2005 Arizona Wildcats football team
American college football season
The 2005 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. They were coached by Mike Stoops in his second season with the Wildcats. They ended the year with a 3–8 record (2–6 against Pac-10 opponents), which was identical to the previous season in terms of the record.
Despite a below-average record, the season featured a blowout upset victory over UCLA in November that was a high point for the Wildcats during the year.
Before the season
During the offseason, Stoops and his coaching staff went on recruiting trips to get players that would help the Wildcats improve from their 2004 season. By the start of the preseason, the team introduced red jerseys that were to be worn during select home games. It would become the first time since 1980 that Arizona will red at home (they traditionally wore blue jerseys for home games). Stoops believed that wearing red would help the team have a success at winning, though Stoops wanted the Wildcats to distinguish themselves from a few other Pac-10 schools (including USC, Stanford, Washington State, and Arizona State) whose colors are a variation of red, though Arizona and California have blue as one of their colors, Arizona's blue is slightly lighter than Cal's. The addition of red jerseys, along with the blue helmets that were introduced prior to the start of the previous season, would lead to excitement from fans who believed that the Wildcats would be prepared to compete and have an impact on future success (the fans have often worn red during Arizona's home games since Stoops became coach as it was considered a good luck charm for the team and that wearing blue would be bad luck).
Schedule
Game summaries
Utah
In the season opener, the Wildcats traveled to Salt Lake City for a Friday night matchup with Utah, who had gotten a new head coach.
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