There are now only three unbeaten teams in conference play - Cal, UCLA and ASU. Cal clearly is the favorite now and may very well be the number two team in the country on Sunday. If ASU takes care of business next week against Washington in Tempe and Cal does the same against Oregon State and UCLA, all eyes will be on the Cal-ASU match-up on Oct 27. Will Corso and the ESPN gameday crew possibly make a trip down to Tempe?
I'm probably getting way too ahead of myself here. If ASU plays like they did today against Washington State, they wont beat UW. This is a good Huskie squad Ty Willingham has and they have something to prove after barely losing to USC last week.
ASU was lucky to leave Pullman with their 23-20 win. If anyone watched the game (my condolences for enduring the torture that is the FSN broadcast crew of Barry Tompkins and Petros Papadakis) you repeatedly saw the non-TD call that went against the Cougars in the first half. If that catch is ruled a TD, like it probably should have been, then ASU probably doesn't win the game.
It wasn't pretty, but the Sun Devils are 6-0 and escaped a hostile environment with a 'W'. In the end, that's all that matters. Also the fact that Bill Doba got his words shoved down his throat was quite refreshing to see. Being on the wrong end of a comparison to UofA is not something Sun Devil nation takes lightly and if Doba is still with the Cougs next season when they visit Tempe, I'm sure he will be reminded of it over and over again.
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I wouldn't get to high and mighty Phil. Had it not been for a "gimme" interception for touchdown, and a clear TD over ruled by replay officials, the "words being shoved down the throat" could have been you eating crow. If this is the best ASU can play against the supposed cellar-dwellers, your number "18" angels will have a tough time with your remaining 5 of 6 games. Congrats on the win, but don't paint yourself in to a verbal corner.
Check the latest, we're ranked number 14 now. Note I did say that we probably don't win the game if that call doesn't go ASU's way. Bad calls are part of the game (particularly when Pac10 officials are involved) and ASU has has plenty not go their way over the past few seasons. It was early enough in the game were WSU could have overcome it, seeing as how they were up against a team of lesser talent than UofA.
I still think SC is going to take it all. They'll have the FLA one loss like last year. This will be the motivation they need.....BCS always works out weird....
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