A lot has been made of the Arizona football passing attack, or the lack thereof, with the brunt of the inefficiency directed at quarterback Brandon Dawkins. In the first half he played like a man determined to shut the haters up.
Dawkins wasn’t perfect, but he was as efficient as he has ever been during his time as a Wildcat. Dawkins threw for two scores and ran another during a second quarter that Arizona dominated. Midway through the first half the signal caller dumped a two-yard touchdown pass to running back J.J. Taylor, found Shun Brown down the middle on a nicely timed seem route, then ran one in from five yards out to put the game seemingly away for Arizona.