Every time a rivalry game is played the better team always has to proceed with caution because anything can happen in a rivalry game. Coming into The Territorial Cup game, Arizona and Arizona State were two different teams heading in two different directions. The Arizona Wildcats were ranked number seven in this game. The Sun Devils were just hoping to play spoiler to the Wildcats.
The Sun Devils have played spoiler before though.
Arizona State was coming off a crazy, upset win over the USC Trojans and were looking to pull off another miracle. Emphasis on miracle.