1998 Arizona Wildcats football team

The 1998 Arizona Wildcats football team represented University of Arizona during the 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the first 11-win season in school history and the best conference record to date. Had UCLA not lost its last regular season game to Miami, Arizona would have likely made its first ever appearance in the Rose Bowl this year, since a UCLA win would have secured them a top 2 finish in the BCS standings and a berth in the BCS National Championship Game, and Arizona would have likely been selected as an at-large team by the Rose Bowl. Instead, the Wildcats settled for a berth in the Holiday Bowl, defeating Nebraska.

1998 Arizona Wildcats football
Holiday Bowl champion
Holiday Bowl, W 23–20 vs. Nebraska
ConferencePacific-10 Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 4
APNo. 4
1998 record12–1 (7–1 Pac-10)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorDino Babers (1st season)
Defensive coordinatorRich Ellerson (2nd season)
Home stadiumArizona Stadium
(Capacity: 57,803)
1998 Pacific-10 Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
No. 8 UCLA $  8 0     10 2  
No. 4 Arizona  7 1     12 1  
Oregon  5 3     8 4  
USC  5 3     8 5  
Washington  4 4     6 6  
Arizona State  4 4     5 6  
California  3 5     5 6  
Oregon State  2 6     5 6  
Stanford  2 6     3 8  
Washington State  0 8     3 8  
  • $ BCS representative as conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendance
September 38:00 p.m.at Hawaii*No. 24ESPN2W 27–638,745
September 1212:30 p.m.at StanfordNo. 21KTTUW 31–1430,096
September 197:00 p.m.Iowa*No. 16FSNW 35–1152,634
September 245:00 p.m.at San Diego State*No. 16ESPNW 35–1623,811
October 37:00 p.m.at No. 20 WashingtonNo. 14FSNW 31–2871,469
October 107:15 p.m.No. 3 UCLANo. 10
  • Arizona Stadium
  • Tucson, Arizona
FSNL 28–5258,738
October 171:00 p.m.at Oregon StateNo. 16W 38–1530,231
October 247:00 p.m.Northeast Louisiana*No. 14
  • Arizona Stadium
  • Tucson, Arizona
KTTUW 45–739,218
October 314:30 p.m.No. 12 OregonNo. 13
  • Arizona Stadium
  • Tucson, Arizona
FSNW 38–344,931
November 77:00 p.m.Washington StateNo. 10
  • Arizona Stadium
  • Tucson, Arizona
FSNAZW 37–2747,761
November 144:30 p.m.at CaliforniaNo. 9KTTUW 27–2336,500
November 274:30 p.m.Arizona StateNo. 7
FSNW 50–4257,953
December 306:00 p.m.vs. No. 14 Nebraska*No. 5ESPNW 23–2065,354
  • *Non-conference game
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Mountain time

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. т = Tied with team above or below. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Final 
AP 24 21 16 16 14 10 16 14 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 
Coaches Poll 25 21 17 16 14 11 17 16 15 11 10 8 7 6 6 4 
BCS Not released 14 10 10 8 7 6 7 Not released

Game summaries

Iowa


UCLA

UCLA at. Arizona
1 234Total
No. 3 Bruins 7 141021 52
No. 10 Wildcats 14 770 28

Arizona State

Arizona State at #7 Arizona
1 234Total
Sun Devils 15 7614 42
No. 7 Wildcats 7 19177 50

Arizona's Trung Canidate rushes for a school record 288 yards.

Nebraska (Holiday Bowl)

Nebraska vs Arizona
1 234Total
No. 14 Cornhuskers 0 1307 20
No. 5 Wildcats 6 3014 23


Team players drafted into the NFL

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL Club
Chris McAlisterCornerback110Baltimore Ravens
Edwin MulitaloGuard4129Baltimore Ravens
Ronnie SmithDefensive back5168Arizona Cardinals
Mike LuckyTight end7229Dallas Cowboys

[1]

References


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.