Arizona vs Cincinnati football: Big 12 Week 5 game on FOX, streaming on FUBO
The short version
- Arizona hosts Cincinnati at Casino Del Sol Stadium in Tucson on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, in a Big 12 Week 5 game.
- Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. MST (11 p.m. ET).
- The game airs on FOX and streams on FUBO, which the listing says has a free-trial option.
- Jack Kizer handles play-by-play, with Mark Helfrich as the analyst.
- The matchup is one of six Big 12 games on the Week 5 schedule.
Arizona welcomes Cincinnati to Casino Del Sol Stadium in Tucson on Saturday, Oct. 3, for a Big 12 Week 5 game kicking off at 8 p.m. MST on FOX, with streaming on FUBO.
The Arizona Wildcats and the Cincinnati Bearcats meet on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, in a Big 12 Conference game. The matchup falls in Week 5 of the college football season. Arizona serves as the host team for the conference contest.
Casino Del Sol Stadium in Tucson, Arizona, is the site of the game. Tucson sits in the Mountain time zone, which is reflected in the listed start time, so an 8 p.m. kickoff is the local hour for anyone attending in person. Cincinnati makes the trip to face the Wildcats on the road.
Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. MST, a start time that converts to 11 p.m. ET. The Saturday night slot means viewers in the Eastern time zone face a late evening. The listed time applies to both the FOX telecast and the FUBO stream.
FOX is the television home for the matchup. The network's assignment gives the Big 12 game a broadcast window on Saturday night. No alternate channel appears in the listing for the contest.
Viewers who stream can turn to FUBO for the live broadcast of the game. The listing notes a free-trial option for the service. FUBO provides the streaming route for fans following the Arizona-Cincinnati matchup, and it was the only streaming platform listed for the game.
The broadcast crew consists of Jack Kizer and Mark Helfrich. Kizer handles the play-by-play duties, and Helfrich serves in the analyst role. No additional crew members were named in the announcer information for the game.
Arizona-Cincinnati is one of six Big 12 games on the Week 5 schedule. The rest of the league slate has UCF visiting Houston, West Virginia traveling to Iowa State, BYU heading to TCU, Texas Tech going to Colorado and Baylor playing at Arizona State. Baylor's trip to Arizona State gives the state a second Big 12 home game that week. Each of those conference games also appears in the outlet's Week 5 picks and predictions coverage.
The broader Week 5 calendar features Penn State visiting Northwestern, Vanderbilt traveling to Georgia, Notre Dame meeting North Carolina, Miami going to Clemson, Alabama playing at Mississippi State, Michigan visiting Minnesota, Ohio State heading to Iowa, Auburn traveling to Tennessee, Florida playing at Missouri and Washington facing USC. Those matchups join the Big 12 games on a crowded Saturday. Fans can build a full day of viewing around the schedule before the late kickoff in Tucson.
The details come from a report by Jeremy Cluff of the Arizona Republic, distributed by Yahoo Sports. The accompanying Week 5 coverage includes score predictions, picks and odds for Arizona-Cincinnati, plus win probabilities, point spreads, moneylines and over/unders across the Big 12 slate. Cluff's report doubles as a viewer's guide, pairing the broadcast logistics with those predictions.
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