head coach Todd Graham shake hands after the fourth quarter of the territorial cup at Arizona Stadium. The Wildcats won 42-35. Mandatory Credit: Casey Sapio-USA TODAY Sports /

No Bowl… Again.

Where: Rich Rod’s Couch—Tucson, AZ

When: All-Bowl Season

This time around, Bill Bender from the Sporting News has excluded Arizona while picking just seven Pac-12 teams to make it to bowl season.

The main difference with the previous bowl exclusion is that Bender does not have either Arizona school making a bowl. This gives Rich Rod and Todd Graham a whole month to rethink what likely would have been a disappointing season.

The projection would probably mean that the Territorial Cup would serve as a pride/grudge match with little on the line, which would be a massive regression of what the game has recently come to mean. That said if the winner of the Territorial Cup ends up making it into a Bowl, then it would make the game that much more important.

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