Being picked last in the Big 12 has spurred the Arizona State football team all season, but redshirt freshman quarterback Sam Leavitt has a little extra incentive this week.
The Sun Devils (8-2, 5-2) will host Brigham Young (9-2, 6-1) at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday at Mountain America Stadium, with the winner putting themselves in the driver’s seat for a berth in the conference championship game . It was a position neither of these teams was projected to be in four months ago but both are now nationally ranked and in the title hunt.
Leavitt was not recruited by BYU out of high school. That normally wouldn’t be a big deal but it is a little more noteworthy because his father, Jared, played for BYU, lettering in 1990 and 1991 while his brother Dallin, a safety who played six years with three different NFL teams, played in Provo in 2013 and 2014…