2004 Arizona State Football
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2004 ARIZONA STATE FOOTBALL No. 16/12 Iowa Hawkeyes (2-0) vs. Arizona State Sun Devils (2-0) Saturday, September 18, 2004 • 7 p.m. Arizona Time (PDT) Sun Devil Stadium (73,379) • Tempe, Ariz. FSN Arizona/Sun Devil Sports Network Monday, September 13, 2004 Coming off a 31-20 victory at Northwestern last Saturday, the Arizona State football team returns to Sun Devil Stadium this week, playing host to the No. 16/12 Iowa 2004 ASU SCHEDULE Hawkeyes (2-0) on Saturday, Sept. 18. Saturday’s game kicks off at 7 p.m. and will be Date Opponent (TV) Time televised regionally by FSN Arizona. With last week’s victory over the Wildcats, the Sun S 2 UTEP (FSN AZ) W, 41-9 Devils snapped a three-game road losing streak and earned their sixth win in eight tries S 11 at Northwestern (ESPN2) W, 31-20 against an opponent from the Big Ten Conference. This week, the team will be looking S 18 #16/12 Iowa (FSN AZ) 7 p.m. to improve to 3-0 on the year for the first time since 2000 and avenge a 21-2 loss to the S 25 Oregon State (FSN AZ) 7 p.m. O 2 at Oregon TBA Hawkeyes in Iowa City last year. Iowa is 2-0 after opening the season with a win over O 16 at #1/1 USC TBA Kent State on Sept. 4 and a 17-10 victory against Iowa State last week. O 23 UCLA TBA With 47 returning letterwinners and 14 returning starters, fourth-year head coach O 30 at #10/10 California TBA Dirk Koetter’s Sun Devils have been picked to finish sixth in the Pac-10 by the league’s N 6 Stanford 4:30 p.m. media. Following this week’s matchup with the Hawkeyes, ASU opens the Pac-10 N 13 Washington State TBA N 26 at Arizona (FSN) 1 p.m. Conference slate next weekend by playing host to the Oregon State Beavers (0-2), a team picked to finish fourth in the league, Saturday, Sept. 25 at Sun Devil Stadium Home Games in Bold Times listed are Arizona Time (PT prior to Oct. Exposure 31, MT after Oct. 31) & subject to change. Fox Sports Net Arizona will televise the Iowa game to a regional cable audience with 2004 ASU QUICK FACTS Tom Dillon (play-by-play) and former Sun Devil quarterback and College Football Hall Location........................................Tempe, Ariz. of Famer Danny White (color analyst) calling the action. The game will also be part of Enrollment ..............................................45,693 the ESPN Game Plan package with ESPN Regional carrying the Iowa telecast. Nickname..........................................Sun Devils The Sun Devil Sports Network will carry all 11 of ASU’s football games live on its Colors........................................Maroon & Gold 12-station radio network including flagship stations KTAR 620 AM and ESPN Radio 860 Conference........................................Pacific-10 AM in Phoenix. Tim Healey (play-by-play), former Sun Devil quarterback Jeff Van President ..............................Dr. Michael Crow Director of Athletics ....................Gene Smith Raaphorst (color analyst) and Paul Calvisi (pregame and postgame) will bring the action Stadium ................................Frank Kush Field/ to Sun Devil fans. Calvisi will also provide reports from the ASU sidelines during home ..............................Sun Devil Stadium (73,379) games. ASU games can also be heard live on the Sun Devils’ official web site at Head Coach ..................................Dirk Koetter www.TheSunDevils.com. Career Record ........................45-30 (7th year) At ASU ......................................19-20 (4th year) Lettermen Returning/Lost......................47/15 In the Series Off./Def. Starters Returning ......................7/7 Arizona State holds a 1-1 record in the series with Iowa with the Hawkeyes earning a 21-2 victory over the Sun Devils on Sept. 20 of last year at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, 2004 PAC-10 STANDINGS Iowa. Iowa held Arizona State to just 12 first downs and 184 yards of total offense in School Conf. O’all Next Game (Date) that game. ASU won the first meeting between the two schools with a 17-7 victory on ASU 0-0 2-0 Iowa (9/18) Cal 0-0 2-0 Southern Miss. (9/16) Dec. 31, 1997 in the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. ASU tailback Michael Martin was the Stanford 0-0 2-0 USC (9/25) MVP in that game, turning in 27 carries for 169 yards and one touchdown to lead ASU USC 0-0 2-0 at BYU (9/18) to the bowl win. Arizona 0-0 1-1 Wisconsin (9/18) UCLA 0-0 1-1 at Washington (9/18) Sun Devils vs. the Big Ten WSU 0-0 1-1 Idaho (9/18) Oregon 0-0 0-1 at Oklahoma (9/18) Arizona State holds an11-5 record against teams from the Big Ten Conference and has UW 0-0 0-1 UCLA (9/18) won six of its last eight contests against Big Ten schools, including last week’s 31-20 OSU 0-0 0-2 New Mexico (9/18) victory at Northwestern. ASU’s stretch of six wins in eight tries dates back to a Sept. 13, 1986 victory over Michigan State in that year’s season opener at Sun Devil Stadium. 