Last week, Arizona State Sun Devils coach Todd Graham said it would be the team who makes the least mistakes that would win week one's contest. Graham was right in that prediction as the Arizona State Sun Devils fell to Texas A&M mainly due to five fumbles and six penalties for a loss of 45 total yards.
"There were lots of good lessons to be learned after that game," Graham said. "They responded well. Your character gets exposed when you face some adversity and we did a lot of things to beat ourselves. That was a very, very good team and they had some really good players in certain places and we fumble the ball five times, lose it twice, two roughing, record setting penalties because one of the roughing the punters returned after.