Khalil Tate won Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week for the fourth week in a row on Homecoming. It’s never been done before.
The day after Arizona Football has nationally ranked anywhere between 18 and 23 depending on the poll, Khalil Tate won Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week for the fourth week in a row. It’s never been done before. Tate’s 82-yard run was the longest rush by a quarterback in school history.
Postgame locker room speeches after a win like this are fantastic, and Rich Rod didn’t disappoint. “The more you win, the more is at stake, right? We are going to enjoy this for 24 hours, you’ve made yourself relevant, the next one is really big, you understand that right? ” said the head coach, “Be smart tonight, hug a teammate and let’s sing the fight song!”
The Nation needs to wake up! Khalil Tate and his offensive team are for real! Each week brings a new record or new stat that just makes one speechless. We will take you through all that so you can help The Truth (his aunt’s nickname for the phenom) in the race for the Heisman.
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In a press release, Pac-12 spokesperson Dave Hirsch announced today that Tate won this week’s Pac-12 Offensive Player of the week. Here are the reasons why:
"For the first time in Conference history, Tate has been selected the Pac-12 Football Offensive Player of the Week for the fourth week in a row.Totaled 421 yards of offense and three touchdowns to lead Arizona to a 58-37 victory over No. 15 Washington State.Had a career-long run of 82 yards (fourth-straight contest with a run of 70+ yards), a 49-yard touchdown run and four pass plays of 40+ yards.His 14.03 yards per play on 30 total offense attempts (13-146 rushing, 17-275 passing) is a new school record for a minimum of 25 attempts.Also helped UA to an average of 11.5 yards per play, the school’s biggest clip since at least 1996."
Greg Hansen, Arizona Daily Star, pointed out he may have been the first one to earn four POW’s in a conference in the nation for four consecutive weeks.
Some context on Khalil Tate's 4 straight Player-Week honors: Bo Jackson had 4 at Auburn in '85; Ron Dayne 4 at Wisc in '99. But not in row
— Greg Hansen (@ghansen711) October 30, 2017
Tate was named as a semi-finalist for the 2017 NFF William V. Campbell Trophy awarded to the “Absolute best football scholar-athlete in the nation.” The 12 finalists will be announced on November 1, 2017, at 11:00 am EST. Each finalist will receive an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship.
Tate Named Maxwell Award Semifinalist https://t.co/IQK1zKre2P
— ZonaZealotsFS (@ZonaZealots) October 30, 2017
Tate has the highest Total QB rating performance since 2004 in conference games at 99.1.
Here are the top QBR performances since 2004, taking into account only conference games. pic.twitter.com/7OeXxieY0v
— Kyle Bonagura (@BonaguraESPN) October 30, 2017
Arizona Football named their quarterback Mr. October for scoring 14 touchdowns (eight rushing, six passing) rushing for 100+ yards in four straight games and gaining 1,583 total yards of offense (804 rushing yards in the month of October).
| Rushing | Passing | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Date | School | Opponent | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | Cmp | Att | Pct | Yds | TD | Int | Rate | ||
| 1 | 2017-09-02 | Arizona | Northern Arizona | W | 6 | 62 | 10.3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| 2 | 2017-09-09 | Arizona | Houston | L | 4 | 24 | 6.0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 62.5 | 41 | 0 | 1 | 80.6 | |
| 3 | 2017-10-07 | Arizona | @ | Colorado | W | 14 | 327 | 23.4 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 92.3 | 154 | 1 | 0 | 217.2 |
| 4 | 2017-10-14 | Arizona | UCLA | W | 15 | 230 | 15.3 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 69.2 | 148 | 1 | 0 | 190.2 | |
| 5 | 2017-10-21 | Arizona | @ | California | W | 17 | 137 | 8.1 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 66.7 | 166 | 2 | 1 | 190.3 |
| 6 | 2017-10-28 | Arizona | Washington State | W | 13 | 146 | 11.2 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 58.8 | 275 | 2 | 1 | 221.8 | |
| 6 Games | 69 | 926 | 13.4 | 8 | 46 | 67 | 68.7 | 784 | 6 | 3 | 187.5 |
Provided by CFB at Sports Reference: View Original Table
Generated 10/30/2017.
.@ArizonaFBall QB Khalil Tate leads FBS with a crazy 840 rush yds in October.
— Jason Starrett (@starrettjason) October 31, 2017
No QB has led FBS in rushing over a calendar month since 2010 pic.twitter.com/CGaoXPsPSM
As far as the team awards, Tate helped Arizona Football to be added to the list of Football Writers National Team of the Week. Maybe that’s because the Wildcats are one of the Top 5 offenses with the highest percentage of plays gaining 25+ yards or more.
This week's @TheFWAA team of the week is @ArizonaFBall! #BackthePac https://t.co/s3KWC8DNnY pic.twitter.com/b1jHLVsVPJ
— Pac-12 Conference (@pac12) October 30, 2017
And don’t forget, Arizona Football is now bowl eligible with six wins.
First goal: ✅
— Arizona Football (@ArizonaFBall) October 29, 2017
We’re going to a bowl.
Plenty more to come.
🐻🔽 pic.twitter.com/QYanOtzHPQ
Highlights from the Wildcats Homecoming game against last weeks No. 15 ranked Washington State:
Since Khalil Tate became the quarterback, Arizona has had 15 touchdown drives that took up less than two minutes of clock time.
— Michael Lev (@MichaelJLev) October 31, 2017
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Nothing short of unbelievable and phenomenal, Tate has left fans speechless and may I say even numb with excitement. Breaking records doing things that most NCAA quarterbacks have never done before. Let us not forget the O-Line, the blocks down the field, the defense with four interceptions, none of this happens without all of it. Football is a team sport, and the first person to tell you that is The Truth, Khalil Tate.