Wildcats Meet Mountaineers for First Time in Program History

LAST GAME INDIVIDUAL NOTES:

• QB Noah Fifita moved into the program’s all-time top ten with 35 career passing touchdowns following a one-yard scoring toss to WR Chris Hunter in the first quarter.
• Fifita’s 24-yard rush in the first quarter was a career long rush. He finished the game with 24 rush yards, tied for a career high.
• WR Tetairoa McMillan moved to fourth all-time with 2,884 career receiving yards.
• RB Quali Conley’s 25 catches this season (3 today) are the most for an Arizona running back through seven team games of a season since Chris Jennings had 23 at this point in the 2007 season. Conley’s 25 catches are the most by a Big 12 running back in his team’s first seven games of a season since Kansas State’s Deuce Vaughn had 30 at this point of the 2021 season.
• DB Jack Luttrell made his first career interception in the second quarter to stop Colorado on Arizona’s 11-yard line. He made his second career interception — and second interception of the game — in the fourth quarter to stop Colorado’s drive at the Arizona 14-yard line. He is the first Wildcat to have two interceptions in a game since Anthony Pandy had two against Colorado in 2020.
• WR Chris Hunter scored his first career touchdown in the the first quarter, a one-yard reception from Fifita.
• Hunter set career high marks with four catches, 30 yards, and one TD. »TE Sam Olson set a season high mark with 27 receiving yards. He entered today’s game with 15 total yards for the entire season.
• RB Kayden Luke had a career long rush with 11 yards in the fourth quarter.   
• DB Dalton Johnson led the defense with 11 tackles, marking the third double-digit tackling performance of his career.
• DB Owen Goss logged a career-high seven tackles, four of which were solo stops.

LAST GAME TEAM NOTES:

• Arizona snapped a two-game win streak over Colorado and now trails 10-17 in the all-time series.
• Arizona has forced multiple turnovers in a game for the fourth time this season. That is the same amount of such games as Arizona had in both 2023 and 2022. Arizona’s last season with more than four games forcing 2+ TOs was 2017 (eight).
• The Wildcats are the first team to intercept two passes in a single game against Shedeur Sanders in his FBS career (18 games).

THREE STRAIGHT LOSSES: The Wildcats lost their third straight game; it is the first time since the 2022 season that Arizona has dropped three straight games (4, 10/8/22-11/5/22). Arizona’s loss to Texas Tech is the Wildcats’ first loss to an…