Arizona State football played in its first bowl game way back in 1940, incredibly tying Catholic University 0-0 in the Sun Bowl. The team would play in three more bowl games over the next decade (all losses) before entering a 20-year postseason drought.
Enter head coach Frank Kush and the 1970 Sun Devil team, undefeated (10-0) and traveling to the East Coast to take on a power conference foe in the North Carolina Tar Heels at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, Georgia.
The game would turn out to be the the competition that launched Arizona State football into the national spotlight and forced the college football powers that be to take the program seriously from then on…