Sitting here wrapping up a review of the ASU UNLV game… and have some impressions:

1. ASU is not as strong and physical up front as Utah on both OL and DL. If BYU is smart, I expect Allgeier to have a break out game.

2. ASU danced around for 3 quarters barely leading a very bad UNLV team. For reference, UNLV lost to E Washington in week one and has not won a football game since 2019. Final score is misleading. Wk one for ASU was an unrevealing win over Southern Utah. ASU has not faced a difficult opponent, and at least against UNLV, was rather unimpressive.

3. The ASU QB seems somewhat prone to bad decisions and is off target with throws too often… particularly when under pressure.

4. The ASU offense seems to depend a lot on the QB breaking out of the pocket for runs either by design or when the DL hands him a running lane. UNLV, as bad as they are, had some pretty undisciplined pass rush. BYU will almost certainly put a spy (which UNLV failed to do) on the ASU QB and continue the types of pressure we saw against Utah.

I predict BYU takes ASU to the mat:

BYU 34 ASU 17