Arizona State beat Colorado 20-10 on Saturday night at Mountain America Stadium in Tempe, Ariz., holding the Buffaloes scoreless in the first half and dropping them to 3-6 and 1-5 in the Big 12. It was Colorado’s ninth straight conference road loss, according to CU.
Carson Smith’s 31-yard field goal put the Sun Devils up 3-0 in the first quarter. Running back Cardae Mack took a direct snap on fourth-and-goal from the 1 and threw a touchdown pass to quarterback Jake Fette, and Fette hit Reed Harris for a 34-yard score late in the half for a 17-0 lead. Colorado’s best chance before halftime, a 74-yard touchdown pass from Isaac Wilson to Ernest Campbell, came back on a penalty. Elliott Arnold kicked a 39-yard field goal at the end of the third quarter, and after Smith added a 21-yarder, Wilson found Joseph Williams for a 7-yard touchdown on a drive kept alive by an Arizona State penalty on a field-goal attempt.
Colorado finished with more yards, 312 to 304, but only 103 came in the first half, 62 of those in the final 45 seconds. The Buffs ran for 64 yards on 34 carries, and Wilson was sacked four times. Fette, a freshman making his second career start, went 13 of 19 for 187 yards. Williams caught seven passes for 121 yards, and linebacker Gideon Lampron had a career-high 18 tackles with two sacks.
“They made plays, and we didn’t,” coach Deion Sanders told CU Athletics.
Colorado hosts No. 17 Houston on Friday, Nov. 13, at 8:15 p.m. at Folsom Field.
