2011 Week 16

In the inaugural Pac12 CCG, ASU traveled to Stanford to face the best team they've faced all season knowing that they'd have to play a perfect game to win this one. Luckily for Devils' fans, that's exactly what they did. The ASU defense befuddled the best player in the nation Andrew Luck while Cameron Marshall had his usual studly performance. Just in case that wasn't enough, Devil QB Brock Osweiler had a rare moment of clarity and turned in his best performance of the season.

ASU opened the scoring in the first on a rare Oswelier TD pass to Gerrel Robinson. Midway through the 2nd quarter stud Marshal would punch it in from 4 yards out to put ASU up 14-0. The Cardinal wouldn't roll over, however, as Luck would connect with Fleener for an 18 yd TD pass to pull them within 1 score, but that turned out to be their only score and they'd never get closer. Early in the 3rd Cameron "all he does is score TDs" Marshall would follow his blockers on a beautiful 29 yd TD run to finish the scoring. The 4th quarter saw ASU just beat Stanford into submission as they controlled the clock and just got 1st down after 1st down after 1st down.

The numbers in this one were pretty impressive:

o ASU held the potent Stanford offense to only 170 yards compared to 386 for ASU
o The Cardinal only converted 2 of 6 1st downs compare to an impressive 10 of 13 for ASU.
o Luck had an off night completing only 8 of 16 passes for 97 yards, 1 TD, and 2 INTs.
o Osweiler played out of his mind completing 15 of 16 for 235 yards, 1 TD, and most importantly, 0 INTs.
o Marshall was his usual solid self gaining 164 yards on 29 carries (5.6 YPC) and 2 more TDs.

The Devils will now relax at home as they await their birth in the Rose Bowl.