Devils Still Undefeated; Number 8 in first BCS ranking

The Devils took care of business Saturday night against Washington and have now officially beat all the teams they were supposed to beat. After their upcoming bye week, the soft part of their schedule officially ends.

The match-up with Cal on Oct. 27 was supposed to be a premiere match-up of undefeated teams but unfortunately Cal did not deliver on their part of the bargain. Sure their starting QB was hurt but legit top 5 teams are supposed to overcome those type of things against weaker competition, particularly on their home field. Way to screw up an opportunity to be number 1 Cal and hand the top spot to an overrated and undeserving Ohio State. People want to say ASU is overrated because we haven't beaten anyone yet, but Ohio State has beaten an even more unimpressive schedule of nobodies.

I'm trying to be realistic about ASU. Here's my realistic prediction -- 3-2 over the next five games with wins against Cal, UCLA and U of A with losses to Oregon and USC. 10-2 record results in trip to Holiday Bowl.

Suddenly the Pac 10 conference is up for grabs

Now that Stanford has pulled off the upset of the year -- apologies to Appalachian State, aka the "other" ASU -- the Pac-10 has a wide-open football race.

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.

I think the officiating crew tried to make it up to the Cougs with a bogus roughing the kicker call against ASU in the 3rd quarter but even that went ASU's way. Justin Tryon ran an interception back for TD on the very next play. Btw JT, that taunting crap you pulled on the run into the end zone was completely bush.

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.