Arizona State's Late-Season Surge: Can They Knock Off BYU?

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00:00I don't think people, if you said, is Arizona State ranked in the top 25, a lot of people

00:10would say, no, they stink.

00:12They have been coming on really strong here at the end of the season.

00:16And from what I'm reading and sort of seeing on social media here, Bill, this is a game

00:20about motivation.

00:21Is BYU season over?

00:24Like are they going to just throw, I'm not saying they're not going to show up for this

00:27game, Bill, but it seems like that game, you know, a couple of weeks ago, it seems

00:32to me that I just don't know what kind of motivation that they would have knowing that

00:35they still have a shot for the college football playoff, but I'm a little concerned with their

00:40psyche going in.

00:41Right.

00:42And coming, the ball didn't break their way last week.

00:45No pooch pun goes off a player's back.

00:47And this Arizona State team's really hot with Cam Scadaboo, with Sam Levitt, who has three

00:52touchdown passes each of the last three games.

00:55Arizona State's tough at home.

00:57And I think we're barreling toward a situation where we may have the Sun Devils in Colorado.

01:02Colorado plays at Kansas, of course, pair of three and nine teams last year, play for

01:07the Big 12 championship game.

01:08I certainly didn't have that in August.

01:10And I do think Arizona State covers the number here.

01:13And, you know, going back to what you said at the top, when you look at Indiana, Army

01:18and Arizona State, that's three schools that are 24, five and one against the spread this

01:22season.

01:23So I don't know if it's a good idea to bet against any of them this week.

01:26And quick correction, it's Bryson Daly is that Army quarterback.

01:29I don't want to get that wrong and make the Black Knights mad going into the weekend.

01:34Yeah.

01:35You know, ASU is playing great football.

01:36You know, I mean, that's just this is what it is.

01:38But it didn't start off like that, by the way, BYU to make the college football playoff

01:43still three to one and, you know, to win the Big Ten plus 310.

01:48I don't know, Bill.

01:49I mean, do you do you have a path?

01:51I mean, the path has to begin with them beating Arizona State, but that's not going to even

01:54be enough, I don't think.

01:55Well, they got to win, obviously.

01:57And if they don't win, they probably don't make the Big 12 championship game.

02:00Their defense is really good.

02:01They feast off turnovers.

02:03That's a tough assignment going out to Tempe for the first time in 19, since 1997.

02:08And to keep their Big 12 championship hopes alive.