Stanford @ Arizona (7:30pm et)
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Arizona is coming off a very tough loss to Washington when a interception was taken back for a touch down off the foot of a receiver. Arizona had no business losing this game. Stanford went to Oregon State and lost big time and showed their weaknesses.
Arizona is now 2-10 in their last 12 road games and Arizona who was weak on offense is now able to move the ball since they started Nick Foles. I his two starts he has 6TD 2 interceptions but is completing 71.7% of his passes and has 737 yards. Stanford a team that was dominated by Oregon State will have to now face a team on the road in Arizona that beat Oregon State on the road. Arizona went into Oregon State and won 37-32 and are coming off an emotional loss. This team wants to make up for their last loss badly and in more ways have a better overall team. Arizona is ranked 31 in overall offense which considerably better than the offenses that Stanford has had to face (average 78th total offense opponent). Particularly Stanford has faced extremely weak running offenses until last week they have faced an average 95th rushing offense, and have just a 49th ranked rush defense. I think they get exposed here again on the ground as Arizona is ranked 25th in rushing offense with Grigsby, Antolin, and Nwoko running the ball. Grigsby is questionable for Saturday night, but I expect him to most likely play even if he doesn't Arizona is deep at the position.
Bottom line we saw how Stanford struggled on defense against a balanced offensive attack. That is exactly what Arizona possesses here with the emergence of Nick Foles and Stanford's glaring weak pass defense ranked 71st. Stanford is a run first team with Gerhart and ranked 13th overall. To get that ranking they faced an average rush defense of 74th. Look for Arizona to stop and force Stanford to pass with their 19th ranked rush defense.
