USC is coming to Tempe after losing big to Oregon. The Sun Devils have a 9 game losing streak against USC and unless the we play a perfect game that streak is going to continue. By “perfect game” I mean no turn-overs, establish the running game, play excellent defense and I don’t know, start someone else at quarterback! We have our work cut out for us. From statepress.com; ”And if ASU wants to beat USC for the first time since 1999, it will have to start faster. The Sun Devil offense fell behind by at least 14 points before scoring its first touchdown for the second consecutive week against Cal and currently ranks seventh or lower in the conference in every major offensive category. We’re just not consistent, [and] we’re digging ourselves in a hole to start the game,” Sullivan said. “We’re leaving ourselves in tougher third-down situations — third-and-nine to 11. That’s hard. We do fine when we get in manageable third downs, but we haven’t been doing that.” Sully, Sully. It was cool to see Samson Szakacsy take a couple of snaps last Saturday and maybe, hopefully we will see the same against USC. “Another player that could also weave his way into more game action is sophomore quarterback Samson Szakacsy, who recorded his first pass attempt, completion and touchdown on the same play in the second quarter when he was inserted into the game inside the Cal 5-yard line and found senior tight end Jovon Williams in the end zone on the first play of the drive. If his arm was totally healthy, it’d be different, because he gives you a little bit of a different dimension,” Erickson said. “But [the arm strength is] not there, so we’ve just got to kind of pick and choose what we do with him. We’ll continue to use him in a limited basis — goal-line [and] short-yardage [situations] — [and we’ll] do some option stuff with him and try to take advantage of his athletic ability.” We have an uphill battle ahead of us. ASU needs to win two of the next four games to be bowl eligible.
