This is the first weekend of football posting for me on this board. The amount of interaction here is certainly impressive. Each week I'll be posting my college and pro picks (at least 1 per week) with units (ranging from 1 to 5).
Season Stats:
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Game: Arizona State at Northwestern
Time: Saturday, 11:00 a.m. CDT
Pick: Arizona State +2-1/2 (4 units)
Coming off a 41-9 victory over UTEP in last week's season opener, Arizona State travels to Evanston, IL to take on the Northwestern Wildcats (0-1).
Saturday's game at NU's Ryan Field will be televised nationally on ESPN2.
This weekend, ASU looks to get its 6th win in its last 8 tries against teams from the Big Ten Conference. Northwestern opened the 2004 season with a 48-45 double-overtime loss at TCU last Thursday night.
Northwestern's kicker, Brett Basanez only made 1-of-6 FG's against TCU. Their defense gave up a lot of yards and now 2 of their better players are out.
ASU is so much deeper in TE than they have evern been before. Sun Devil kicker Jesse Ainsworth put 4 of his 8 kickoffs in the endzone for touchbacks.
We all know that Arizona State has struggled horribly on the road and has lost to much lesser teams on the road lately. However, you can attribute road losses to a team without fire. Passionate defensive play is what ignites a fire in a team and I think that ASU has that now. If the Sun Devils play with the same inspiration on defense this weekend as they did last, then look for them to end their road woes and move on. I think Arizona State is going to do just that.
Season Stats:
College Football: 0 - 0 .000 0 units
Game: Arizona State at Northwestern
Time: Saturday, 11:00 a.m. CDT
Pick: Arizona State +2-1/2 (4 units)
Coming off a 41-9 victory over UTEP in last week's season opener, Arizona State travels to Evanston, IL to take on the Northwestern Wildcats (0-1).
Saturday's game at NU's Ryan Field will be televised nationally on ESPN2.
This weekend, ASU looks to get its 6th win in its last 8 tries against teams from the Big Ten Conference. Northwestern opened the 2004 season with a 48-45 double-overtime loss at TCU last Thursday night.
Northwestern's kicker, Brett Basanez only made 1-of-6 FG's against TCU. Their defense gave up a lot of yards and now 2 of their better players are out.
ASU is so much deeper in TE than they have evern been before. Sun Devil kicker Jesse Ainsworth put 4 of his 8 kickoffs in the endzone for touchbacks.
We all know that Arizona State has struggled horribly on the road and has lost to much lesser teams on the road lately. However, you can attribute road losses to a team without fire. Passionate defensive play is what ignites a fire in a team and I think that ASU has that now. If the Sun Devils play with the same inspiration on defense this weekend as they did last, then look for them to end their road woes and move on. I think Arizona State is going to do just that.
