alz wrote:

A title is a title. And don't sell yourself short. Stanford isn't unbeatable, though they seem that way to Oregon.

You might be pac 12 champions. Who put money on that before the season? Winner what odds that would get you?

Not having Oregon on the schedule this year helped. At the beginning of the year, I thought if ASU got any kind of defense at all, they might win the weaker South division. Turns out the last three weeks the defense has been playing better than the offense, which except for the first half of the UCLA game has been sputtering.
It's all in their hands now. Beat UofA at home, get Stanford at home. Beat Stanford at home, travel back to Pasadena. Lose to UofA, go to Palo Alto and get creamed, and then it's back to the Idaho Potato Bowl.
 

tkihshbt wrote:

Don't sell ASU short; the worst case is that they are playing in the Sun Bowl.

Who wouldn't want to be in El Paso in late December?
In all sincerity, I'm deeply concerned about the UofA game. Set aside the notion this game is annually UofA's Rose Bowl, Super Bowl, New Year's Eve and Tet holiday all at once. Their offense made Oregon's defense look really, really bad on Saturday (sorry, Alz).
I'm buoyed a bit by the notion the Sun Devils have bigger guys in the middle of the D-line than the Ducks do, and ASU has played the run pretty well since the USC game, but they got worn down in the second half of the UCLA game. ASU's offense has to keep the ball better so Carey won't be on the field. And Denker isn't anyone's All-American, but he makes enough plays to support Carey that they keep the chains moving.
One thing I've learned in the last 30 years is that whenever you start thinking optimistically about an Arizona State football team, they snatch away your hopes, dreams and aspirations, almost always in a most grisly manner.