SALT LAKE CITY – This is an attempt to make sense of something that makes no sense. To explain the unexplainable. To put together a puzzle with pieces that do not fit.
It won’t be easy.
To date, there have been two major developments in this season’s Pac-12: The emergence of Arizona quarterback Khalil Tate. And the improvement of Arizona State’s defense.
The former just needed an opportunity. The latter rose from the dead, a revival so unexpected that many just assumed it couldn’t be done, a fatal blow that ultimately would end coach Todd Graham’s time in the desert.