2000 Arizona State Football
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Monday, November 6, 2000 2000 ASU Schedule Date Opponent (TV) Time 2000 ARIZONA STATE FOOTBALL A 31 at San Diego St. (ESPN2) W, 10-7 S 16 #26/25 Colorado St. (Fox/3) W, 13-10 Arizona State Sun Devils at Stanford Cardinal S 23 Utah State (Fox/3) W, 44-20 Saturday, November 11, 2000 • 3 p.m. MST/2 p.m. PST S 30 at #15/17 UCLA (Fox) L, 31-38 Stanford Stadium • Palo Alto, Calif. O 7 California (Fox) W, 30-10 Sun Devil Sports Network O 14 #11/10 Washington (Fox) L, 15-21 O 21 at Washington State W, 23-20 (ot) Coming off their NCAA-record third consecutive overtime game and the second double- (Fox AZ-TD) overtime defeat in as many weeks in a 44-38 loss to USC last weekend, the Arizona O 28 #7/10 Oregon (ABC) L, 55-56 (2ot) State Sun Devils hit the road for their final two games of the season, heading to Palo N 4 USC L, 38-44 (2ot) Alto, Calif., to take on the Stanford Cardinal Saturday, Nov. 4. Kickoff is slated for 3 p.m. N 11 at Stanford 3 p.m. (2 p.m. PST) N 24 at Arizona (Fox) 3 p.m. Mountain Time and 2 p.m. Pacific Time at Stanford Stadium. Needing just one more vic- tory to become bowl eligible for the fourth time in five seasons and looking to snap a Home Games in Bold two-game losing streak, the Sun Devils enter Saturday’s game with a 5-4 overall record Fox - Fox Sports Net and a 2-4 league mark which puts the team into a three-way tie for sixth place in the Fox/3 - Fox Sports Arizona on KTVK Channel 3 Fox AZ-TD - Fox Sports Arizona tape delay Pac-10 with Cal and Stanford. Stanford has lost two straight games and brings a 3-6 Rankings are AP/USA Today at time of game. overall record and a 2-4 league mark into Saturday’s game. Times listed are Arizona Time (PDT prior to Oct. 29, MST after Oct. 29) In the Series Arizona State leads the all-time series with Stanford 11-5 including a 5-2 advantage in 2000 Pac-10 Standings Palo Alto, Calif. The Sun Devils have won six of the last eight contests, while the Pac- School Conf. O’all Next Game (Date) 10 Champion and Rose Bowl-bound Cardinal took home a 50-30 victory last year at Sun Oregon 6-0 8-1 California (11/ 11 ) Devil Stadium. ASU has also earned victories in the last three games at Stanford OSU 5-1 8-1 at Arizona (11/ 11 ) Stadium and six of the last seven with the last Stanford home victory coming in 1988. UW 5-1 8-1 UCLA(11/11) Arizona 3-3 5-4 Oregon State (11/ 11 ) ASU head coach Bruce Snyder is 5-5-1 all time vs. the Cardinal, including a 5-2 record UCLA 3-3 6-3 at Washington (11/11) at ASU, while Stanford boss Tyrone Willingham is 2-3 vs. the Sun Devils. ASU 2-4 5-4 at Stanford (11/11) Stanford 2-4 3-6 ASU (11/11) Exposure Cal 2-4 3-6 at Oregon (11/11) There will be no live television for the game. The Sun Devil Sports Network will carry the WSU 1-5 3-6 at USC (11/11) game live on its 12-station network on XTRA910 AM and KFYI 550 AM. Tim Healey, Jeff USC 1-5 4-5 Washington St. (11/11) Van Raaphorst, Vince Marotta and Doug Plank (pregame and postgame) will bring the action to Sun Devil fans. The game can be heard live on ASU’s official web site at Last Week in the Pac-10 www.TheSunDevils.com. @ Washington 35, Arizona 32 Oregon State 38, @ California 32 Oregon 27, @ Washington State 24 (ot) Stanford Connections @ UCLA37, Stanford 35 First-year running backs coach Vincent White is a 1984 graduate of Stanford, starring at USC 44, @ Arizona State 38 (2ot) tailback for the Cardinal from 1979-82. In 1982 as a senior, White led the nation in receiving with nearly seven catches a game and turned in 15 touchdowns and 1,275 all- Pac-10 (1996-Present) purpose years en route to first-team All-Pac-10 and honorable-mention All-America School O’all Conf. Bowls accolades. Oregon 38-18 23-15 3 Washington 38-19 27-11 4 What Time Is It Anyway? Arizona State 36-20 25-13 3 The state of Arizona never changes its clocks, remaining on Mountain Standard Time all Arizona 35-22 20-18 2 year. With the time change on October 29, Arizona is now on Mountain Standard Time, UCLA 35-20 24-14 2 meaning that Saturday’s game in Palo Alto, Calif., will start at 3 p.m. Mountain and 2 USC 30-27 17-22 1 Stanford 26-29-1 19-19 2 p.m. Pacific Time. Oregon State 25-29 12-26 1 Washington State 24-31 12-26 1 Last Time Out California 21-33 12-26 1 For the third consecutive week, Arizona State’s game went to overtime and for the sec- ond straight week, the Sun Devils lost a heart-breaking double-overtime game, this time falling to the USC Trojans 44-38 at Sun Devil Stadium. In the second overtime period, USC’s Chad Pierson scored on a 2-yard run, ASU sophomore Mike Pinkard blocked John Wall's PAT kick and USC ended the game with a fumble recovery to snap a five- game losing streak, the team’s longest in nine years. In the first overtime, sophomore Mike Barth kicked his third field goal – a 27-yarder – and Wall tied it with a 23-yarder. 