Arizona passes over Washington State
Anu Solomon threw five touchdown passes and No. 15 Arizona beat Washington State, 59-37, on Saturday in a game featuring the top offenses in the Pac-12.
The freshman quarterback was 26 for 38 for 294 yards without an intercepted pass. Terris JonesGrigsby added 107 yards rushing for Arizona, which was coming off an off week after losing to USC.
Washington State, also off last week, lost its third straight game.
Washington State’s Connor Halliday, the nation’s leading passer, completed 56 of 79 passes for 489 yards, with four touchdowns and two passes intercepted, and became the leading career passer in school history. Isiah Myers caught two touchdown passes for the Cougars.
Washington State gave up 60 points in a loss to California and 59 to Arizona in its last two home games.
Arizona scored 24 straight points in the first quarter, including two touchdowns by DaVonte Neal, to win for the fourth consecutive time in Martin Stadium.
at Stanford 38, Oregon State 14: Kevin Hogan threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, Ty Montgomery returned a punt for a score and the Cardinal’s sporadic offense busted out of its slump in a rout of the Beavers.
Stanford controlled the game from start to finish, showing more diverse looks than it has all season — just as Coach David Shaw had promised after a 26-10 loss at Arizona State last weekend.
No. 14 Arizona State 24, at Washington 10: Taylor Kelly threw two touchdown passes after missing more than a month with a foot injury, the second a seven-yarder to Gary Chambers with three minutes left in the Sun Devils’ victory.
Playing in swirling wind with waves of heavy rain blowing in sideways, the guys from the desert managed the difficult conditions for their ninth straight win over Washington. Arizona State (6-1, 4-1 Pac-12) remained in control of the race in the Pac-12 South and set up a huge matchup with Utah next week in Tempe.