TEMPE — A lot goes into making a football team successful, and all the cards fell into place to get ASU there in the first year of a new offense.
“Football teams are aircraft carriers, man,” offensive coordinator Marcus Arroyo said on Wednesday. “It takes a long time to turn them around. … There’s a lot of people that don’t get enough credit for what they do to get the operation off the ground. I think that’s why this game is so amazing.”
After the Sun Devils had the worst scoring offense in Power 5 and dealt with an in-season coordinator change in 2023, Arroyo designed a turnaround dramatic enough for him to be named a finalist for the Broyles Award, given to the nation’s top assistant coach…