2026 University of Arizona Football
Saturday, Sept. 26 | Pullman, Wash. | Gesa Field
Arizona Wildcats (3-1, 0-1 Big 12) at Washington State Cougars (1-3, 0-0 Pac-12)
TEAM NOTES
- Head Coach Brent Brennan earned his 50th career win as the Wildcats improved to 3-1 this season with a 34-24 win over former Pac-12 foe Washington State.
- Arizona is now 29-19 all-time and 13-7 in Pullman against Washington State.
- Arizona's offense totaled 447 yards against WSU, the third game this season that the Wildcats have had 440 or more yards of total offense.
- Arizona's defense shutout Washington State in the third quarter. This is the fourth quarter this season that the Wildcats have held an opponent scoreless.
- Arizona's captions for Saturday afternoon are: QB Noah Fifita, OL Zach Henning, LB Taye Brown, DL Tre Smith, OL Alexander Doost, and S Malcolm Hartzog Jr.
- Washington St. won the toss and deferred to the second half. Arizona will receive and WSU will defend the west goal.
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
- QB Noah Fifita moved back into first place among active FBS quarterbacks in career passing touchdowns with 84.
- Fifita threw four touchdown passes for the eighth game in his career.
- WR Tré Spivey crossed the 100-yard mark in the first quarter, marking the first 100-yard receiving game of his career.
- Spivey has now scored a touchdown in 4 of his last 5 games, dating back to the Holiday Bowl last season.
- Spivey finished the game with a career best 129 receiving yards.
- Spivey had two receiving touchdowns to notch his second career two-touchdown receiving effort. It is his third career multiple-touchdown game.
- S Cam Chapa made his first career interception at Arizona on Washington State's second drive in the first quarter. It was the ninth interception of his collegiate career.
- DL Tre Smith blocked a field goal in the second quarter, the first blocked field goal for the Arizona defense since Ephesians Prysock did it in 2023 against UCLA.
- WR Caleb Smith caught his first career receiving touchdown in the third quarter.
- Fifita went 8-for-8 for 103 yards with a touchdown pass in the third quarter.
- K Michael Salgado-Medina is now 6-for-6 in his career in field goals from 20-29 yards.
- WR Isaiah Mizell has touchdown receptions in back-to-back weeks after hauling in his first career touchdown pass last week against NIU.
TRACKING (Final; Arizona 34, Washington State 24)
- QB Noah Fifita has 10,314 career passing yards, the most in program history and tied for 139th most in FBS history. He is 590 yards shy of breaking into the all-time FBS top 100 in career passing yards.
- QB Noah Fifita has 84 career passing touchdowns, the most in program history and the 104th most in FBS history. He is one TD shy of breaking into the all-time FBS top 100 in career passing touchdowns.
Previous Postgame Notes
| Northern Arizona (Sept. 5) | BYU (Sept. 12) | Northern Illinois (Sept. 19) | Washington State (Sept. 26) |
| Cincinnati (Oct. 3) | West Virginia (Oct. 10) | Iowa State (Oct. 24) | Texas Tech (Oct. 31) |
| TCU (Nov. 6) | Utah (Nov. 14) | Kansas State (Nov. 21) | Arizona State (Nov. 28) |
