Arizona State handled Kent State in Thursday night’s season opener at Sun Devil Stadium, only allowing one Golden Flashes touchdown after the dust already settled. Kent State, coming off a disappointing 2-10 campaign, did not get off to the start it hoped to in the second year of the Sean Lewis era.
Here’s what we learned from the Thursday night blowout in Tempe:
Kent State’s passing offense appeared to regress
Sean Lewis’ “Flash Fast” offense looked destined to revitalize a program which suffered so many years of a dormant offense in the Paul Haynes era.