2024-09-02 02:00:02
The Arizona State football team opened its 2024 schedule with a game against the Wyoming Cowboys on Saturday, Aug. 31.
And it opened it with a bang.
ASU football intercepted the first pass of the game and returned it for a touchdown and never looked back in a 48-7 win at Mountain America Stadium in Tempe.
The Sun Devils took a 7-0 lead on Wyoming with a 29-yard interception return for a touchdown by Zyrus Fiaseu less than a minute into the game, one of two defensive touchdowns in the game for ASU and one of three takeaways for the Sun Devils.
ASU absolutely dominated Wyoming, holding the Cowboys to 118 total yards in the game, 74 of which came on Wyoming’s final drive of the game.
Arizona State picked up 499 yards of total offense.
ASU had 27 first downs in the game, Wyoming had eight. The Sun Devils had the ball for 37:04 in the game, compared to 22:56 for the Cowboys.
QB Sam Leavitt finished the game 14-for-22 passing for 258 yards and two touchdowns for ASU. He also rushed eight times for 47 yards in his first start for the Sun Devils.
ASU was 6.5-point favorite over Wyoming in Week 1 college football odds entering the game.
Arizona State (1-0) will host Mississippi State next Saturday. Mississippi State beat Eastern Kentucky in Week 1 on Saturday, 56-7.
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Wyoming avoids getting shut out with late touchdown
The Cowboys drove 74 yards over nine plays and 2:14 with backup QB Kaden Anderson to get ono the scoreboard with two seconds left in the game with a short pass from Anderson to Chris Durr Jr.
Score: ASU football 48, Wyoming 7 (:02 left in fourth quarter)
ASU running game has big night vs Wyoming
Let’s give the ASU offensive line and running backs some credit for their performance against Wyoming.
The Sun Devils have rushed for 241 yards in this game, with no one rushing for more than 49 yards.
Cam Skattebo rushed for 49 yards on 11 carries, while DeCarlos Brooks rushed for 47 yards on six carries.
Each had a touchdown.
Seven different Arizona State players rushed for at least 15 yards.
Sam Leavitt’s night over for ASU vs Wyoming
After Wyoming had to punt after a 7-play, 10-yard drive, ASU made a change at QB, bringing in Nebraska transfer Jeff Sims, the Sun Devils’ backup.
Sam Leavitt finished the game 14-for-22 passing for 258 yards and two touchdowns. He also rushed eight times for 47 yards.
ASU’s first drive without Leavitt ended with a 43-yard missed field goal from Carston Kieffer after 14 plays and 62 yards over 8:50.
ASU extends lead with big play vs Wyoming
The Sun Devils are destroying the Cowboys in Tempe.
Sam Leavitt just hit Kyson Brown on a short pass and then the speedy wide receiver ran to the end zone for a 68-yard completion, extending Arizona State’s lead to 48-0.
Yes 48-0. And there is still 3:34 left in the third quarter.
Wyoming has gone 3-and-out on four of its last six possessions, with the other two being a kneel-down on one play at the end of the first half and ASU returning a backward pass for a touchdown on the second play of a drive.
Score: Arizona State 48, Wyoming 0 (3:34 left in third quarter)
Arizona State defense scores again against Wyoming
The Sun Devils now have two defensive scores in this game.
Wyoming’s Evan Svoboda’s pass was thrown behind his receiver and ASU’s Justin Wodtly recovered it and ran 23 yards for the score, giving ASU a 41-0 lead on Wyoming.
FOX Sports rules analyst Dean Blandino, on the FS1 broadcast, said that it looked like the pass was a forward pass, but the officials did not agree, upholding the backward pass ruling and the touchdown for the Sun Devils.
ASU now has three takeaways in this game. The Sun Devils were -11 in takeaways last season.
Score: ASU football 41, Wyoming 0 (6:07 left in third quarter)
ASU football punts for first time vs Wyoming
The Sun Devils just punted for the first time in this game, with 6:45 left in the third quarter.
ASU’s latest drive went for 37 yards over six plays. It is just the second time it hasn’t scored on offense, the first coming late in the first half when it missed a field goal attempt.
Arizona State has a 24:14 to 14:01 advantage in time of possession in this game.
ASU defense holds Wyoming to 3-and-out
The Sun Devils just forced Wyoming to punt, although the Cowboys didn’t really help matters, gaining just six yards on three running plays on the drive.
This game is already ugly, with ASU up 34-0, but it has the potentially to get really ugly, at least for the Cowboys.
ASU fans aren’t complaining.
Sun Devils start second half with impressive drive to extend lead vs Wyoming
Sam Leavitt has his first touchdown pass as an Arizona State Sun Devil.
The QB just engineered a 9-play, 75-yard touchdown drive for ASU football to start the second half against Wyoming, throwing a 25-yard touchdown pass to Chamon Metayer for the score.
Leavitt also had a 6-yard run and a 15-yard run on the drive.
He’s now 12-for-18 in the game for 179 yards, with the touchdown.
He has 26 yards rushing.
Score: ASU football 34, Wyoming 0 (11:03 left in third quarter)
ASU football vs Wyoming: First-half stats, thoughts
The first half is in the books at Mountain America Stadium in Tempe and it was a good one for the Sun Devils, who have a 27-0 lead on the Cowboys.
ASU has 241 yards of total offense, while Wyoming only has 53. ASU is 3-for-7 on third downs, Wyoming is 1-for-6.
Wyoming has thrown two interceptions. ASU didn’t have any turnovers in the first half.
Penalties have been a big factor in the first half, with Wyoming penalized seven times for 65 yards. ASU has one 5-yard penalty in the game.
