Fifita becomes Arizona's all-time leader in TD passes in 30-24 win over No. 22 Cincinnati

Noah Fifita passed for 294 yards and a touchdown to go Arizona’s all-time person successful TD passes arsenic the Wildcats bushed No. 22 Cincinnati 30-24 successful the archetypal crippled betwixt the teams

CINCINNATI -- Noah Fifita passed for 294 yards and a touchdown to go Arizona's all-time person successful TD passes arsenic the Wildcats bushed No. 22 Cincinnati 30-24 connected Saturday successful the archetypal crippled betwixt the teams.

Fifita was 23 for 31 passing and his scoring walk successful the 4th fourth was his 68th vocation TD pass, surpassing the marks of Nick Foles and Willie Tuitama.

Kris Hutson had 8 catches for 123 yards for Arizona (7-3, 4-3 Big 12), his 4th vocation 100-yard receiving game.

Cincinnati, coming disconnected a bye week pursuing a 45-14 nonaccomplishment astatine No. 14 Utah, got wrong 3 points connected Zion Johnson's TD tally with 6:38 left.

Arizona kicker Michael Salgado-Medina, who missed a tract extremity effort and had different effort blocked successful the archetypal half, connected from 50 yards to widen the Wildcats' pb to 30-24 with 1:34 left.

The Wildcats' defence made a large play connected the archetypal play from scrimmage.

Brendan Sorsby's walk was deflected and intercepted by Jay'Vion Cole astatine the Bearcats' 26. Two plays later, Ismail Mahdi's 27-yard touchdown tally enactment the Wildcats up 7—0 conscionable 57 seconds in.

Sorsby, who came successful averaging 230 passing yards per game, was 15 for 28 passing for 154 yards against Arizona.

The Bearcats (7-3, 5-2) rushed for 140 yards successful the archetypal quarter, led by Tawee Walker who had 104 yards connected his archetypal 4 carries, including a 54-yard run. It's Walker's archetypal 100-yard rushing crippled since Oct. 19, 2024.

Sorsby threw a touchdown walk to Jeff Caldwell and ran for different people to assistance the Bearcats instrumentality a 14-10 pb into halftime.

Cincinnati rushed for lone 50 yards aft the opening quarter.

A 50-yard touchdown tally by Kedrick Reescano enactment Arizona up 20-14 successful the 3rd quarter. It was the 2nd TD tally of much than 50 yards successful his career.

Fifita's 15-yard TD walk to Gio Richardson with 10:53 near successful the 4th fourth capped a nine-play, 75-yard thrust and gave the Wildcats a 27-17.

Arizona: The Wildcats held an hostile to less than 200 passing yards for the eighth clip this season, the astir since 2009.

Cincinnati: After going 7 consecutive games without an interception, Sorsby has 3 successful the past 2 games.

Arizona: Hosts Baylor connected Saturday.

Cincinnati: Hosts No. 12 BYU connected Saturday.

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