Sunday’s Pac-12 showdown between No. 19 Arizona State and No. 24 California was the only ranked matchup in the country and the game lived up to the billing.
Both teams desperately needed to win this game considering the Pac-12’s difficulty. Cal entered Sunday having lost four of five games including a loss at Arizona Friday night.
The Sun Devils were coming off a narrow loss to No. 6 Stanford after a poor first half offensively was too much to overcome. They couldn’t afford to fall to 2-3 in conference play with a road trip to the Oregon schools looming next weekend.