Football (Bruce Snyder/5th Year): Finished the season ranked fourth in
both major polls after going 11-1 and 8-0 in the Pac-10, winning its
second Pac-10 titleIbeat then No. 1 Nebraska on Sept. 21 19-0, the first
time since 1977 the No. 1 team had been shut out.
ASU snapped NebraskaUs regular-season winning streak of 37 games and its overall streak of 26 games.
Playing surface was renamed Frank Kush Field during the Nebraska
gameInine Sun Devils won Pac-10 Player of the Week.
ASU's 56 points vs. Boise State and at Arizona were the most since 1981 when it scored 62 against Stanford.
Juan Roque was a consensus All-AmericanIBruce Snyder earned his 100th career win with a 56-14 win at Arizona
Jake Plummer won numerous awards, including Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year (first ASU player to win the award), Football Writers Association of America All-American, Chevrolet Offensive Player of the Year and First-Team All-Pac-10, and finished third in the Heisman Trophy balloting
Undefeated regular season was the fourth in ASU history
Plummer's 65 career touchdown passes is an ASU record
Placed five players on the Pac-10 All-Academic Team, tied with Stanford for the most in the conference
ASU has won six straight road games and six straight Pac-10 road games
Terry Battle earned The Sporting News First-Team All-America honors as a special teams player, while Derrick Rodgers earned first-team honors from the Football Writers Association of America, All-America Football Foundation and the Associated Press
ASU matched or surpassed capacity on four occasions in Sun Devil Stadium, with the Cal game setting the attendance record with 74,963 fans
ASU's average attendance of 63,884 was the best increase in the nation
ASU has now won 15 of its past 17 games
Four of the top six crowds in ASU history happened in 1996
Plummer started the final 40 games of his career
Earning Pac-10 All-Academic honors were Jake Plummer, Devin Kendall, Derek Smith, Pat Tillman and Damien Richardson
Honorable mention Pac-10 All-Academic selections were Glen Gable, Robert Nycz, Paul Reynolds, Zack Romero and Kevin Tommasini
Picked to finish second at the Pacific-10 Conference's Media Day
A preseason No. 26 pick according to USA Today.
Attendance Breakdown: 7 home dates; total home attendance- 447,187; average attendance - 63,884.
