3. Washington State at Arizona State
LINE Arizona State -16.5
ATS PICK Arizona State
Arizona State played against Utah like it desperately needed a bit of a break.
The defense didn’t have the intensity it showed in the second half against UCLA or throughout the win over Stanford, and the offense just couldn’t seem to get seem to find any groove.
Now it’s had two weeks off and it should be ready for a big finishing kick. Rip through the rest of the schedule, hope for a Utah loss somewhere, and it’ll be on to the Pac-12 Championship.
However, the Utah performance was a bit concerning, and the loss to BYU was odd, but those two games were on the road. This team is crushing it at home.
It beat Southern Utah and UNLV both by 27. It rolled past Colorado by 24 and Stanford by 18.
Washington State lost at home to USC by 31, but that was back in Week 3.
The team was able to hold together through the Nick Rolovich saga, and all things considered, it played okay last week in a 21-19 loss to BYU.
It was good enough to beat Oregon State, and it got by Stanford, but Arizona State – even with BYU beating the Sun Devils – should be the toughest team it’s had to deal with by far.
The Cougars have been through a lot, and now they’re getting to play a team that’ll look like it has 14 guys on the field.
Enough of that … back to Extreme Point Totals Week, and we continue by going totally against everything I’ve been preaching and saying for the last bazillion words or so.