Over the past six weeks, Arizona (4-6, 2-5 Big 12) had gone through a five-game losing streak that was capped off by an embarrassing 56-12 loss against UCF on the road. And during the bye-week you had many UA fans asking for a coaching change and put first-year coach Brent Brennan in a tough spot with the fan base.

Well, the bye-week helped get this Arizona team back on track as the Wildcats snapped their five-game losing streak in a convincing 27-3 win over Houston.

The win keeps Arizona's bowl hopes alive and helps the team get the losing streak off of its back with just two games remaining in the regular season.

Throughout the losing streak, quarterback Noah Fifita had struggled and came into the game throwing 10 interceptions to his 13 touchdowns.

On Saturday night, Fifita played nearly a clean game and is only interception coming early in the fourth quarter with the game out of hand. He ended the night going 20 of 35 on passing attempts to go with his 224 yards and two touchdowns.

On the defensive side of the field, Arizona was able to redeem its 56-point blunder against UCF by having it best defensive performance of the season in terms of points allowed. The Wildcats held Houston to 326 total yards and held the Cougars to 2 of 13 on third down conversation attempts.

Arizona's defensive front was able to get into the backfield and create havoc getting to Zeon Chriss five times and hurried him on three other passes.

It was the first time all season that this Duane Akina led defense didn't allow their opponent to get into the red zone.

To cap it all off, right before the end of the half, kicker Tyler Loop his a program-record 62-yard field goal to give Arizona the 10-3 lead going into the half. He became the 35th NCAA kicker to connect from that distance.

Arizona has kept its bowl game hopes alive and will face TCU (6-4, 4-3) needing to win on the road to get to the postseason. The time and station have not been set for the game as of this moment.

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