Rod Gilmore spoke for all of Sun Devil nation during the second half of the ESPN broadcast.
In short, Gilmore, along with the rest of Sun Devil Twitter, criticized Arizona State’s second-half play calling for being too conservative. After a pair of early touchdown passes and over 100 yards in the air, the Sun Devils were clearly committed to the run.
ASU took advantage of early mismatches on the outside with Utah loading up against the run, why feed the ball right into the teeth of the Ute defense?
In Herm Edwards’s weekly press conference on Monday, he re-emphasized the team’s commitment to its nationally-recognized running back room:
“The more you stick to [the running game], it will pay dividends, and so far this year, it has.