Monday, Sept. 3, 2001 2001 ASU SCHEDULE 2001 ARIZONA STATE FOOTBALL Date Opponent (TV) Time S 8 San Diego State 7 p.m. San Diego State Aztecs at Arizona State Sun Devils S 15 at UCLA(Fox Sports Net) 7:15 p.m. Saturday, September 8 • 7 p.m. PDT S 22 at Stanford 7 p.m. Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, Ariz. S 29 San Jose State 7 p.m. Sun Devil Sports Network O 6 Louisiana-Lafayette 7 p.m. O 13 at USC TBA The Dirk Koetter era begins as Arizona State opens its 89th football season Saturday, O 20 Oregon State TBA September 8, playing host to San Diego State at 7 p.m. at Sun Devil Stadium. The Sun O 27 Washington TBA Devil-Aztec game will be a rematch of last year’s season-opener which the Sun Devils N 3 at Oregon 1:30 p.m. N 10 Washington State TBA won, 10-7, on Aug. 31 at SDSU’s Qualcomm Stadium. Last Thursday, San Diego State N 23 Arizona (Fox Sports Net) 1 p.m. opened their season with a 23-10 loss to Arizona on Aug. 31 in San Diego. Saturday’s game will mark the fifth time in six years that the Sun Devils open the season at home Home Games in Bold with last year’s season-opener at San Diego State being the first road opener since Times listed are Arizona Time (PT prior to Oct. 1995. ASU will also be looking for their third straight victory in a season-opener, a streak 28, MT after Oct. 28) that started in 1999 with a 31-13 win over Texas Tech. After Saturday’s home opener, the Sun Devils hit the road for a pair of Pac-10 2000 ASU SNAPSHOT Conference games at UCLA (Sept. 15) and at Stanford (Sept. 22). ASU will not return Category Stat Pac-10 Rank to Sun Devil Stadium until Sept. 29 when the team plays host to San Jose State. Overall Record 6-6 T5th Pac-10 Record 3-5 T5th In the Series Total Offense 379.3 5th Scoring Offense 26.0 5th Arizona State holds a 7-0-1 advantage in the series with San Diego State including a 2- Rushing Offense 116.3 9th 0 advantage in games played in Tempe. Athough the schools are just 368 miles apart, Passing Offense 262.9 1st prior to last season’s opener, ASU and SDSU had not played each other since 1957. Total Defense 400.3 8th The Sun Devils hold a four-game winning streak in the series including last year’s 10-7 Scoring Defense 24.8 5th win in San Diego on Aug. 31 and shutouts in the three previous contests (66-0 in 1957, Rushing Defense 168.3 8th 61-0 in 1956 and 46-0 in 1955). Arizona State holds a 97-27-2 record (.778) vs. the Passing Defense 232.0 8th teams that make up the two-year-old Mountain West Conference. 2000 ASU RESULTS Exposure Date Opponent Result The Sun Devil Sports Network will carry the game live on its 13-station network includ- A 31 at San Diego State W, 10-7 ing flagship stations XTRA Sports 910 AM and KFYI NewsRadio 550 AM. Tim Healey, S 16 Colorado State W, 13-10 S 23 Utah State W, 44-20 Jeff Van Raaphorst, Vince Marotta, Nathan LaDuke and Doug Plank (pregame and S 30 at UCLA L, 31-38 postgame) will bring the action to Sun Devil fans. The game can also be heard live on O 7 California W, 30-10 ASU’s official web site at www.TheSunDevils.com. There will be no television for the O 14 Washington L, 15-21 San Diego State game. O 21 at Washington State W, 23-20 (ot) O 28 Oregon L, 55-56 (2ot) Series Openers N 4 USC L, 38-44 (2ot) Arizona State’s season-opener vs. San Diego State at Sun Devil Stadium reprises the N 11 at Stanford L, 7-29 N 24 Arizona W, 30-17 first game of last season when the Sun Devils edged the Aztecs 10-7 at SDSU’s D 25 Boston College (Aloha Bowl) L, 10-31 Qualcomm Stadium on Aug. 31. ASU is 60-26-2 (.693) in the first game of a season and has won 12 of its last 15 season openers. The Sun Devils hold a 40-15-1 (.723) record Pac-10 (1996-Present) in home openers including wins in their last two and five of their last six home openers. School O’all Conf. Bowls Washington 41-19 29-11 5 Team Captains Oregon 41-19 24-16 4 ASU’s season-long captains, as selected in a team vote, are senior safety Willie Daniel, Arizona State 37-22 26-14 4 senior center Scott Peters and junior safety Alfred Williams. Head coach Dirk Koetter