(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
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ASU Football: Sun Devils drop sixth straight in 56-35 loss to Arizona
(Photo: Scotty Bara/WCSN) Arizona State (5-7) dropped its sixth-straight game and the second Territorial Cup of the Todd Graham era 56-35 to Arizona (3-9) in Tucson on Friday night. The Wildcats threw the ball just eight times on the evening and didn’t elect to pass one time in the second half. Instead, Arizona ran
ASU Football: Brandon Dawkins, UA offense rolls, Arizona State struggles in first half of Territorial Cup
ASU Football: Seniors look ahead to Territorial Cup, bowl implications
(Photo: Scotty Bara/WCSN) This year's crop of Arizona State seniors has never gone a season in which they haven’t gotten the opportunity to play in a bowl game. Still, that reality is a possibility when the Sun Devils (5-6) travel to Tucson for the 91st Territorial Cup against a vulnerable Arizona Wildcats
ASU Football: (COLUMN) 2016 Territorial Cup is basis to measure mediocrity
(Photo: Gabrielle Mercer/WCSN) For the first time since 2003, neither Arizona State nor Arizona will enter the Territorial Cup with a winning record. In fact, in terms of both teams’ combined record, seven total wins between both programs is the second-lowest mark in the history of the series since Arizona State
ASU Football: Sun Devils reclaim Territorial Cup
(Photo: Scotty Bara/WCSN) Leading up to this game, everybody viewed the 2015 Sun Devil football team as a disappointment. Losing games they should have won, underwhelming performances from impact players, inconsistent play on both sides of the ball, and not meeting most of their goals. While that last statement may be true,
ASU Football: Arizona preview
(Photo: Scotty Bara/WCSN) A matchup between the two most recent Pac-12 South Division champions is also a matchup between two teams whose divisional title hopes were dead in the water midway through the season. Arizona State (South champs in 2013) and Arizona (2014 champs) sit at a collective 11-10, but while the
ASU Football: Sun Devils focused on biggest game of the season against Arizona
(Photo: Elaine Wilson/WCSN) Nothing quite like the start of rivalry week. Although Arizona State and Arizona are a combined 11-10, that doesn’t mitigate the importance and emotions heading into the 89th installment of the Territorial Cup. “This game is worth five wins,” ASU head coach Todd Graham. With both teams relatively underachieving according to
ASU Football: Pac-12 South Preview
(Photo: Alli Cline/WCSN) The Pac-12 Conference has been owned by Oregon and Stanford over the last six seasons. Since conference realignment stretched the conference from 10 teams to 12, thus installing the north and south divisions and a conference championship game, the Ducks and Cardinal have won the conference crown twice