Even the most-cynical fans of the Arizona State Sun Devils couldn’t have seen this coming.
It’s one thing to lose a stretch of conference games when injuries have zapped the team of many of its better athletes. Especially in the Pac-12, where there’s only one or two teams a year that qualify as cupcakes.
But it’s a completely new beast to end the season as listless as ASU did in Friday night’s 56-35 loss in Tucson. Against a team whose most recent victories came in September against Grambling State and Hawaii, the Sun Devils laid a multitude of eggs in Arizona Stadium and gift-wrapped the Wildcats their only conference win of the season and the Territorial Cup.