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ASU defense overcomes key injuries, targeting ejection to survive UCLA

Arizona State football is incredibly young on defense without injuries, starting four true or redshirt freshmen.

Saturday against UCLA, the Sun Devils were forced to go even younger, playing another true freshman and a sophomore extensively out of necessity on what maybe should have been changed from Senior Day to Frosh Frolic.

The result were not perfect, of course. UCLA ran up 439 total yards and had a chance to force overtime. But ASU limited the scoring damage in a 31-28 victory at Sun Devil Stadium, holding a ninth opponent out of 10 to 28 points or fewer.