Arizona State College Football Preview 2021: What Will Happen, Season Prediction
Is this really when it all comes together?
Every coach should be allowed a few years to get his guys and his systems into place, and now it’s Year Four under Herm Edwards. He’s been solid so far, and now has just about everything he needs to come up with something sensational.
Helped by the super-senior year, he’s getting just about everyone back, he’s got more than enough depth to come up with a few good position battles, and he’s got the starting quarterback with two years of experience and the upside to become among the nation’s best. If Jayden Daniels really is just that good, look out.
The overall talent level isn’t among the elite of the CFO title-contender elite, but it’s strong enough to demand a possible run to the Pac-12 Championship.
Set The Arizona State Regular Season Win Total At … 8.5
There’s no Oregon on the regular season slate and USC comes to Tempe. Start with that, and that’s as much of a break as any Pac-12 South team can get.
So what’s missing outside of the prove it factor? The program has showed under Edwards that it can hang and beat the occasional great team – like effectively keeping Oregon out of the 2019 College Football Playoff with the win – but it couldn’t get by UCLA or Oregon State just before beating the Ducks two years ago.
It was able to come really, really close to beating USC and UCLA last year, but didn’t.
It’s been able to do a whole lot of good things, and yet five of the 13 losses under Edwards came against teams that finished with a losing record.
So yeah, ASU should be able to pull off a win at Washington here, or a victory over Utah on the road there, but it can’t do that and lose to Colorado or Washington State or at Oregon State.
This is the best team under Edwards so far by a mile. Now it has to get the job done.
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