To help his many newcomers understand the importance of the Territorial Cup, first-year ASU coach Kenny Dillingham showed his team a video chronicling the history of one of college football’s longest rivalries.
Jedd Fisch also has quite a few players who have never participated in the Duel in the Desert, but no video presentation was needed.
“I just showed them the billboard,” Fisch said Monday.
The billboard he’s referring to—in case you blocked out that memory—was the one ASU fans put up along Interstate 10 in the wake of the 70-7 beatdown by the Sun Devils in Tucson in 2020.