ASU Football: September Game Predictions

By Brendan Kennealy | Jun 23, 2015

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Dec 27, 2014; El Paso, TX, USA; Arizona State Sun Devils head coach Todd Graham walks off the field at halftime as his team faces the Duke Blue Devils in the 2014 Sun Bowl at Sun Bowl Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre-USA TODAY Sports

74 days. Just 74 days until Arizona State football kicks off the 2015 season against Texas A&M in Houston, Texas. ASU is expected to be a top-20 team to start the season and will have high expectations after reaching No. 6 in the national rankings in 2014.

Mike Bercovici will take over the reins of the ASU offense this season after splitting time with Taylor Kelly last year. Kelly has since graduated and went undrafted in the 2015 NFL Draft, picked up by the Arizona Cardinals for rookie minicamp, but was not offered a contract following his workout with the team.

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D.J. Foster will slide from tail back to slot receiver to begin the season. Foster totalled 1,769 all-purpose yards and 12 touchdowns in his junior year. Even though he has primarily played as a running back he has caught 62 and 63 passes over the past two seasons.

The defense lost Marcus Hardison and Damarious Randall in the offseason to the NFL draft with the Cincinnati Bengals selecting Hardison and the Green Bay Packers nabbing Randall in the first round.

Jordan Simone, Kweishi Brown, Lloyd Carrington, and Armand Perry will now headline the ASU secondary. Edmond Boateng, Jaxon Hood, Tashon Smallwood, and D.J. Calhoun are also very important pieces for the ASU defense entering the new season.

Let’s take a look at the first four games of the season and predictions for how ASU will shape up in each of the contests. The first three games of the season are the only non-conference games on the schedule and the fourth game will be ASU’s first PAC-12 opponent in 2015.

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