Arizona State Football Schedule 2023 – TEMPE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) – There’s no place like home, and the Sun Devils hope that’s the case this fall.
On Wednesday, the Pac-12 released the conference’s 2023 football schedule. Arizona State, which plays eight of its 12 games at home, begins the year by hosting five of its first six games, giving first-year head coach Kenny Dillingham an easier start to his tenure.
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ASU opens the season against FCS opponent Southern Utah on Thursday, August 31st. Things are looking up, from Oklahoma State and Fresno State to close out the non-conference portion. Pac-12 play begins a week later for the Sun Devils when reigning Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams and the USC Trojans arrive in Tempe. The first road trip of the year will be in Week 5 when ASU travels to Cal.
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The regular season ends Nov. 25 with the annual rivalry game against Arizona. The Sun Devils are looking to regain the Territory Cup after the Wildcats snapped ASU’s five-year winning streak in the rivalry last November with a 38-35 victory in Tucson. The Pac-12 championship game, featuring the two teams with the conference’s best records, will be played in Las Vegas on Dec. 1. SAN FRANCISCO – The conference announced its 2023 football schedule today in a one-hour special broadcast on the Network. Pairing a nine-game conference schedule with non-conference games, the 2023 schedule includes:
The 2022 football season begins with a week zero game when USC and Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams host San Jose State on Saturday, August 26.
In the first week, a full paper begins, in the operation of all 12 schools. The Kenny Dillingham era begins in Tempe on Thursday, August 31st as ARIZONA STATE hosts Southern Utah. Defending champion UTAH will open its season at home against Florida this Thursday or Saturday. Coach Troy Taylor’s first game against STANFORD is Friday, Sept. 1, when the Cardinals travel to Hawaii. On Saturday, September 2nd, nine more teams will be in action, including the first “Coach Prime”, as COLORADO and Deion Sanders travel to Texas to face TCU, fresh off the national championship game.
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In the first three weeks of the regular season, the schedule will feature non-conference games against 10 Power Five opponents, seven of which come in the second week. Three of the seven Power Five games on Saturday, September 9 are repeats of last year: ARIZONA visits Mississippi State, ARIZONA STATE hosts Oklahoma State and WASHINGTON STATE hosts Wisconsin at the Palouse. This Saturday also features a pair of Big 12/matchups with UTAH heading to Baylor and OREGON visiting Texas Tech. Week 2 hosts the next installment of the Nebraska-COLORADO rivalry along with CALIFORNIA in Auburn, the Tigers’ second road game at a school. Week three hosts a rematch from last season when WASHINGTON travels to East Lansing for the first time since 1969 against Michigan State.
Both STANFORD and USC will continue their annual series with Notre Dame next season. The Trojans visit South Bend in Week 7, while the Cardinal host the Irish to close out the regular season.
The playoffs begin in week two as STANFORD travels to USC on Saturday, Sept. 10, before the all-conference class begins in week four.
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True to tradition, the final two weeks of the regular season will feature a rivalry game, followed by the 2023 Football Championship, presented by the 76’s, now in its third year at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nev. Friday, December 1st.
The schedule includes at least one Thursday game (in Week 1) and at least six Friday games, with Arizona at USC Friday and Saturday in Week 6.
A combination of ESPN’s channels, ABC, FOX and FS1, will broadcast 45 games nationally, including the championship game, while the Networks will offer 35 games to a national audience. The exact broadcast schedule will be determined at a later date. Now let’s look at head coach Kenny Dillingham’s first season in Tempe, which includes eight games at Sun Devil Stadium.
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TEMPE, Ariz. – We got a look at Arizona State’s first season under head coach Kenny Dillingham when ASU released its football schedule Wednesday morning.
The schedule features 8 home games, including visits to Lincoln Riley and USC, Coach Prime and the Colorado Buffaloes, Dillingham’s former team, the Oregon Ducks, and the Territorial Cup against the Arizona Wildcats.
This is ASU’s only game against a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) team and continues a recent tradition of opening against an FCS school on Thursday.
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This will be the second time the Sun Devils and Thunderbirds have met on the football field, with the last meeting coming on September 2, 2021, when ASU won 41-41.
ASU closes out its home-and-home series with the Cowboys by welcoming Mike Gundy and Co. in Tempe in Week 2.
The Cowboys should be comfortable coming to the Valley as their last two bowl games were in Arizona (the 2021-22 Fiesta Bowl and the 2022-23 Guaranteed Rate Bowl), but both games were played in rather air-conditioned stadiums . like the heat of the valley in early September.
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This will be the fifth game ever between the Sun Devils and Cowboys, and the series is tied. Oklahoma State won the first meeting in 1984, ASU won the next two in 1991 and 1993, and the Cowboys won last year’s game in Stillwater 34-17.
ASU closes out its non-conference schedule with the Fresno State Bulldogs from the Mountain West Conference.
The Sun Devils have defeated Fresno State in three of the four all-time meetings (1931, 1933 and 1941), but the Bulldogs won the most recent meeting in the 2018 Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl.
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ASU has had mixed results against Mountain West teams in recent years, with wins over UNLV in 2021, losses to San Diego State in 2017 and 2018, losses to Fresno State in 2018, 2014 and wins against New Mexico in 2015.
ASU will open its season with its fourth home game and PAC-12 opener against Heisman Trophy reigning Caleb Williams and the USC Trojans.
It will also be the last conference between these schools as USC heads to the Big Ten in 2024.
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USC has dominated this stretch, as the Trojans have won 24 of 38 meetings with ASU, including a 42-25 victory in Los Angeles last year. The last time the Sun Devils beat the Trojans was in 2021.
The Sun Devils’ first road trip of the 2023 season takes them to Berkeley, California to take on the Cal Golden Bears.
It’s been a few years since Cal and ASU teamed up on the gridiron; the teams haven’t played since 2019.
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The Sun Devils and Golden Bears have played 34 times and the streak is 17 wins. ASU has won 3 of the last 4 meetings (2012, 2016 and 2019); Cal’s last win against ASU was in 2015.
ASU returns home in Week 6 for the first meeting between two of its top head coaches from last season: Kenny and First Coach (aka Deion Sanders).
Before the College Football Playoff National Championship game on Jan. 9, Sanders sparked rumors that the game could be moved to Week 0 as both schools’ season opener, but that plan was scrapped a few days after the Football Oversight Committee denied a waiver . move the game.
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ASU dominated the all-time series against Colorado, winning 10 of 13 games. The Sun Devils are also on a 2 game win streak against the Amateurs. CU last beat ASU in 2019.
The Sun Devils travel to Seattle after their bye week to face the Washington Huskies and quarterback Michael Penix Jr., who could be a Heisman Trophy contender next season.
ASU’s biggest win of 2022 came against the then No. 21 Huskies as QB Trenton Bourget stepped in after Emory Jones was injured and led ASU 45-38.
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This will be the 40th meeting between the Sun Devils and Huskies, with ASU leading the series 22-17. ASU has won two straight and Washington’s last win against ASU was in 2018.
The Sun Devils follow up their trip to Washington and host the Washington State Cougars in Week 9 at Sun Devil Stadium.
Last year, the Sun Devils traveled to the Palouse to face Washington State, but lost 28-18.
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ASU leads the all-time series against the Cougars 28-17-2, but Washington State has dominated the past meetings, winning 4 of the last 5 games. ASU’s last win against Washington State was in 2019.
ASU has struggled against Utah as the Utes have won 5 of their last 7 games