Early 2026 Arizona Season Preview | Cover 3 Summer School
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Bud Elliott sits down with Jason Scheer of Wildcat Authority to preview Arizona’s 2026 season.
They discuss expectations rising in year two under Brent Brennan, Noah Fifita’s outlook after earning First-Team All-Big 12 honors, and the impact of his relationship with offensive coordinator Seth Doege. Plus, a look at Arizona’s returning talent at running back and wide receiver, along with key questions on the offensive line and in the secondary.
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(0:00) Welcome on Jason Scheer
(0:50) Vibe in Tucson
(1:26) Seth Doege and Noah Fifita
(2:38) Running Backs
(3:50) Wide Receivers
(5:05) Offensive Line
(7:22) Offensive Breakouts
(9:10) Defensive Backs
(11:41) Linebackers
(12:36) Defensive Breakouts
(13:27) Schedule Breakdown
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| 0:00.0 | Indiana can sort of cement itself as we are no longer this team that's going to be fighting for six wins anymore. |
| 0:07.3 | Malachi Tony, is he going to be ready? |
| 0:09.3 | Dante Moore, he showed improvement, better command. |
| 0:18.7 | What's going on, y'all? |
| 0:19.9 | Bud Elliott here of the Cover 3 Collegeball podcast, and this is Summer School. We are back in session with another episode. That's my man, Jason Shear, joining us once again for another year of Summer School Wildcat Authority covering all things Arizona. Jason, how you been, man? Doing well. Thanks for having me. Yeah, man, excited. And heck of a basketball season, you guys got the cover as well. That was fun to watch, man. Yeah, man, excited. And that heck of a basketball season, you guys got the cover as well. |
| 0:38.1 | It was fun to watch, man. Yeah, it was fun. I mean, 25 years at the Final Four and the fun experience. |
| 0:45.5 | Not the way it ended, but overall it was a great season. Absolutely. And, you know, a great bounceback |
| 0:51.3 | season for Brent Brennan in a year two after a pretty rocky year one there in Tucson going nine and four, six and three in the big 12. |
| 0:59.3 | I assume vibes are pretty high there. |
| 1:02.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:02.7 | I mean, it's definitely, you know, you could feel the vibe changing. |
| 1:06.6 | I mean, the coaches, when they're on the road recruiting, they've said it's a different vibe with recruits and high school coaches. The fans, the expectations are higher. You know, it's not very often you have a season around here like he did last year with Arizona football. So the expectations have risen, and I think people are looking forward to football, maybe a little more than they did in the past. Jump into the offense here. |
| 1:47.3 | Seth Deggie is in year two, and that's actually notable because this is the first time, at least from looking through here, that Fafita has had the same offensive coordinator in back-to-back years. And, of course, no Fafita, the record setting. Is he record setting in Arizona yet? If not, like he's going to probably this coming year with how much he's played. What are you expecting, I guess, improvement-wise, |
| 1:47.6 | for him this year? |
| 1:44.4 | Is there anywhere he can |
| 1:48.5 | actually play better that is actually reasonable to get to? Yeah, I asked Seth Dagi this during |
| 1:53.5 | the spring. I said, look, Noah's obviously really good, but what's that next step? And the biggest |
| 1:57.9 | thing they're working on is trusting the scheme as much as possible. There will be times |
| 2:02.4 | where Noah will kind of second guess if something's there or |
| 2:05.7 | will be there. And said, |
| 2:07.4 | he's trying to basically get him to say, look, don't second guess it. It'll |
| 2:10.3 | be there. And they feel that they're close. I mean, |
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