Arizona is destroyed by Arizona State in the Territory Cup to end the season

The Arizona Wildcats football season is officially over.

On Saturday, they knew the Territorial Cup would be their final contest of the season after failing to secure six wins that would have qualified them for a bowl game.

Considering the expectations placed on this Wildcats team at the start of the year and some of their best players choosing to stay in Tucson despite the head coach change, not even playing a postseason game was a disaster.

The final exclamation point was made for Arizona.

While there is nothing but pride for the Wildcats in the game against Arizona State, they could have shown up at home to beat their arch-rivals and potentially eliminate the Sun Devils from College Football Playoff contention.

Instead, Arizona was destroyed 49-7.

Things immediately went off the rails for the Wildcats when the Sun Devils took the first kickoff, went down and scored a touchdown after nine plays. After forcing a punt on the first four plays from scrimmage, Arizona State managed to score another touchdown and take a 14-0 lead.

But the misery wasn’t over yet.

Arizona State continued to dominate by forcing two more punts, a missed field goal and a turnover on downs while scoring touchdowns on five of their six possessions and taking a 35-0 lead into halftime.

Coming out of the locker room, Arizona managed to get on the board as they drove 75 yards in eight plays and scored a touchdown on a completion from Noah Fifita to Tetairoa McMillan.

That’s it for the Wildcats.

Their next four possessions resulted in three punts and an interception, while Arizona State scored two more touchdowns to give themselves even more space on the scoreboard.

It was a brutal end to a tough season in Tucson.

In what was likely the final game of his college career, McMillan caught six balls for 68 yards and the only touchdown.

Arizona will have to do a lot of digging this winter and spring to get things going under Brent Brennan after his first year as head coach of the Wildcats was a disaster.