There are Arizona State football players who believe the Sun Devils are better now, at 2-3, than they were at 5-1 last season.
Linebacker DJ Calhoun is one of them. A.J. Latu, now starting at rush linebacker in place of injured Koron Crump, agrees. "I know we're way better than last year," Latu said. "We're not getting the results we want.
"We're not going to give up. We have a lot of confidence in ourselves. We just need to come together. I know we can pull off something this year. Don't sleep on us."
That's as good a rallying cry as anything else for ASU, coming out of its only bye week and heading into consecutive games against No.