Arizona vs. Northern Arizona picks, predictions: Who wins Week 1 college football game?

Arizona Republic The Arizona Wildcats host the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks in a Week 1 college football game on Saturday, Sept. 2 at Arizona Stadium in Tucson. Which team will win the game? Check out these picks and predictions for the game, which is scheduled to begin at 7 p.

m. MST and can be seen on Pac-12 Networks. Arizona is coming off a 5-7 season.

Northern Arizona went 3-8 in 2022. Arizona holds a 15-2 advantage in the all-time series against Northern Arizona, but NAU won the most recent matchup in 2021, 21-19. Pac-12 football power rankings:Conference has chance to make early statement in Week 1 ESPN: Arizona has a 95.

3% chance to beat Northern Arizona The site gives NAU at 4. 7% shot at picking up the victory in Tucson on Saturday night. SB Nation: All six writers predict an Arizona victory over NAU Interestingly, all six either have the Wildcats going 7-5 or 6-6 on the season.

Athlon Sports: Wildcats will get out to good start vs. Lumberjacks It writes: "Fisch says his two goals in 2023 are to sell out all six home games and to play in a bowl game, something that Arizona hasn’t done since 2017. Interest in UA football has grown significantly.

The Wildcats sold a school-record 15,000 tickets for the spring game — not counting thousands of students. Getting off to a good start — beating NAU, UTEP and conference-opening opponent Stanford over the first four weeks — is imperative for Arizona’s bowl hopes. " Saturday Out West: Arizona will get revenge vs.

Northern Arizona Jon Gold writes: "For the handful of Wildcats who remain from Fisch’s first season in 2021, a miserable 1-11 campaign, the sting of suffering the first loss to in-state “rival” Northern Arizona in almost 90 years still lingers. That 21-19 defeat was shocking at the time and still is. A Lumberjacks win this year is beyond belief, as evidenced by Arizona’s 96.

3% chances according to ESPN’s Football Power Index. " SB Nation: Arizona will beat NAU by a couple of scores Eric Newman wrote: "I think it’s possible to win for the Lumberjacks. But, as I said in the previous answer, the teams are different.

The guys in Tucson aren’t going to overlook this team again. I think Arizona wins, probably by a couple scores. ” Odds Shark: NAU 31.

5, Arizona 26. 5 The site has the Lumberjacks upsetting the Wildcats in Week 1 on the road. .