The Sun Devils’ offense continues to look rusty as Arizona State is in another close one against New Mexico. ASU received 283 passing yards and three touchdowns from Mike Bercovici with receiver of choice Devin Lucien grabbing seven balls for 79 yards.
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The University of New Mexico Lobos are coached by Bob Davie, who is 12-27 in his fourth season with the Lobos, and he is 47-52 overall in his ninth season. Wildcats quarterback Mike Bercovici has 482 total passing yards and four touchdowns on the season after two games.
Here are some things to look for when the Lobos meet the Sun Devils.
After a painstaking, 16-play, 62-yard New Mexico drive, Sanders missed a 35-yard field goal try with 2:36 left in the half.
LOOKING AHEAD: The struggle against an FCS school should prevent the Sun Devils from looking beyond this week. Zane Gonzalez started the scoring for ASU with a 22-yard field goal, and ended it with a 24-yard kick.
Tonight’s Arizona State vs New Mexico college football game has a start time schedule of 7:00pm pacific time, 10:00pm eastern time and airs on TV channel Pac-12 Network. They have six rushers with over 50 yards through their first two games, including quarterback Lamar Jordan, who has 97 yards on 14 carries. The Lobos travel to Wyoming; the Sun Devils play host to Southern California. If Arizona State builds up a huge lead in this game, it’s going to be tough for New Mexico to find a way back into it.
The Sun Devils wore all white Friday, part of a “white-out” promotion that saw most of the fans wear white as well.
Despite that, the Sun Devils couldn’t force a turnover for the seventh straight quarter which allowed the Lobos to command the time of possession much like Cal Poly did against the Sun Devils a week ago. Arizona State will face a similar triple-option offense as last weekend, when it surrendered 284 rushing yards. The Lobos are coming off a game in which they gave up exactly 600 total yards in a 40-21 loss to Tulsa, ASU coach Todd Graham’s former team.
Wide reciever D.J. Foster extended his streak of at least one reception to 42 games, the longest active streak in FBS, with a 7-yard catch on the Devils’ first play of the game.
Part of the New Mexico defense’s problem was the inability of its offense to sustain drives, particularly in the second half.
Just as it appeared the Lobos might go to the locker room with no worse than a tie score, things went badly for the visitors late in the second quarter. In that game, ASU beat New Mexico 58-23.
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The Lobos are 1-12-1 at Arizona State.
