ASU’s Jalen Moss leaps into oversized bowl of Frosted Flakes after 44-yard touchdown catch
Jalen Moss celebrated the first TD of his ASU career by jumping into the inflatable Frosted Flakes bowl on the sideline during the Sun Bowl.
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Jalen Moss celebrated the first touchdown of his Arizona State career by jumping into the inflatable Frosted Flakes bowl on the sideline during Wednesday’s Sun Bowl against Duke.
Moss fended off coverage to haul in the catch before running in the 44-yard score, his first touchdown in a Sun Devil uniform after coming up empty across eight regular-season games.
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Moss immediately looked for the bowl as soon as he crossed the goal line, so he understood his assignment. He leapt in like he was Marshawn Lynch with fellow receivers Derek Eusebio and Malik McClain joining him in the bowl shortly after.
As the Sparky mascot was getting out of the bowl — branded with the game’s presenting sponsor — defensive lineman Justin Wodtly made it one more Sun Devil in the bowl, in a sense tackling Sparky back in.
Moss, who appeared to get away with a push-off on the catch, finished the regular season with 11 catches for 144 yards across eight games. The start of his season was spoiled by a foot injury and a sickness, delaying his debut catch with the team until Oct. 11 at Utah.
His touchdown on Wednesday tied the game at 14 and brought him to two catches for 95 yards on the day, as he caught a 51-yard bomb on the opening drive that set up a Jeff Sims rushing score.
After Sims rushed in his second score to make it a 21-21 game, Moss continued to understand the assignment by alerting the signal-caller to a photo opp in a massive Frosted Flakes box.
When Khamari Anderson scored his own touchdown in the third quarter to make it a 35-32 game (following the 2-point conversion), players once again threw a party in the bowl.
Moss had the best receiving day among Sun Devils with 129 yards on five catches in what was a career day for Sims despite throwing a late interception that — paired with Jason Brown Jr.’s fumble on the drive prior — sealed a 42-39 loss.






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Excuse me, but the officiating for this Tony the Tiger bowl is atrocious. Big-10 refs....
A high scoring and entertaining game. Sims is off the charts today. But what is wrong with the ASU secondary getting burnt so badly? No. 5 , Breedlove in particular for his during a high emotion and lack of control activity during a non-league game. A bad day in the office.
Today, IMHO, was Dilly's best coaching performance of his career, by far. Today, I saw an ASU team who totally competed today, who was the epitome of courage, heart and desire. Typically unless you, played you have no idea how hard it is to get players who have hardly played all year, to play together as a team, and to completely sell out, give everything they have on every play, and not be discouraged by adversity. Its my experience that the best way to learn the game,after spending time playing it, is to coach.
The problem I have with a lot of people who write negative reviews, is that they only know the game from their armchair, and have never experienced anything like what happens on the field in Power 5 Conference Games. Almost all of them have never played in a competitive environment where you have to literally fight for 60 minutes. Without that perspective, most armchair experts typically are unable to see the forest for the trees. Based upon your comments about Breedlove, I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that you've never played DB except maybe in junior high gym class.
What stood out to me was the effort, heart and desire ASU showed, on every play, without exception, on both sides of the ball, i.e. Offensively, all the WRs blocking downfield on both passing and running plays; Defensively, how, again on every play, ASU had multiple defenders running to the ball. When you're not impressed by a 330 lb DT running 30 yards to make a play, it's most likely because you never played on a team that played in such situations.
ASU was missing 16 starters today from their roster that started the season. Yet they outplayed Duke by far in the 1st half, but were held back by some really badly missed calls that allowed Duke to stay in the Game, otherwise ASU would likely have been up by 14 pts or more. Duke won the ACC Championship, their QB is already in the Top 5 of next year's Heisman watch, and I thought Manny Diaz had them ready to play. Rowser played, despite declaring for the draft. But the other CBs that played were 5th or 6th on the Depth Chart at the beginning of the year. The other 3 DBs were a collection of the 4th, 5th and 6th on the Depth Chart. The situation at LB and across the DLine was much the same. In a year where ASU had been rotating 2-3 Deep at every position, in today's game ASU had almost no substitutes who were available.