(Photo: Nicholas Badders) A week ago, Arizona State was riding high, fighting for a place atop the Pac-12 South Standings. This week, the Sun Devils coaching staff has been left to explain their team’s regression against USC. “We’ve just got to do a better job of coaching and teaching,” coach Todd Graham said.
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ASU Football: Trojans hand Sun Devils reality check, dominate ASU 48-17
ASU Football: Previewing the Sun Devils’ homecoming showdown with USC
(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) Unlike most schools, Arizona State's homecoming football game is no cupcake. The Sun Devils welcome division foe and No. 21 ranked USC to Tempe on Saturday night, in a game with big Pac-12 South title implications. Kickoff is at 7:45 p.m. and will be televised on ESPN. Scouting the Trojans
ASU Football: Sun Devils overcoming injuries, showing improvement in depth
(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) “Next-man-up” can be an overused phrase, a fallback plan with a built-in excuse when misfortune strikes a football team. Every program in college football suffers injuries, an inevitable cost of doing business in a physical sport. Only a fraction of teams can sustain major absences; even fewer improve as top players
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ASU Football: Nothing fancy behind Sun Devils midseason turnaround
(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) Over the course of the last two years, Arizona State had been dragged down a spiraling path to mediocrity. A seven-win season in 2015. A sub-.500 five-win record last year. A 1-2 non-conference start to this fall’s campaign. Over the course of the last two weeks, the Sun Devils have soared
ASU Football: Forget about bowl eligibility, Sun Devils are looking like Pac-12 South favorites
(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) Changing a narrative is never easy. In college football, it can be near impossible. There was a preconceived notion in Tempe even before this year’s season started about Arizona State: it had coach Todd Graham fighting for his job, quarterback Manny Wilkins having to battle with Blake Barnett for
ASU Football: On the strength of defense, ground game, Sun Devils down Utah 30-10
(Photo: Chaz Frazier/WCSN) After the Arizona State Sun Devils changed the national landscape of college football by upsetting then-No.5 Washington last week, the expectation seemed to be that this team would crash back to Earth against a talented Utah team, reeling from a last-second loss to No. 11 USC, at Rice-Eccles
ASU Football: Sun Devils blank Utah, lead 16-0 at the half
(Photo: Chaz Frazier/WCSN) Arizona State picked up right where it left off last week in the first half of Saturday's contest, shutting out Utah 16-0. In hostile Rice-Eccles Stadium, ASU continued to display the various traits that led to last weekend's upset over then No. 5 Washington. The offense worked within the