2003 ASU RESULTS This weekend is the second of back-to-back games against opponents from the Big Date Opponent Result Ten for the Sun Devils, while ASU’s game with Iowa is the one of five games that have S 6 Northern Arizona W, 34-14 S 13 Utah State W, 26-16 pitted Pac-10 and Big Ten teams over the last two weeks with ASU downing NU, Oregon S 20 at #18/14 Iowa (ESPN2) L, 2-21 falling to Indiana and UCLA winning at Illinois last week and ASU playing host to the S 27 at Oregon State (Fox) L, 17-45 Hawkeyes and Arizona taking on Wisconsin this week. O 4 #10/10 USC (ABC) L, 17-37 O 11 Oregon (ABC) W, 59-14 Last Time Out O 18 at North Carolina W, 33-31 O 25 at UCLA (Fox) L, 13-20 A forced fumble by senior safety Riccardo Stewart late in the fourth quarter allowed the N 1 California L, 23-51 Arizona State Sun Devils to overcome a late surge by the Northwestern Wildcats and N 8 at Stanford L, 27-38 come away with the 30-21 victory last week in Evanston, Ill. N 15 at #8/8 WSU (ABC) L, 19-34 N 28 Arizona (Fox) W, 28-7 www.TheSunDevils.com Contacts: Mark Brand ([email protected]) & Rhonda Lundin ([email protected]) ICA Media Relations Office, P.O. Box 872505, Tempe, AZ 85287 (480) 965-6592 • Fax: (480) 965-5408 DIRK KOETTER & TEAM NOTES Trading punts to begin the game, the Sun Devils pinned the Wildcats deep in their HEAD COACH DIRK KOETTER own territory and used a 34-yard punt return by redshirt freshman Rudy Burgess to set up a 20-yard field goal from sophomore Jesse Ainsworth which put ASU ahead 3-0. In his fourth season at the helm of the Arizona State program…acts as his own offensive coor- Northwestern answered as the second quarter began, using two straight long dinator…the Sun Devils have averaged 30.9 rushes by tailback Noah Herron, the second stretching for nine yards and a TD. With points per game in Koetter’s three-plus years at 14:32 left in the first half, Northwestern held their only lead of the game, 7-3. ASU (1205 points, 39 games)…his team has been After a botched fake punt by the Wildcats, senior Andrew Walter connected with ranked in the top 20 in the nation in passing junior Derek Hagan on a 47-yard touchdown pass, capping a four-play, 60-yard drive offense in each of the last two years (20th in and giving the Sun Devils the lead back at 10-7. Hagan finished the game with eight 2003 and ninth in 2002)…led the Sun Devils to an 8-6 record, a third-place Pac-10 finish and a berth catches for 154 yards and a pair of TDs, his fifth straight 100-yard receiving game. in the 2002 Pacific Life Holiday Bowl…his 2002 With time running down in the half, the Sun Devils used a balanced attack to team ranked ninth in the nation in passing score their second touchdown. Sophomore Loren Wade ran the ball 16 yards to set offense and 20th in scoring offense…a voter in up a 41-yard pass from Walter to Hagan for the score and a 17-7 halftime lead. Wade the USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll…became collected 108 yards on a career-best 24 rushes in the game. Arizona State’s 21st head coach on Dec. 2, In the second half, Wade ran the ball five times and Walter completed three pass- 2000…his 2001 ASU offense finished 25th in the country in total offense and tied for 19th in es in ASU’s first drive, including a 30-yard TD pass play to sophomore Terry Richarson scoring offense…had the third-longest winning to give ASU a 24-7 lead with 8:56 remaining in the third. Richardson hauled in five streak in the country with eight consecutive catches for 65 yards and a touchdown on the day. wins (his last seven at Boise State and his season The Wildcats then took advantage of a couple of big plays to swing the momen- opener at ASU) before falling at Stanford on tum back in their favor.