"The biggest reason Arizona State lost to BYU is that its offensive staff outsmarted itself in a way that led to one of the most mistake-filled games in the program's modern history. Offensive coordinator Zak Hill uses a no-huddle offense in which all players get play calls by watching the signaler on the sidelines and then get properly lined up with an understanding of the play, formation and snap procedure. For the first time since he's been in Tempe, that changed against the Cougars. The Sun Devils were concerned about the potential for one of their former offensive graduate assistants, Tyson McDaniel, to steal the sideline signals in a way that would allow BYU to know which play they would run. So, instead of signaling in plays from the sideline to all players at the same time, they signaled a number to sophomore quarterback Jayden Daniels, who would then have to read the corresponding play from a wristband he wore and communicate with the exactly correct verbiage to the rest of the offensive players in a huddle, and all of those players would have to hear — while in a loud and hostile environment — and understand and then execute the call. Included in the message: which side of the formation to line up on; which direction to run the play; on which clap of Daniels' hands they should start the play. This approach failed miserably."