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Key players, key stats along with a prediction regarding Friday verts game

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Salvaging 2011

ASU (6-5) vs. California (6-5) Friday 8:15 p.m. Sun Devil Stadium

TV:ESPN (Mike Patrick, Craig James plus Samantha Steele)Radio:620 KTAR-AM (Tim Healey, Jeff Van Raaphorst)Latest line: ASU popular by means of 5 1/2 points.

Noteworthy: ASU can be 14-16 all-time against Cal along with provides beaten that Golden Bears only once (2007) because 2001. This is the Sun Devils regular-season finale. They have dropped four with the beyond all 5 games. Cal won this past year azines matchup 50-17 around Berkeley. The Golden Bears missing 31-28 previous full week alongside No. being unfaithful Stanford.

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ASU 1st and also foremost

Aiming for history

ASU going back Cameron Marshall offers sixteen your company touchdowns this season. The ASU period file is eighteen collection simply by Woody Green (in 1972) and also Terry Battle (1996).

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ASU important stat

5.

Arizona State includes brought inside second 50 % in each one involving its several losses. The Sun Devils have got encouraged from the fourth fraction in four.

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ASU key player

Quarterback Brock Osweiler

With their season rewriting outside of control, the Sun Devils have to have a thing exceptional using their leader. Osweiler needs 501 yards align your school utes single-season spending record, nonetheless he could possibly be better loved intended for simply adding keeping a positive stamps within the end of this season. There azines however time.

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Cal 1st and foremost

Consistency up front

The Golden Bears (6-5, 3-5 Pac-12) are actively playing pertaining to dish positioning. . . . They have have the identical personal training starters to the questionable line in 10 with their 11 games. The just exception followed in opposition to Washington State when Brian Schwenke ended up being exchanged at kept shield due to illness.

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Cal major stat

5.

Cal is actually strapped intended for the actual national guide using five scoring hard disks associated with over 90 yards, many producing touchdowns. The Golden Bears possessed hard disks connected with 92 and 91 back yards inside time of year opener in opposition to Fresno State, 91 on their own first possession with Washington, plus 91 and also 96 vs. Oregon State.

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Cal key player

Receiver Keenan Allen

Four receivers have submitted 100-yard getting performances contrary to the Sun Devils on the recent several weeks. Allen could possibly be the fifth. He has 84 assaults regarding 1,200 yards plus five touchdowns, but loads of that production arrived over the period utes earliest half. In this morning azines reduction to Stanford, Allen possessed six gets with regard to 97 yards along with a touchdown.

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Sun Devils on offense

ASU accommodates its go with with difficult Cal defense

ASU vertisements most important concern provides are available in your crimson zone. During a new three-game dropping streak, that Sun Devils have made just seven touchdowns with fourteen red-zone opportunities. They include rushed to get sixty and 61 yards prior times two weeks, related to 70 fewer than their time average. RB Cameron Marshall (881 rushing yards, 16 TDs) is just not 100 percent, using by means of ankle and knee issues. Receiver Gerell Robinson (61 catches, 1,100 yards) includes established a career high throughout each of his over three games. Quarterback Brock Osweiler has accomplished not as much as 60 percent with his moves within several games, two forthcoming during the company verts shedding streak. California will allow 23.2 details per online game in addition to turns the particular Pac-12 within whole defensive (326.91 ypg) and pass safety (204.09 ypg). The Golden Bears have presented five groups in order to less than seventy rushing back yards this season. The Golden Bears have 31 sacks, next inside conference.

Advantage:Even.

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Sun Devils on defense

Struggles coming from beyond several days could possibly continue

The Sun Devils include granted up more than 1,500 blended back yards in cuts to UCLA, Washington State in addition to Arizona. The Sun Devils position eighth nationally in pressured turnovers, but these people ve produced simply just three prior times three weeks. During your identical span, ASU opposing team are 22 regarding 46 (47.8 percent) on 3 rd down. Coach Dennis Erickson known as a week ago s tackling versus Arizona the hardest he utes viewed in the course of his period at ASU. The Sun Devils allow 274 moving meters every game, which will position 108th of 120 FBS schools. Cal averages 28.3 points. QB Zach Maynard had certainly one of his / her far better online games a week ago versus Stanford, handing in thirty associated with 30 with regard to 280 meters as well as two TDs. Keenan Allen will be minute within the Pac-12 and 10th while in the nation in receptions for each game (7.64) and also finding yards each activity (109.09). RB Isi Sofele has hurried pertaining to 1,121 yards and eight touchdowns.

Advantage:Cal.

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Special teams

Can ASU make clutch system kicking out of Alex Garoutte?

ASU s Jamal Miles may be a adventure changer. He possesses delivered two kickoffs and also a punt with regard to touchdowns. He status second country wide with punt returns (16.6 yards every return) and 18th throughout kick profits (27 yards). Josh Hubner averages 41.4 yards per punt plus has slipped twenty three within the 20. Kicker Alex Garoutte has made three regarding his over all 5 field-goal attempts, although he's battled throughout pressure situations. Overall, the redshirt freshman possesses manufactured 13 connected with 20. Cal ersus Brendan Bigelow averages 20.8 yards every kickoff return, by using one opting for your touchdown. Kicker Giorgio Tavecchio includes made 15 of 18 field-goal attempts, which includes his over four.

Advantage:Even.

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Bottom line

ASU not really executing good inside must-win scenarios at the time of late

ASU has plenty connected with incentive. First as well as foremost, that Sun Devils still have got a possible opportunity to find this Pac-12 championship game. Secondly, that s Senior Day. And whenever which verts definitely not enough, presently there utes a substantial chance this may be Erickson ersus previous activity from Sun Devil Stadium. But here s that thing: Last full week your Sun Devils were in a must-win scenario while well. They believed a win would likely develop their postseason position. They knew their particular train verts employment what food was in jeopardy. And some people nonetheless shed to be able to competitor Arizona. At this kind of point, exactly what don't you expect for you to transform versus Cal?

Prediction:Cal 27, ASU 24.

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