Good luck, Jedd Fisch.
The Arizona Wildcats have their 2021 football schedule, and it does the struggling program no favors with how the games are laid out.
Fisch, hired on Dec. 23 to replace Kevin Sumlin, inherits a 12-game losing streak and now a slate of opponents that includes five Pac-12 road games and a season-opening trip to Las Vegas.
Here are some of the top takeaways from Arizona’s 2021 schedule:
This is Arizona’s toughest nonconference slate in years
Arizona doesn’t face a power-conference foe in non-league play for the ninth consecutive year, a streak that will end in 2022 when Mississippi State comes to Tucson.