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 BRUCE SNYDER & TEAM NOTES Barth also hit a 28-yard field goal in the first quarter and a 45-yarder in the third. HEAD COACH BRUCE SNYDER Arizona State mounted what is believed to be the largest comeback in school his- tory to send the game to overtime, scoring 29 unanswered points to overcome USC’s In his ninth season at the helm of ASU’s 35-6 third quarter lead. ASU scored four touchdowns in the final 15:46 of regulation football program ... second only to Frank and capped their comeback when senior quarterback Griffin Goodman, who replaced Kush in wins at Arizona State ... his 14 years freshman starter Jeff Krohn who suffered a cut thumb in the third quarter, threw a 2- as a head coach in the Pac-10 is matched point conversion pass to junior Donnie O'Neal, who caught a 32-yard scoring pass by only Dick Tomey among current Pac-10 from Goodman with 4:21 left. Goodman threw a 45-yard pass to Tom Pace for one coaches ... has led the Sun Devils to 40 touchdown, Pace ran three yards for another and Shaun McDonald scored on an 81- wins in their last 61 games and three bowl yard punt return – the fourth-longest in Arizona State history. appearances in the last four years ... in 1996, guided the Sun Devils to their second Back-to-Back in the Pac-10 Pac-10 championship, fourth undefeated With back-to-back double-overtime losses to Oregon and USC, Arizona State dropped regular season and second Rose Bowl ... back-to-back conference games for just the second time in the last four seasons. the consensus National Coach of the Year in Earlier this season, the Sun Devils rebounded from a loss at UCLAin the team’s Pac- 1996 as well as Pac-10 Coach of the Year ... 10 opener with a 30-10 win over Cal and then came back from a 21-15 loss to ... during his 20-year head coaching career, Washington with a 23-20 overtime victory at Washington State. Since 1995, the Sun he has had 90 players go on to the NFL, 62 Devils’ only other back-to-back Pac-10 losses came at Oregon and at Arizona to end All-Americans and 67 first-team all-confer- the 1998 season. ence players ... his contract with ASU has been extended through 2004. In Overtime Snyder Coaching Career With an NCAA-record three consecutive overtime games this season, Arizona State Sheldon High School (Eugene, Ore.) ..........1963 now holds a 3-2 record in overtime since the rule was instituted in 1996. Before this Assistant Coach, Oregon........................1964-71 season, the Sun Devils had not played more than one overtime game in a given year. Assistant Coach, New Mexico St.................1972 This season, six Pac-10 games have gone into overtime, matching the high of six for Assistant Coach, Utah State........................1973 the league in 1996. Washington State has also played in three overtime contests this Assistant Coach, USC ............................1974-75 season, while at least one league game has gone into overtime in each of the last four Head Coach, Utah State ........................1976-82 weeks. Other than 1996, the most OT contests in one season in the Pac-10 has been Assistant Coach, L.A. Rams ..................1983-86 three. Here's a look at Pac-10 overtime records since 1996: Head Coach, California ..........................1987-91 Head Coach, Arizona State ............1992-present Oregon 5-3 Washington 1-1 California 3-1 Oregon State 1-1 Snyder Head Coaching Record UCLA 3-1 Stanford 1-1 Overall: 125-104-5 (.545), 21st year Arizona State 3-2 USC 2-3 Arizona State: 57-43 (.570), 9th year Arizona 2-2 Washington State 1-4 California: 29-24-4 (.544), 5 years Utah State: 39-37-1 (.513), 7 years Setting the Pace Junior Tom Pace, a walk-on who was awarded a scholarship by head coach Bruce Most Wins, ASU Head Coaches Snyder last week, leads the Sun Devil team in rushing, gaining 525 yards and four 1.