With the college football season a little further than halfway through the season and with that being said a new Saturday is upon which means a brand new slate of games, the one we are focusing on this week is the Arizona State Sun Devils taking on the Utah Utes in Utah at Rice-Eccles Stadium.
Going into the game ASU had a record of 2-5 while Utah had a record of 6-1. Everybody was expecting a win from Utah but the Sun Devils had been putting up a fight with their opponents recently, especially after coming off a win against Washington State. So this game was pretty much a mystery on who was going to win even though stats and the rosters in general were proving otherwise.
The game got off to a quick start with Utah scoring a touchdown on just their first drive, ASU is known to have a good defense so seeing them picked apart like this in just the first drive of the game worried some of the ASU fans that attended the game. ASU couldn’t get anything going in the first drive and ended up punting back to the Utes just for them to go down and score another touchdown putting them up 14-0. The Sun Devils wide receiver Elijah Badger tried to get something going and took the kickoff turn he received down to about the 25 and it led to an ASU field goal making the score 14-3 in favor of the Utes. Utah just kept rolling throughout the entire game but at half, Utah was winning the game 24-3 going into the locker room.
Utah and their stampede of a game did not end at the half but they continued to run up the score and ASU’s defense simply could not stop them on offense. At the end of the 3rd quarter, ASU still could not get anything going on offense and they ended up trailing at the end of the third 34-3. You could tell the morale of the team was plummeting which ultimately led to more Utah scores and a bigger lead for them on Arizona State and they ended up the game-winning 55-3 sending ASU packing to head back to the valley with a brutal loss ahead of three big games at the tail end of Arizona States schedules against UCLA, #6 in the country Oregon, and their rival the University of Arizona.
