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2007 Arizona State SUN DEVIL FOOTBALL WEEK 2 - COLORADO Arizona State Sun Devils (1-0, 0-0 Pac-10) vs. Colorado Buffaloes (1-0, 0-0 Big XII) 2007 ASU SCHEDULE Frank Kush Field/Sun Devil Stadium (71,706) • Tempe, Ariz. (Overall: 1-0, Pac-10: 0-0, Home: 1-0, Road: 0-0) 7:15 p.m. MT • FSN • Sun Devil Radio Network Date Opponent (TV) Time/Result S 1 San Jose State W, 45-3 S 8 Colorado (FSN) 7:15 pm Game Two S 15 San Diego State (FSNAZ) 7:00 pm Dennis Erickson Goes For Career Win #150 S 22 Oregon State 7:00 pm S 29 at Stanford TBA Coming off a 45-3 opening night victory over the San Jose State Spartans, Arizona State O 6 at Washington State TBA O 13 Washington TBA welcomes the Colorado Buffaloes to Tempe on Saturday night, September 8. Colorado O 27 12/12 California (FSN) 7:00 pm enters the contest 1-0 after a 31-28 overtime victory over Colorado State last week in Denver. N 3 at Oregon (FSNAZ) 3:30 pm ASU coach Dennis Erickson will go after career NCAA coaching victory #150 on Saturday. It N 10 at 14/17 UCLA TBA will be the 215th college game Erickson has coached. Last week against the Spartans, Ryan N 22 1/1 USC (ESPN) 6 pm Torain ran for 123 yards and three touchdowns, while Rudy Carpenter threw for 197 yards D 1 Arizona (ESPN/2) 6 pm and two touchdowns to lead the Sun Devils to the victory. Home Games in Bold Times listed are local to site & subject to change - Arizona is on PT prior to November 4, MT after November 4. ON THE AIR: The Sun Devil Sports Network will carry all 12 of ASU's football games live (Rankings are AP/USA Today) on its 10-station radio network, including flagship station Sports 620 KTAR AM. Tim Healey (play-by-play) and former Sun Devil quarterback Jeff Van Raaphorst (color analyst) will call 2007 ASU QUICK FACTS the action, while Amy Bender will provide sideline reports during home games. Location ............................................. Tempe, Ariz. Enrollment .................................................. 63,278 Nickname ............................................. Sun Devils LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: Fox Sports Net will televise the contest with the Buffaloes Colors ........................................... Maroon & Gold to a national audience. Barry Tompkins and Petros Papadakis will call the action with Jim Conference ............................................ Pacific-10 Watson patrolling the sidelines. University President ................ Dr. Michael Crow Vice President/Athletics ...................... Lisa Love SUN DEVILS VS. BUFFALOES: Saturday will be the second meeting between Arizona Stadium .................................... Frank Kush Field/ State and Colorado. The Sun Devils won the previous meeting 21-3 last season in Boulder. .................................... Sun Devil Stadium (71,706) Head Coach ................................. Dennis Erickson Career Record ...................... 149-65-1 (19th year) ASU vs. The Big 12: The Sun Devils are 3-2 all-time against opponents from the Big 12 Lettermen Returning/Lost .......................... 46/18 Conference, which began play in 1996. The Devils hold wins over Colorado, Nebraska and Off./Def. Starters Returning ......................... 10/6 Texas Tech. They fell to Nebraska and Kansas State in the 2002 Holiday Bowl. 2007 ASU SNAPSHOT SAN JOSE STATE RECAP: The Dennis Erickson era of Sun Devil football got off on the Category Stat Pac-10 right foot, as Arizona State jumped on San Jose State early and never looked back, grabbing Overall Record 1-0 T-1st Pac-10 Record 0-0 T-2nd a 45-3 victory on opening night. Ryan Torain picked up right where he left off in 2006, rushing Total Offense 520.0 2nd 17 times for 123 yards and three scores in just over one half of work. Rudy Carpenter turned Scoring Offense 45.0 T-2 in a precision performance, going 14-20 for 197 yards and two scores. The ASU defense was Passing Offense 270.0 3rd dominant, holding the Spartans to 115 total yards while forcing two turnovers and sacking the Rushing Offense 250.0 4th quarterback three times. The Sun Devils spread the wealth, as 11 different receivers caught Total Defense 115 1st passes from two different quarterbacks, and four running backs earned carries in the win. Scoring Defense 3.0 1st Rushing Defense 40.0 3rd Passing Defense 75.0 1st WHAT TO WATCH FOR Punt Returns 11.5 5th • Junior Rudy Carpenter needs seven more yards for 5,000 career passing yards. Kickoff Returns 21.0 6th • Senior Ryan Torain ranks 13th nationally