Arizona Kicks past TCU 29-28 with 38 Seconds Left
Take away the last field goal and TCU wins 28-26. Instead Michael Salgado-Medina kicked a 37-yarder with 38 seconds left, and Arizona beat the Horned Frogs 29-28 for its seventh win of the year.
The lead changed hands four times, and Arizona had to climb out of two holes to get there. It went up 10-0 on a Noah Fifita touchdown pass to Isaiah Mizell and a 43-yard field goal. TCU took a 14-10 lead in the second quarter, with a Jaden Craig run and then a 93-yard interception return by Hudson Hooper. Fifita ran in from nine yards for a 17-14 Arizona lead in the third, Craig threw to Jordan Dwyer from six yards to flip it back, and a 23-yard Salgado-Medina field goal made it 21-20 TCU to open the fourth. Craig scored again on a two-yard run with 6:35 left for a 28-20 lead, the biggest hole Arizona had to climb out of at eight points.
Fifita hit Quincy Craig from 15 yards with 1:45 left, but the two-point pass failed, so it was 28-26, and the kicker took it from there. Arizona's yardage edge was big, 445 to 281, with 313 passing and 132 rushing. TCU ran only 21 times for 49 yards, and threw for 232. Both teams threw one interception, and the one Arizona threw went 93 yards the other way for a TCU touchdown. Arizona lost no fumbles, while TCU lost one.
Arizona is 7-2 and TCU is 4-5. For fantasy, Fifita had 34.3 points, Craig had 28.5 in the loss and Gio Richardson had 28.4 on 11 catches. Kari Ashley caught 14 passes for TCU.