On the strength of its defense, ninth-ranked ASU (8-1) jumped in front of the 10th-ranked Fighting Irish 34-3 in the first half and held on for a 55-31 victory.
If ASU wants to find a way to win Saturday's game against No. 10 Notre Dame, they will need Taylor Kelly at the top of his game, according to Pac-12 Network analyst Rick Neuheisel.
Arizona State and Notre Dame met last year in Dallas, set for an eventual shootout between an unranked and low-ranked team, registering very little importance on the championship radar. The stakes are much higher in Saturday’s matchup at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe. The Sun Devils are ninth in the College Football Playoff Rankings, and […]
It’s always big when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish come to town. It’s even bigger when there’s a revenge factor involved. And it’s off-the-charts huge when the Golden Domers invade your stadium for a game with College Football Playoff implications. That’s the scenario this week for the 9th-ranked Arizona State Sun Devils as 10th-ranked Notre […]
According to the calendar, six weeks -- some 42 days -- have passed since Arizona State surrendered a Sun Devil Stadium opponent-record 62 points to UCLA.
Coming off of a game-winning field goal against Utah and a selection as the Pac-12 special teams Player of the Week, Arizona State kicker Zane Gonzalez’s week just got better. Gonzalez was named a semifinalist for the Lou Groza National Collegiate Place-Kicker Award on Thursday. The honor makes Gonzalez the first kicker to be named […]
TEMPE, Ariz. — No excuses. Though there are many to choose from. Whether it be the high winds experienced in Washington or the top-ranked pass rush delivered by Utah, or word his injury was a broken right foot that required surgery which accounted for a six-week absence and inevitable rust upon his return. No, Taylor […]
TEMPE, Ariz. — A funny thing happened to Arizona State playing the Pac-12’s second-best run defense last Saturday. The team rediscovered its rushing attack, a phase that had deserted them in the three games prior. The Sun Devils went from averaging a combined 2.2 yards per attempt against USC, Stanford and Washington to 5.5 yards […]
Arizona State head coach Todd Graham has said it before and he repeated it Monday. “You have to have adversity to really grow and develop into a championship-caliber team.” What about a championship-caliber quarterback? Taylor Kelly has struggled in his return; it’s no secret. Against Washington, he completed just over half of his passes. He […]
Gonzalez connected on 4-of-5 field-goal attempts, including a game-winning 36-yard kick, in ASU's 19-16 overtime victory Saturday at home against Utah.
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The start time for Arizona State’s Nov. 15 road tilt at Oregon State has been announced. Prepare for a late night, Sun Devil fans. The game will kick off at 8:45 p.m. Arizona time, and be broadcast on ESPN and ESPN Phoenix 620 am. Oregon State has struggled this year to the tune of a […]
There is very little doubt that the Oregon Ducks are superior to the Stanford Cardinal in 2014 in terms of talent. Then again, you could have made that argument in each of the last two seasons as well, but Stanford won each of those meetings between the two teams and went on to win the […]
The Arizona State Sun Devils are just outside the top 10 teams in the nation in the latest Associated Press poll, thanks to their hard-fought 16-13 overtime victory over Utah on Saturday night. The newest AP Top 25 list was released Sunday, and Todd Graham’s group placed 11th, up four spots from the previous week. […]
TEMPE, Ariz. — My how the script has flipped. Remember all that talk before the season started about how Arizona State would have to outgun opponents in order to win games in 2014? In early November, that notion is a distant memory. The Sun Devils used another tremendous defensive effort, and a 36-yard overtime field […]
It’s been a really long time since the Utah Utes have experienced a football victory over the Arizona State Sun Devils. In fact, it’s been 38 years since the Utes’ last win in the series — a 31-28 triumph in Tempe. Sometimes, history matters in a college football rivalry. That’s not the case this week […]
TEMPE, Ariz. — The ball just seemed to hang in the air, waiting for someone, anyone to grab it. Redshirt junior receiver Gary Chambers did, hauling in what would be quarterback Taylor Kelly’s 25th and final pass attempt of the night, a seven-yard throw into the end zone. “I didn’t see Gary catch it,” Kelly […]
