(Photo: Scotty Bara/WCSN) Hopes of national title were essentially extinguished (barring a truly tremendous amount of chaos) with a loss to the Oregon State Beavers on Saturday night, but many of the lofty goals of the Arizona State Sun Devils are still somewhat feasible, if not entirely reachable. The first of those goals is the
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ASU Football: Sun Devils fall into trap vs. Oregon State
(Photo: Sun Devil Athletics) No. 6 Arizona State needed a comeback on Saturday night, and the Sun Devils couldn't find it, as hopes of a national championship died on Saturday night with a loss at the hands of the Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis, Ore. with a 35-27 loss. The same narrative that was a weekly
ASU Football: Sun Devils trying to focus to avoid trap game
(Photo: Allyson Cummings/WCSN) After a day of preparing for Oregon State on Wednesday, Arizona State running back D.J. Foster admitted that he and the other players paid attention to the newest College Football Playoff rankings that were released on Tuesday and liked what they saw. While coaches and players alike have been adamant
ASU Football: This isn’t the same Sun Devil defense that lost to UCLA
(Photo: Allyson Cummings/WCSN) The College Football Playoff bracket will be set in less than a month, which leaves four weeks of bickering amongst fans about the merits of each team in contention for a spot in the four-team postseason tournament. For the Arizona State Sun Devils, there really isn't any ambiguity or
ASU Football: Sun Devils climb to No. 6 in CFB Playoff rankings
ASU Football: Offense comes up clutch after lull…again
(Photo: Allyson Cummings/WCSN) The Arizona State Sun Devils scored four touchdowns in a 7:07 span between the first and second quarter to completely bury the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in a deficit that proved too much to overcome. But it nearly was overcome, as the ASU offense went completely AWOL and
ASU Football: Sun Devils validated as national power with 55-31 win
(Photo: Allyson Cummings/WCSN) ESPN elected to take its weekly college football preview show, College GameDay, to East Lansing, Mich. instead of Tempe, Ariz. and added insult to injury on Saturday morning when analyst Kirk Herbstreit called the No. 9 Arizona State Sun Devils "the most overvalued" team by the College Football Playoff
ASU Football: Sun Devils defeat turnover-prone Notre Dame
(Photo: Allyson Cummings/WCSN) No. 9 Arizona State took advantage of five turnovers to build a 34-3 lead over No. 10 Notre Dame in the first half and survived a huge second-half comeback attempt to pull out a 55-31 win in the biggest non-conference game in the history of Sun Devil Stadium. The Fighting Irish scored first in
ASU Football: Sun Devils climb to No. 9 in CFB Playoff rankings
(Photo: Scotty Bara/WCSN) An unexpected swap has the Arizona State Sun Devils as the higher-ranked team for Saturday's matchup against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, as the College Football Playoff committee slid ASU up five spots to No. 9 after a 19-16 overtime victory over Utah. The Sun Devils entered last week
