{"id":243971,"date":"2025-09-21T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243971\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:28:11","slug":"arizona-football-opens-as-small-underdog-vs-iowa-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243971\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona football opens as small underdog vs. Iowa State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Through three games, Arizona has been one of the best bets in college football. The Wildcats are 3-0 against the spread (ATS) and are covering by an average 13 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Will that trend continue this week when the Wildcats open Big 12 play on the road?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona has opened as a 6.5-point underdog at Iowa State, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/ncaaf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to FanDuel Sportsbook.<\/a> Arizona and No. 12 Iowa State kick off at 4 p.m. PST Saturday on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona is coming off a 23-17 home victory over Kansas State in a game it entered as a slight underdog. Both Arizona and Iowa State had bye weeks this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona is 6-3-1 ATS in its last 10 games coming off a bye week, dating back to to 2014. Last year Arizona covered only two games all season and both were after byes: The UA beat Utah 23-10 as a 7.5-point underdog and defeated Houston 27-3 as a 1.5-point favorite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Wildcats went 1-3 ATS last season as road underdogs of at least six points, with the one cover coming against Utah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona faces an Iowa State program that is 2-1-1 ATS in 2025. The Cyclones were three-touchdown favorites last week at Arkansas State and failed to cover, winning 24-16. Iowa State is 5-5 in its last 10 games coming off a bye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arizona and Iowa State are playing for the first time since 1968. Arizona defeated the Cyclones in Ames 21-12 that year. Arizona is 4-1-1 all time in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through three games, Arizona has been one of the best bets in college football. The Wildcats are 3-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[113875,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-243971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-arizona-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115242526486268741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}