The Arizona State “Victory Bell” has been quiet this season. It was rung against the FCS Southern Utah Week 1, and it hasn’t made a sound since.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!That doesn’t mean the Sun Devils haven’t been making noise. They just haven’t been able to finish it and produce the roar at the end. The defense allowed a 45-yard pass against Colorado with seconds left to lose the game. They couldn’t score late in the USC game. And then there was the disastrous Pick-6 at the end of the Washington game. Everything that could go wrong would go wrong.
They were so close, though, and Kenny Dillingham knew it. The team couldn’t get a Power 5 win. They couldn’t get a Pac-12 win until last night. Arizona State finally conquered their end-of-game demons against a dangerous Washington State team and made three straight stops inside the red zone to power them to a 38-27 win.
Both sides of the ball came alive, with the offense generating 500 yards of offense and the defense holding a scary QB in Cameron Ward to only 35 rushing yards. They also produced 14 points in the second half, a problem for the team all year. It was an all-around fantastic performance by the Sun Devils.
The Victory Bell finally made noise again, and now that Dillingham’s team knows how to win Pac-12 games, it might not stop ringing.
Joey Ramos rings the victory bell for the first Power 5 win in the Kenny Dillingham era.@DevilsDigest pic.twitter.com/3riZmWVOp1
— Sammy Nute (@SammyNute) October 29, 2023
