The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Arizona St. upends No. 6 Oregon, 31-28
Jayden Daniels’ big night on a prime-time national stage Saturday night helped Arizona State stun No. 6 Oregon 31-28, giving the Sun Devils their biggest victory of the season.
Daniels, a true freshman, completed 22 of 32 passes for 408 yards and three touch- downs, and host Arizona State intercepted two of Justin Herbert’s passes in the fourth quarter.
Arizona State (6-5, 3-5 Pac12) ended Oregon’s hopes for the College Football Play- off and its nine-game win- ning streak. The Sun Devils snapped a four-game losing streak with their first victory over a top-five team since Oct. 14, 2017, against then-No. 5 Washington.
Oregon (9-2, 7-1) has clinched the Pac-12 North title and a place in the con- ference championship game. But the Ducks’ best-case sce- nario is likely the Rose Bowl.
“There’s lot of goals that go into a season. One of them was to have ourselves in a situation coming into this game to be part of every con- versation and every kind of championship,” Oregon coach Mario Cristobal said. “But right now the only conversation that needs to take place for us as a team is the most logical one, that we get back to our process of being 1-0.”
The Sun Devils held on after Oregon scored three touchdowns within 6:38 in the wild fourth quarter.
The Ducks, down 24-7 with 8:42 to play, scored twice on three-play drives. It took them 59 seconds to make it 24-14 on Cyrus Habibi-Likio’s touchdown run, then 43 seconds to get Herbert’s scoring pass to Johnny Johnson III.
Then, with Arizona State facing third-and-16, Daniels hit Brandon Aiyuk in stride for an 81-yard touchdown strike with 3:54 to play.
Sun Devils coach Herm Edwards said play action was the key to Daniels’ long completions.
“We just felt that our matchup with our receivers, that we had the ability to beat them. We wanted one-on-one matchups with their corners, and we go it,” Edwards said.
In other late Saturday games (with College Foot- ball Playoff rankings):
(At) No. 1 LSU 56, Arkansas 20: Clyde Edwards-Helaire rushed for a career- high 188 yards and three TDs to help the Tigers (11-0, 7-0 SEC) roll past the Razor- backs (2-9, 0-7). Joe Burrow added 327 yards passing with three touchdowns.
No. 7 Utah 35, (at) Arizona 7: Led by Zack Moss’ season-high 203 rushing yards, the Utes (10-1, 7-1) are the last team standing in the Pac-12’s quest for a spot in the College Football Playoff after rolling past the Wild- cats (4-7, 2-6).
(At) No. 9 Oklahoma 28, TCU 24: It wasn’t pretty, but Jalen Hurts passed for two touchdowns and ran for two more, and the Soon- ers (10-1, 7-1 Big 12) held off the Horned Frogs (5-6, 3-5).
(At) No. 19 Cincinnati 15, Temple 13: Michael Warren II ran 13 yards for a touchdown and Coby Bryant went 98 yards with a blocked extra-point attempt to help the Bearcats (10-1, 7-0) edge the Owls (7-4, 4-3) and secure the AAC East title.
No. 20 Boise State 56, (at) Utah State 21: George Holani rushed for a career- high 178 yards and two touchdowns as the Broncos (10-1, 7-0 Mountain West) whipped the Aggies (6-5, 5-2) and clinched a berth in its third consecutive confer- ence title game.