On the 11th week, they rested. Well, sort of.
The Arizona Wildcats will not have a game this weekend, their bye coming after 10 consecutive weeks of competition, which followed more than a month of intense preseason practice and preparation.
In other words: these guys needed a break.
“I think the bye comes at a good time for us,” coach Kevin Sumlin said Monday. “It didn’t look like that at the beginning of the year but it does now. We’ve just got to continue to play the way we did the last few weeks.