The Arizona Wildcats begin their most critical stretch of the 2018 season when playing Friday at the Utah Utes in Salt Lake City. It’s the first of back-to-back Pac-12 road games—Arizona plays Oct. 20 at UCLA—that will go a long way toward determining if Kevin Sumlin’s first season with the Wildcats includes a bowl appearance.
Utah (3-2, 1-2) is coming off an impressive 40-21 win at Stanford and has won two in a row over Arizona (3-3, 2-1) including last year’s 30-24 win in Tucson. The Wildcats are 13.5-point underdogs, their worst point spread since November 2016.