Some key performers for ASU in the first half were QB Sam Leavitt, who is 0-for-14 for 134 yards, running back Cam Skattebo, who has 41 yards and a touchdown on nine carries and wide receiver Jake Smith, who has three catches for 47 yards in his debut for the Sun Devils after being injured last season.
Evan Svoboda, a Mesa Red Mountain High graduate, is just 4-for-10 for 32 yards, with two interceptions for Wyoming.
The Sun Devils had to settle for some field goals when they would have rather had touchdowns, and they missed a field goal late in the first half, but you really can’t complain about their first half of football this season.
It has only been two quarters, but it was a good two quarters for Kenny Dillingham’s team in its quest for a much-improved season after going 3-9 last year.
Halftime score: ASU football 27, Wyoming 0
Arizona State comes up empty vs Wyoming for first time entering half
The Sun Devils came up empty on offense for the first time in the first half Saturday when Ian Hershey missed a 38-yard field goal late in the second quarter after ASU’s drive stalled against the Cowboys.
Wyoming kneeled the ball for one play to end the half with ASU leading 27-0.
ASU football adds to lead against Wyoming
ASU just extended its lead to 27-0 with a 24-yard field goal from Ian Hershey after ASU’s drive stalled deep in Wyoming territory.
Still, the Sun Devils are up 27-0.
Who saw that coming? ASU was just a 6.5-point favorite in odds for this game.
Sam Leavitt has been efficient in his first start for the Sun Devils and is currently 8-for-11 for 95 yards, with no touchdown passes and more importantly, no interceptions or fumbles.
Score: Arizona State football 27, Wyoming 0 (4:28 left in second quarter)
Rough homecoming for Wyoming’s Evan Svoboda
Wyoming quarterback Evan Svoboda, a Mesa Red Mountain High product, is having a rough homecoming so far as the Cowboys’ starting QB.
Svoboda is 3-for-9 in the game, having only thrown for 22 yards. He has had two passes intercepted.
It’s been rough going, as the Cowboys only have 52 total yards.
It’s probably not the homecoming Svoboda envisioned.
Cam Skattebo extends Arizona State’s lead over Wyoming
The Sun Devils are rolling early in this game against the Cowboys.
Cam Skattebo just ran it in from 2-yards out on a 4th & 2 for Arizona State, extending ASU’s lead to 24-0 with 9:47 left in the second quarter.
Skattebo lined up at quarterback for ASU on the play, and took the direct snap from the center, with DeCarlos Brooks helping lead the way to him making it into the end zone.
Skattebo is up to 41 yards on nine carries in the game.
Score: ASU football 24, Wyoming 0 (9:47 left in second quarter)
ASU defense continues to stop Wyoming
Wyoming’s fourth drive of the game went for six plays and just 13 yards, ending with the Sun Devils again forcing the Cowboys to punt, their second of the game.
Evan Svoboda is struggling for Wyoming. He’s just 3-for-9 in the game for 22 yards, with two interceptions.
Wyoming isn’t faring much better on the ground. It has nine carries for 33 yards rushing.
Arizona State takes 17-0 lead into second quarter vs Wyoming
ASU just went on a 10-play, 72-yard drive that took five minutes off the clock and ended with a 2-yard touchdown run by DeCarlos Brooks to give the Sun Devils a 17-0 lead as the first quarter clock ended.
ASU has 51 yards rushing in the game, 30 from Cam Skattebo.
Sam Leavitt is 4-for-5 for 36 yards in his first game as ASU’s quarterback.
ASU’s defense was the star of the first quarter, however, for the Sun Devils, after getting two interceptions and allowing just 37 yards of total offense for the Cowboys.
Score: ASU football 17, Wyoming 0 (end of first quarter)
ASU football defense stops Wyoming again
Let’s give ASU’s defense some credit.
The Sun Devils just forced Wyoming to punt, making three straight drives that they have stopped the Cowboys.
That’ll do, especially after ASU’s woes on the defensive side of the football last season.
Wyoming has 37 total yards in this game and two first downs. It is 0-for-2 on third down.
Arizona State takes advantage of turnovers to build lead vs Wyoming
The Arizona State Sun Devils have a 10-0 lead on Wyoming in the first quarter at Mountain America Stadium, the latest score coming on a 29-yard field goal by Ian Hershey after ASU’s defense got its second interception of the game.
ASU wasn’t able to punch it into the end zone, but it did get its first points on offense of the season with the field goal.
Arizona State’s first touchdown of the season came on a pick-six.
Score: Arizona State 10, Wyoming 0 (6:19 left in first quarter)
ASU football defense gets another interception vs Wyoming
Last year, it took the ASU football defense four games to get a takeaway.
This is not last year.
ASU football’s defense has two takeaways in the first quarter against Wyoming, both interceptions, that have come on the Cowboys’ first two possessions.
Keyshaun Elliott intercepted Wyoming’s Evan Svoboda for the second takeway.
Svoboda is now 2-for-4 for 16 yards with the two interceptions.
ASU will take it.
ASU football off to great start vs Wyoming with interception return touchdown
Well, ASU football couldn’t have asked for a better start against Wyoming.
Zyrus Fiaseu intercepted an Evan Svoboda pass on Wyoming’s second play of the game, and Svoboda’s first pass attempt, and ran it back 26 yards for a touchdown for the Sun Devils, giving ASU a 7-0 lead less than one minute into the game.
Score: Arizona State 7, Wyoming 0 (14:19 left in first quarter)
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The game can be seen at 7:30 p.m. MST on FS1 (stream with this free trial from FUBO).
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ASU football is a 6.5-point favorite over Wyoming in the game, according to BetMGM Sportsbook.
The Sun Devils are -250 on the moneyline. The Cowboys are +200.
The over/under for the game is set at 47.5 points.
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