The Skinny – Freshman Alex Garoutte missed a 47- yard field goal as time expired and the UCLA Bruins escaped with a 29-28 win over the Arizona State Sun Devils before 65,438 fans at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. The Bruins took the lead on a 1-yard Derrick Coleman touchdown run with :49 remaining. ASU […]
When the college football season first kicked off some thought Saturday’s UCLA vs. ASU matchup would determine the winner of the Pac-12 South. Those people aren’t wrong, necessarily, but it’s hard to really say they’re right. While ASU has finally lived up to the hype, UCLA has fallen flat on its face. UCLA currently stands […]
Saturday night Herb Sendek’s Arizona State Sun Devils are playing a game in the Valley, and they’ll undoubtedly be the visitors. The Devils will bus over to Central Phoenix to visit the Grand Canyon Antelopes, a Division II team coached by former ASU assistant and radio broadcaster Russ Pennell, in an exhibition game to prepare […]
It’s just an exhibition. It doesn’t count. Sure, try telling that to the students at Grand Canyon University. “Man, everybody is excited,” said Antelopes senior point guard Kyle Speed. “It’s almost like the rest of the season doesn’t even exist.” Added head coach Russ Pennell on the buzz around campus, “This is the Super Bowl, […]
So, which UCLA team will ASU face Saturday? Will it be the team that allowed 48 points and lost by 36 to U of A? Or. Will it be the team that scored 31 points and beat Cal by 17? Sun Devil head coach Dennis Erickson is betting on the latter. “UCLA has a lot […]
Leading up to their game against Arizona State on September 24th, several members of the USC Trojans were asked about facing feared Sun Devil linebacker Vontaze Burfict. They didn’t hold their tongues. “I’ll drill him,” offensive tackle Matt Kalil said. Quarterback Matt Barkley referred to Burfict as a “dirty player”–a tactic that drew a reprimand […]
The calendar turns to November, the month where a lot will be determined in the Pac-12. The bad part is that none of it will be determined this week. It’s a full slate of games in the conference for the second straight week, but none of them are all that exciting on paper. In fact, […]
No one likes it when their plane arrives late. Friday though Dennis Erickson will insist on it. He wants a late—or later, arrival into Los Angeles to avoid the distractions that come with the nation’s second-largest city. “I think it can be a distraction if you let it be,” said Erickson. “We won’t let it […]
Bowl eligibility. That phrase shouldn’t excite the fan base of any halfway decent college football program. Unless you haven’t sniffed that phrase in three years. The Arizona State Sun Devils reached bowl eligibility for the first time since 2007 with their 48-14 win over Colorado on Saturday night, meaning fans of the fork can start […]
Becoming bowl eligible would’ve been celebrated by ASU last season and even the season before. But not this year. Not with a season where the expectations are much higher than just reaching the post-season and any one of the 35 different bowl games. “Obviously that’s a first goal of many we’re trying to achieve this […]
Dennis Erickson had just wrapped up his weekly press conference when he returned for a second round of questions. Though this time he had grown several inches. 6-foot-8 Brock Osweiler, the Sun Devils star quarterback, walked in for his own Monday press conference dressed up as his head coach for Halloween. Follow @Vincemarotta
The Arizona State Sun Devils left no doubt on Saturday night , taking apart their new Pac-12 rival Colorado 48-14 in front of a Homecoming crowd at Sun Devil Stadium. With the win, the Sun Devils pushed their record to 6-2 and 4-1 in conference play. Apparently the voters in both the AP and USA […]
The bye week did Arizona State some good. Dennis Erickson’s 21st-ranked Sun Devils were saddled with a 14-point loss to the Oregon Ducks two weeks ago. Two full weeks of marinating in that feeling of defeat. Two weeks of agonizing over plays that could have been made and opportunities missed. But once the Devils ran […]
Scribes who cover the Pac-12 have tabbed the Arizona State Sun Devils to finish 9th in the conference in a preseason poll released Friday morning from Pac-12 Media Day in Los Angeles. Head coach Herb Sendek’s squad returns eight players and seven letter winners from last year’s 12-19 team that finished last in the conference. […]
