Aryk St up fast

[meangreendork]

LaLa's defensive effort aside, they are absolutely reeling from all the injuries to their best skill players on offense. That's probably the game of the year in the Sun Belt this year (or runner up to ULM/WKU) if both sides come in healthy.

I also wouldn't read too much into how many points/yards ASU put up on Oregon. They were down something like 50-3 midway through the second quarter. Having said that, they certainly have enough good-to-great Sun Belt level skill players to make life difficult on us.

That's true, Oregon basically put everyone including their trainers and probably random students on the field to make it look respectable. Oregon basically took ArkSt to the woodshed, beat them, then found another woodshed and beat them behind that one, too.

[Arkstfan]

The ASU defense is not as good as last year (but we lost 8 starters, one to the NFL draft, three more went free agent so there was obviously some very good talent lost).

If you look at total defense ASU is 52 which is rather out of line with scoring defense ranking of 80. The difference is special teams not defense. ASU has a pretty average defense but special teams errors have led to direct scores and short fields resulting in 31 points given up on the season, but for two missed field goals would be 37. Factor the special team botches out and the scoring defense pulls into line with the total defense numbers.