2005 Arizona State Sun Devils football team

The 2005 Arizona State Sun Devils football team represented Arizona State University in the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. It played its home games at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.^[1]

2005 Arizona State Sun Devils football
Insight Bowl champion
Insight Bowl, W 45–40 vs. Rutgers
Conference	Pacific-10 Conference
Record	7–5 (4–4 Pac-10)
Head coach	Dirk Koetter (5th season)
Defensive coordinator	Bill Miller (1st season)
Home stadium	Sun Devil Stadium (Capacity: 71,706)
Uniform
Seasons ← 2004 2006 →

2005 Pacific-10 Conference football standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
No. 2 USC † $		8	–	0					12	–	1
No. 13 Oregon		7	–	1					10	–	2
No. 16 UCLA		6	–	2					10	–	2
No. 25 California		4	–	4					8	–	4
Arizona State		4	–	4					7	–	5
Stanford		4	–	4					5	–	6
Oregon State		3	–	5					5	–	6
Arizona		2	–	6					3	–	8
Washington State		1	–	7					4	–	7
Washington		1	–	7					2	–	9
$ – Conference champion † – USC later vacated 12 wins (8 in conference) and 1 loss due to NCAA sanctions. Rankings from AP Poll

The September 10 game vs. LSU was scheduled to be played at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, but was moved to Tempe due to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in south Louisiana. LSU's Pete Maravich Assembly Center, which is just north of Tiger Stadium, was serving as a triage center for seriously injured victims from the storm. Arizona State had to grant dispensation for ESPN to televise the game, as the Pac-10 did not have a broadcast contract in place with ESPN at the time, and for the use of Southeastern Conference game officials in a Pac-10 stadium.

After a victory over the Arizona Wildcats in the Territorial Cup, Arizona State went on to play in the 2005 Insight Bowl defeating the Rutgers Scarlet Knights 45-40 for their second consecutive bowl victory in a row.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 1	7:00 pm	Temple*	No. 20	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, Arizona		W 63–16	50,049^[2]
September 10	6:15 pm	No. 5 LSU*	No. 15	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, Arizona	ESPN	L 31–35	63,210^[3]
September 17	7:00 pm	Northwestern*	No. 18	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, Arizona		W 52–21	55,029^[4]
September 24	7:00 pm	at Oregon State	No. 18	Reser Stadium Corvallis, Oregon	TBS	W 42–24	41,374^[5]
October 1	12:30 pm	No. 1 USC	No. 14	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, Arizona (College GameDay)	ABC	L 28–38	71,706^[6]
October 8	7:15 pm	No. 25 Oregon	No. 17	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, Arizona	FSN	L 17–31	62,789^[7]
October 22	2:00 pm	at Stanford		Stanford Stadium Stanford, California		L 35–45	31,711^[8]
October 29	3:30 pm	Washington		Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, Arizona		W 44–20	57,678^[9]
November 5	2:00 pm	at Washington State		Martin Stadium Pullman, Washington		W 27–24	31,054^[10]
November 12	5:00 pm	at No. 14 UCLA		Rose Bowl Pasadena, California	ABC	L 35–45	84,983^[11]
November 25	1:00 pm	Arizona		Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, Arizona (Duel in the Desert)	FSN	W 23–20	67,635^[12]
December 27	6:30 pm	vs. Rutgers*		Bank One Ballpark Phoenix, Arizona (Insight Bowl)	ESPN	W 45–40	43,536^[13]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Mountain time

Season summary

Arizona

1 2 3 4 Total Arizona 3 14 3 0 20 • Arizona St 5 0 7 11 23 Date: November 25 Location: Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, Arizona Game start: 3:00 p.m. EST

Scoring summary 1 10:58 ASU Jesse Ainsworth 32 yard field goal Arizona St 3–0 1 7:36 ARIZ Nick Folk 37 yard field goal Tie 3–3 1 3:19 ASU Safety Arizona St 5–3 2 9:37 ARIZ Travis Bell 7 yard pass from Willie Tuitama (Nick Folk kick) Arizona 10–5 2 2:19 ARIZ Mike Bell 1 yard run (Nick Folk kick) Arizona 17–5 3 8:01 ARIZ Nick Folk 47 yard field goal Arizona 20–5 3 5:48 ASU Rudy Burgess 7 yard run (Jesse Ainsworth kick) Arizona 20–12 4 7:52 ASU Terry Richardson 71 yard punt return (Zach Miller pass from Rudy Carpenter) Tie 20–20 4 :09 ASU Jesse Ainsworth 20 yard field goal Arizona St 23–20

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References

1. "Arizona State Sun Devils Football - Sun Devils News, Scores, Stats, Rumors & More". ESPN.
2. The Sun Devils 2005-2006 ^{[dead link]}
3. LSU ^{[dead link]}
4. Northwestern ^{[dead link]}
5. Oregon State ^{[dead link]}
6. College GameDay ^{[dead link]}
7. Oregon ^{[dead link]}
8. Standford ^{[dead link]}
9. Washington ^{[dead link]}
10. Washington State ^{[dead link]}
11. UCLA ^{[dead link]}
12. Arizona ^{[dead link]}
13. Rutgers ^{[dead link]}
14. "Arizona vs. Arizona State - College Football Game Recap - November 25, 2005". ESPN.