and second in the Pac-10 among returning 2007 PAC-10 STANDINGS runners after recording the top rushing season by a Sun Devil in the Pac-10 era. School P10 All Next Game (Date) • A win against the Buffaloes would give ASU its fourth 2-0 start in the past five seasons. UCLA (14/17) 1-0 1-0 BYU (9/8) • Arizona State's remaining opponents currently have a 7-3 combined record. Arizona St. 0-0 1-0 Colorado (9/8) • The Colorado game will be the first of six games currently scheduled to be televised. USC (1/1) 0-0 1-0 at Nebraska (9/15) • Senior WR Rudy Burgess is the only active player in the Pac-10 Conference to have Cal (12/12) 0-0 1-0 at Colorado St. (9/8) surpassed 1,000 yards rushing and receiving during his career. OSU 0-0 1-0 at Cincinnati (9/6) • ASU’s offensive line includes fi ve players who earned their undergraduate degrees this Oregon 0-0 1-0 at Michigan (9/8) past spring. Washington 0-0 1-0 Boise State (9/8) Wash. State 0-0 0-1 San Diego St. (9/8) • ASU has not suffered back-to-back losing seasons in 59 years, the fourth longest active Arizona 0-0 0-1 NAU (9/8) streak in the nation. Stanford 0-1 0-1 San Jose St. (9/15) Contacts: Mark Brand ([email protected]) Randy Policar ([email protected]) ICA Media Relations Office, P.O. Box 872505, Tempe, AZ 85287 Phone: (480) 965-6592 • Fax: (480) 965-5408 WWW.THESUNDEVILS.COM • SUNDEVILGRIDIRON.COM DENNIS ERICKSON & TEAM NOTES ASU vs. San Jose State Notes: HEAD COACH DENNIS ERICKSON • Arizona State moved to 66-27-2 all-time in season openers and 46-15-1 when opening On Dec. 11, 2006, Arizona State named Dennis Erickson the year at home. It's the seventh straight home opener victory and the 11th in the past 12 its 22nd football coach as it readied for its 30th year in years. Pacific-10 Conference play. • The three touchdowns for Torain marked the fi rst multi-TD game of his ASU career. • ASU did not punt until the 6:11 mark of the third quarter. A two-time national champion (1989 and 1991), a two- time winner of the Pac-10 Coach of the Year Award (1988 and 2000) and The Sporting News National Coach Century Mark: Including the fi nal two games of the 2006 season and the opener against San Jose of the Year in 2000. Erickson, met up with the school that State, Ryan Torain has now surpassed the 100-yard rushing mark in three consecutive games, a could complete his bowl victory cycle, with wins in the feat matched by only four other Sun Devils dating back to 1993. It was the fi fth time in his career he Fiesta, Sugar and Orange in your career. topped 100 yards, making him the 23rd all-time Sun Devil to record at least fi ve 100-yard rushing Coach Erickson is 11th on the active career coaching games. ASU is now 246-49-5 when they have a rusher gain at least 100 yards. list with 149 victories. In fact, the second he signed his contract he became the Pac-10 leader in active wins, Offensive Effi ciency: Last week against San Jose State, the starting offense put together one of and six of the coaches have less than a third of his the most effi cient performances in recent memory. Playing just over a half, Rudy Carpenter and victories. Victories over the top-ranked team (three), wins the offense made fi ve trips into the red zone, resulting in fi ve scores and they converted eight of over ranked teams (26)…all notes and achievements the Sun Devils have the opportunity to grasp almost each nine third down conversions and totaled 38 points. Carpenter fi nished the game 14-20 for 197 with and every season. two TD tosses, while Ryan Torain carried the ball 17 times for 123 yards and three scores. Both Carpenter and Torain came out of the game with 10 minutes remaining in the third quarter with the Coach Erickson, who is 149-65-1 (.695) in his 18 Devils up 38-3. seasons as a head coach, is known in the Pac-10 as the architect of one of college football’s biggest turnarounds when he coached at Oregon State from 1999-2002. He Dominant Defense: Arizona State put on a defense show on Saturday, limiting the San Jose State led the Beavers, who had not had a winning season offense to 115 total yards. It was the lowest total allowed by an ASU defense since Sept. 18, 2004, since 1970, to a 7-5 record in his first season and then when they held #12 Iowa to 100 yards (56 rushing, 44 passing). The Spartans ran for 40 yards and grabbed the attention of the college football world with threw for 75. The Devil defense forced two interceptions and only allowed San Jose State to cross an 11-1 mark in 2000, which was punctuated by a 41-9 the 50-yard line three times.