Quick hits

• ASU won its 15th consecutive game when leading at halftime, tied with West Virginia for the longest-active streak among Big 12 teams. 
• Linebacker Jordan Crook was credited with 14 tackles, the most by a Sun Devil since Kyle Soelle also had 14 at Stanford on October 22, 2022
• The Sun Devils have allowed just one sack in their last two contests - the first time doing so since allowing between the Kansas State-BYU games last season. ASU had allowed 25 in the first eight games of the season (3.1 per game) prior to the 0.5 over the last two games. 
• West Virginia went for it on fourth down four times in this afternoon’s contest. It was the 25th time since 1996 that a team went for it four or more times against Arizona State. This is only the NINTH time where ASU held that foe to one conversion or less despite four or more attempts on fourth down.

Chamon-enal

• Chamon Metayer snagged a touchdown for the third straight game in the first quarter. It’s Metayer’s 14th career touchdown reception and the fourth this season
• He is the first tight end to have a touchdown reception in three-straight games for the Sun Devils since Kody Kohl in 2014. 
• Matayer has 18 catches for 210 yards with three touchdowns in the last four games alone. In the first six, he had just 12 catches for 160 yards and one touchdown.
• Metayer’s nine touchdowns as a Sun Devil are tied for the fourth most for an ASU tight end since 1996 (Chris Coyle).

Living in a Sims-ulation

• Jeff Sims’ three touchdown passes tied a career high and it’s the fourth time he’s tossed three touchdown passes in his career. The last coming against Virginia on Oct. 23, 2021 as a member of Georgia Tech.
• Sims posted his second-straight game with at least 175 passing yards (207) and 75 rushing yards (81), becoming the first Sun Devil since at least 1996 to accomplish the feat in consecutive games. 
• Sims won consecutive games as a starting quarterback for the first time since he was at Georgia Tech in 2022.

Spreading the wealth

• With Derek Eusebio, Chamon Metayer and Raleek Brown all receiving a touchdown in the game, the Sun Devils had a wide receiver, tight end AND running back catch a touchdown for the first time in a game since Oct. 29, 2015 in a 61-55 (3OT) loss to Oregon.
• In the first half alone, Sims found five different receivers for 174 yards and three touchdown passes.
• Eleven different Sun Devils got an offensive touch on Saturday (counting Jesus Gomez’s two-point pass to Cameron Harpole). 

Milestone watch

• Linebacker Keyshaun Elliott played in his 50th career game, recording five tackles, one sack and one tackle for loss.
• Defensive back Myles Rowser is one game played away from 50 career games played (currently at 49). Rowser is also 19 tackles away from 300 career tackles (currently at 281.

The ASU victory...

• Improved ASU to 3-0 in Homecoming games under Kenny Dillingham. ASU had not won three consecutive Homecoming contests since 2013-15.
• Gave ASU consecutive seven-win seasons for the first time since 2017-19.
• Kept the Sun Devils within at least a game back in the loss column of the top two teams in the Big 12 (TTU/BYU).
• Improved ASU to 3-0 in games played on TNT-HBO Max this season.
• Moved the Sun Devils to 5-2 in program history against Rich Rodriguez

No rush

• West Virginia managed just 68 rushing yards on 39 carries, which was tied for its 10th-lowest total since the 2020 season (72 games)
• West Virginia had surpassed at least 140 rushing yards in 40 of its previous 48 games (83.3 percent since 2022)
• With today’s effort, ASU has now held opponents to 140 or fewer yards in 25 of 36 games (69.4 percent) in the Kenny Dillingham era. 
• The Sun Devils have held opponents under 100 rushing yards 17 times in the 36 games in the Dillingham/Ward era. Between the 2018-22 seasons, it had happened just 13 total times in 55 games. 

Hold on to your butts

• The Sun Devils moved to 10-1 over the last two seasons in games decided by seven or fewer points - the most such victories in the FBS.
• ASU’s 10 such victories in a two-year span are tied for the most over a two-season span in Big 12 history and tied for the eighty-most for any FBS team since the 1996 season. 
• ASU’s 10-1 record over the last two seasons in games decided by seven or fewer points is the fourth-best win percentage in such games over a two-year stretch (90.9) by an FBS team since the 1996 season (min. 10 such games).
• Arizona State has trailed at some point in the fourth quarter in four of its seven victories this season.
• Jesus Gomez has kicked a game-winning field goal in the final three minutes of regulation in three victories this season. He is now tied with Ethan Sanchez of Houston (coincidentally this season as well) for the most such game-winners in the final three minutes of regulation/OT in Big 12 history. 
• Since Kenny Dillingham took the reins in 2023, 14 of the 21 Sun Devil victories in that time have been by 10 points or less. 

Time and time again

• ASU has controlled the ball for over 32 minutes in 17 of 36 games (47.2 percent) under Kenny Dillingham. It had reached the 32-minute mark just 17 times in 55 games from 2018-22 (30.9 percent)
• The Sun Devils are 15-6 under Dillingham when leading in time of possession compared to a 6-9 mark when they don’t. 
• ASU - which finished with 32:34 today - entered the contest eighth in the FBS in averaging 33:06 minutes of possession per game.