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Holy cow, football is only 18 days away and I forgot to do one of these  2016 Arizona State Sun Devils Last Year: 6-7, 4-5 in conference Last year was supposed to be our year. Experience everywhere and the QB was a 5th year senior with some real good play from the year before. Alas, the defense gave up a million big plays and the offense couldn't get anything started. Key Losses: Offense: Everyone? We're losing QB, 4/5 O-line, 3/4 Top receivers Defense: Secondary Coaching: OC Mike Norvell + 4 assistants Looking at the losses I don't know how we're going to be able to win any meaningful games this year. Hopefully the new coaches will be able to work some magic Returning: Offense (4 returning): Running back is really our only position of strength on offense, Richard and Ballage might be top 10 RB tandem this year. Defense (8 returning): The front seven for ASU is looking pretty solid and if we have any shot of wining games this year it'll be with pressure up front. Position Notes QB – Two way race between Manny Wilkins (mobile QB) and Brady White (pocket passer). Wilkins has a year of experience on White and honestly the offense works better with a mobile QB. My guess is that Wilkins will start but Graham won't announce a starter till the week of the first game. RB – Richards and Ballage were pretty good last year, 1000+/700 yards respectively, and with a new QB and O-line we'll be focusing on the run so they could both get over 1000 yards this year. WR – Losing 3/4 of our top receivers but there's hope that the people replacing the starters will be able to produce. Tim White is expected to make a big improvement this year, Cam Smith is returning from injury, N'keal Harry is a top recruit that may play as a freshman. TE – Kody Kohl added about 30 pounds over the summer to supplement his pass blocking, already a pretty good receiver I expect he'll contribute a lot this year. OL – Returning only 14 starts this group is young. Biggest area for concern heading into the new season DL – Most of the guys up front can get after the QB and we finally have some depth here. JoJo Wicker is looking real good out of spring ball, he should get a lot of TFLs and sacks this year. LB – The LB corps was pretty good last year and just about everyone returns. DB – Replacing 3/4 here but since we gave up so many big plays last year (last of P5) maybe that's a good thing. Hopefully the front seven can get more pressure this year so we don't have to send corners and safeties on blitzes Schedule Sept 3 vs N Arizona (W): Annual FCS cupcake Sept 10 vs Texas Tech (?): This game seems winnable, however if the secondary hasn't improved much Mahomes may rain bombs on us all day Sept 16 @UTSA (W): Not too familiar with UTSA but I don't think we'll have an issue here Sept 24 vs Cal (W): Cal's replacing QB and all receivers in a Sonny Dykes offense. They may be good but I'm not sure if they will be by this point in the season Oct 1 @USC (L): We're too young to compete here. OL will get owned all game Oct 8 vs UCLA (L): We're too young to compete here. OL will get owned all game Oct 15 @Colorado (W): Colorado is almost out of the dunpster, but until proven otherwise I'll always mark this as a win Oct 22 vs Washington St (?): If we can fix the secondary issues we'll have a chance here. Pressure on the QB against air raid usually works pretty well Oct 29 @Oregon (L): We almost beat them last year, and I don't think they'll be stellar this year, but we haven't won in Autzen in forever so that'll probably continue Nov 10 vs Utah (L): We're too young to compete here. OL will get owned all game Nov 19 @Washington (L): We're too young to compete here. OL will get owned all game Nov 25 @Arizona (W): We'll probably be pretty even with UA this year, but I'll never say they're gonna beat us. If we split the tossup games we'll end up 6-6 which seems about right. Best case is we're 8-4, worst 4-8.
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Will Styles posted:Schedule Pretty close. Colorado was better than expected and UCLA wasn't very effective switching to the pro-style. We laid an egg against Arizona, worst game Todd Graham has had. Overall, as pessimistic as I was coming into the season I think we were worse than I thought we were going to be, mostly in part due to injuries (QBs 1-3 all going down was not very good). If the rest of the conference weren't also having a down year this could have been ugly.
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