On paper it would appear #21 ASU should have little trouble against Colorado. The Buffaloes are 1-7 and 0-4 in their first year of PAC- 12 play. They have lost five straight, six straight against ranked teams and 21 straight away from home. In addition, Colorado has lost 11 regulars in its two deep—including six […]
Steven Threet is used to the spotlight. It comes with the job of playing quarterback for a major college football program. But those days are over. Yet the spotlight remains. The former ASU quarterback found himself in our nation’s capital last week speaking in front of the U.S. Senate. “My C-SPAN debut,” he said with […]
We head into the last weekend of October, and things are starting to look a little more clear in the Pac-12–or maybe half of it. The Pac-12 South sees 21st-ranked Arizona State clearly in the catbird seat, while the intrigue is still thick in the North, with Stanford and Oregon still undefeated in conference play […]
It’s no secret that Arizona State head coach is enjoying one of his better seasons. The Devils are leading the Pac-12 South, in control of their own destiny to reach the Pac-12 championship game and, given the outlook of everyone else in the division, the team could be atop for quite some time. So it […]
Teams always believe they can get more pressure on the quarterback. ASU believes they’ll be able to do just that with the return of sophomore defensive end Junior Onyeali. “Having Junior back (Saturday against Colorado) makes a big difference,” explained head coach Dennis Erickson. Onyeali, who led the Sun Devils and all PAC-10 freshmen with […]
Dennis Erickson’s team is having a banner year, and with just one season remaining on his contract it would seem as if the time is right for a contract extension. A guest on Arizona Sports 620’s Burns and Gambo Tuesday, the 64-year-old said he’d like to see happen. “I’d like to be here for as […]
It’s referred to as coach speak but it’s not coming from the head coach. It’s coming from the quarterback. It’s coming from one of the team’s captains. “I do know,” said Brock Osweiler, “that this team has been very good about taking it one week at a time and I think that’s the most important […]
Arizona State junior linebacker Vontaze Burfict has been a target of both local and national media for what is perceived as lackluster play in 2011. That didn’t stop the folks who hand out The Butkus Award to the nation’s top linebacker, who today included Burfict on their list of twelve semifinalists for the hardware. Burfict […]
Earlier this season, Arizona State head coach Dennis Erickson said we may see injured cornerback Omar Bolden, who suffered a torn ACL in spring practice, back after ASU’s bye week. Well, the bye week has come and gone, and the 21st-ranked Sun Devils are beginning preparations for the Colorado Buffaloes on Saturday afternoon. Does that […]
After three months of practice and seven straight games, ASU needed a break. “That bye week came at a very crucial point in time,” said quarterback Brock Osweiler during his weekly Monday press conference. “It really gave guys the chance to kind of heal up their body, refresh a little bit and get focused on […]
With no game Saturday, ASU head coach Dennis Erickson had a chance to sit back, relax and be a fan for one of the few times during the season. “I had the remote…watched a lot of games,” he explained during his weekly press conference Monday. Of course in watching his colleagues he did what any […]
“The way I see it in my eyes is we’re first place in the Pac-12 South,” ASU quarterback Brock Osweiler said. “We’re sitting right where we had hoped we’d be at this time during the season and we just have to continue to build upon that.” Osweiler has been praised for his leadership this season, […]
The expectations were high for ASU coming into the season. Now seven games in to the 2011 campaign, those expectations remain unchanged. “The way I see it in my eyes is we’re in first place in the Pac-12 South,” said quarterback Brock Osweiler. “Our goal at the beginning of the season was to win the […]
Arizona State University’s middle linebacker Vontaze Burfict is picking up the critics at an extraordinary rate. Count ESPN NCAA football analyst Bob Davie as another analyst who calls Burfict’s on-field antics a distraction that is causing his NFL draft stock to fall quickly. “I’m just basing it on what I see from a productivity standpoint […]