UCLA 36-23 24-16 3 will also select one game captain per week, and senior linebacker Eric Fields is Arizona 36-24 22-21 2 Koetter’s selection for the San Diego State game. USC 32-29 17-23 1 Stanford 28-29-1 21-19 2 Oregon State 28-30 14-26 2 In Their First Year Washington State 26-32 13-27 1 When the Sun Devils take the field against San Diego State, head coach Dirk Koetter California 21-35 12-28 1 will be looking to join a group of eight former Sun Devil mentors who won the first game of their ASU careers. The last head coach to win his first game at ASU was Larry 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 Marmie who led the Sun Devils to a 21-16 win over Illinois on Sept. 10, 1988 in Tempe. HEAD COACH DIRK KOETTER ASU Hall of Famer Dan Devine turned in the best record for a first-year head coach at ASU, leading the Sun Devils to an 8-2-1 record in 1955. Became Arizona State’s 21st head coach on Dec. 2, 2000 … acts as his own offensive Who’s Back coordinator … a voter in the U S A To d a y The Sun Devils return 51 letterwinners including 16 starters and a pair of kickers in Coaches poll … comes to ASU after three sea- senior punter Nicky Murphy and junior kicker Mike Barth. The offensive starters slat- sons at Boise State where he led the Broncos ed to return are LT Levi Jones, LG Marquise Muldrow, C Scott Peters, RG Kyle Kosier, to a 26-10 record, two appearances in the Humanitarian Bowl and two Big We s t QB Jeff Krohn, TB Tom Pace & Delvon Flowers (Flowers missed last season with an Conference Championships … two-time Big ACL tear) and WR Donnie O’Neal. On defense, returning starters include RE Brian West Conference Coach of the Year … his Montesanto, RT Kurt Wallin, LT Danny Masaniai & Paul Glass (split starts last year), 2000 Boise State team led the nation in scor- LE Terrell Suggs, LB Eric Fields, LB Solomon Bates, S Willie Daniel and S Alfred ing offense, was second in total offense and Williams. ranked fourth in the country in passing offense … guided Boise State to its first winning sea- Peters, Suggs on Lombardi Watch List son in Division I football … is serving as the A preseason All-Pac-10 selection by several publications and ASU’s student-athlete honorary chairman of the National Multiple representative at Pac-10 Media Day, senior offensive lineman Scott Peters is one of Sclerosis Desert Southwest Chapter “Walk on 52 players on the preseason watch list for the 32nd Rotary Lombardi Award. The the Wild Side,” set for Saturday, March 30, Lombardi Award is annually presented to the top lineman in the country with eligibility 2002 … last name is pronounced “Cutter” … limited to down linemen and defenders who line up within five yards of the football. To born February 5, 1959 in Pocatello, Idaho. be eligible for the preseason watch list for the prestigious Lombardi Award, players had to have earned All-American or first-team all-conference honors last year. The Koetter Coaching Career Lombardi Award winner will be announced on December 5 in Houston. Graduate Assistant, Idaho State .. .1 9 8 2 Highland HS (Pocatello, Idaho) .. .1 9 8 3 - 8 4 Last year, Peters started all 12 games at center and earned first-team All-Pac-10 Of fensive Coordinator, San Francisco St. .. .1 9 8 5 accolades. A Freshman All-American in 1998 and an honorable-mention all-confer- Of fensive Coordinator & QBs, UTEP .. .1 9 8 6 - 8 8 ence selection in 1999, Peters has started 33 games in his career. Of fensive Coordinator & QBs, Missouri .. .1 9 8 9 - 9 3 Sophomore defensive end Terrell Suggs has also been added to the watch list for Of fensive Coordinator & QBs, Boston College..1 9 9 4 - 9 5 the Lombardi Award. Last year’s Pac-10 Freshman of the Year and a preseason men- Offensive Coordinator & QBs, Oregon.. .1 9 9 6 - 9 7 Head Coach, Boise State.. .1 9 9 8 - 0 0 tion for all-conference and All-American honors, Suggs became just the second true Head Coach, Arizona State .. .2 0 0 1 - p r e s e n t freshman in school history to start the first game of the year for the Sun Devils last year at San Diego State on Aug.