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ASU Football: Sun Devils fall into trap vs. Oregon State

by Adam Stites - November 16, 2014

(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: Oregon State Preview

by Matt Harden - November 15, 2014

(Photo: Allyson Cummings/WCSN) The No. 6 Arizona State Sun Devils (8-1, 5-1 Pac-12 South) head to Corvallis Saturday to take on the Oregon State Beavers (4-5, 1-5 Pac-12 North). The Sun Devils are riding high coming off one of the best wins in program history after defeating Notre Dame at home. The

ASU Football: Sun Devils prep for creative Oregon State offense

by Jacob Garcia - November 13, 2014

(Photo: Allyson Cummings/WCSN) Say the words, “Oregon State football,” and images of an offense torching opponents through the airwaves are bound to surface. After all, this was the team that was third in all of college football with 372.6 passing yards per game a year ago. Quarterback Sean Mannion was second in the

ASU Football: Sun Devils trying to focus to avoid trap game

by Adam Stites - November 12, 2014

(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

by Adam Stites - November 12, 2014November 12, 2014

(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

by Adam Stites - November 11, 2014November 11, 2014

(Photo: Sun Devil Athletics) The Arizona State Sun Devils are on the doorstep of inclusion in the four-team group that is slated to advance to the first-ever College Football Playoff, as the team moved up three spots into the No. 6 slot in the latest rankings released by the CFB Playoff

ASU Football: Stock Up, Stock Down on ten offensive players

by Jacob Garcia - November 11, 2014

(Photo: Allyson Cummings/WCSN) The Arizona State football team has grinded its way through the murderers’ row portion of its 2014 schedule with resume-building wins over USC, Stanford, Utah and Notre Dame and a character-building win over Washington. The fact is that the Sun Devils have set themselves up nicely for a trip

ASU Football: Sun Devils take down Fighting Irish

by Adriana Torres - November 9, 2014November 10, 2014

(Photo: Allyson Cummings/WCSN) WCSN football reporter Adriana Torres recaps No. 9 Arizona State's monumental win over No. 10 Notre Dame.

ASU Football: Offense comes up clutch after lull…again

by Adam Stites - November 8, 2014November 8, 2014

(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

by Adam Stites - November 8, 2014November 8, 2014

(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