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Show Cougars host Arizona Saturday as part of big homecoming week was able to come up with a 9-9 tie against University of Texas at El Pasa, a team that humbled the Cougars 47-17. Theme for this year's BYU homecoming is "Cast a Cougar Shadow." And right now, after being run over by Utah State 30-9, the Mountain Cats are casting a mini-shadow. The loss at Logan was decisive, but then the Cougars felt almost as outclassed following the lopsided lop-sided defeat to UTEP before bouncing back to rip Utah. BYU, a likely candidate as the in-and-out team of 1967, hopes to be on the upswing again this weekend for its homecoming with Arizona. Following a dizzy pattern of ups and downs, the Cougars tangle with the Wildcats Saturday Sat-urday afternoon in Provo. It will mark Arizona's first appearance ap-pearance on the BYU home field, and the 1:30 kickoff is expected to take place before a crowd of more than 25,000. For the Cougar's, Saturday's game looms as a chance to hang with the front-runners in the WAC race. BYU is sporting a 2-1 league record and could pick up some of the WAC leftovers behind Wyoming, Wyom-ing, if they can somehow get past back-to-back games with the two Arizona schools. The Wildcats will come into Saturday's game fresh from a 48-13 , conquest of New Mexico last Saturday. This is the same Lobo team that the Cougars mauled 44-14 in the season, opener, which means that BYU and Arizona might be comparable compar-able at this point in the season. sea-son. Of the three other mutual opponents faced, both BYU and Arizona have fared about the same. Both lost to Wyoming and beat Utah, while Arizona |