UArizona football chimes in on BYU before heading to Vegas

TUCSON (KVOA) - With Pac-12 teams specified arsenic Utah and Arizona State opening their seasons connected a Thursday night, the Wildcats are inactive being arsenic diligent arsenic they tin arsenic Coach Jedd Fisch and the University of Arizona preps for the opener successful Las Vegas against BYU. 

The kickoff is acceptable for 7:30 p.m. connected Saturday night.

Here are immoderate of the "game themes" and "fun facts" for Arizona's archetypal crippled successful the Coach Jedd Fisch era.

• Arizona coaches are 19-10-2 all-time successful their archetypal crippled arsenic caput coach. 
• Arizona is 83-27-5 all-time successful play openers and has faced the Cougars 9 different times successful the play opener. The Wildcats are 4-4-1 each clip vs. BYU successful the play opener.
• The past clip Arizona and BYU faced disconnected successful the play opener, the Cougars came distant victorious with a people of 28-23 successful Tucson to footwear disconnected the 2018 season.
• Head manager Jedd Fisch announced successful his play property league that some Gunner Cruz and Will Plummer volition stock the backmost duties successful week 1 vs. BYU. Cruz, who arrived connected field for outpouring ball, volition beryllium making his archetypal authoritative quality for Arizona portion Plummer played successful 3 games past play with 1 commencement against Colorado.
• Arizona returns 33 antithetic players who person started astatine slightest 1 crippled for the Wildcats successful their career. Donovan Laie leads the mode with 29 vocation starts. Laie, who has started each crippled of his career, could go the ninth violative lineman to person started 30 oregon much consecutive games since Arizona began tracking game-by-game starters successful 1993. 
• Head manager Jedd Fisch brought successful 17 FBS transfers to Tucson, with immoderate of them arriving for outpouring signifier and the remainder during the summer/fall. Of those 16 transfers, they combined to commencement 81 games astatine their erstwhile schools