2006 Arizona State Sun Devils football team

The 2006 Arizona State Sun Devils football team represented Arizona State University

Arizona State University

Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

in the college football season of 2006-2007. The team's coach was Dirk Koetter

Dirk Koetter

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who was fired after the season. It played its home games at Sun Devil Stadium

Sun Devil Stadium

Sun Devil Stadium is an outdoor football stadium, located on the campus of Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona, United States. The stadium's current seating capacity is 71,706 and the playing surface is natural grass...

in Tempe, Arizona

Tempe, Arizona

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Schedule

Northern Arizona

at Sun Devil Stadium
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, Tempe, Arizona
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Broadcast: FSN

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Arizona.

Rudy Carpenter

Rudy Carpenter

Rudy Carpenter is an American football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. He was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2009...

threw for 261 yards and 2 TDs and an interception as The Sun Devils needed a strong fourth quarter to beat I-AA Northern Arizona at home.

Nevada

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Arizona.

ASU had 575 total yards, as Rudy Carpenter threw for 333 yards and 5 TDs (to 5 different receivers) and an interception and the Sun Devils rolled over the Wolf Pack. RB Ryan Torain led ASU with 70 yards and a touchdown on 8 carries.

Colorado

at Folsom Field
Folsom Field
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, Boulder, Colorado
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Broadcast: FSN

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Arizona.

ASU had 440 total yards, as Rudy Carpenter threw for 248 yards, 2 TDs, and 2 INTs and the Sun Devils defeated the Buffaloes. ASU RBs Keegan Herring and Ryan Torain combined for 162 yards and 1 TD on 27 carries. The ASU defense held Colorado QB Bernard Jackson to 86 passing yards.

California

at California Memorial Stadium
California Memorial Stadium
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, Berkeley, California
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Broadcast: FSN

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Arizona.

Ryan Torain rushed for 185 yards and 1 TD, but Rudy Carpenter threw 4 INTs as the Sun Devils struggled all afternoon against the Golden Bears. The ASU defense, who had only given up 38 points all year, gave up 396 yards on defense.

Oregon

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Ryan Torain rushed for 113 yards, but Rudy Carpenter completed only 6 passes for 33 yards as the Sun Devils never led against the Ducks. The Sun Devil offense only went 1-13 on 3rd down conversions, and could only muster 213 total yards. The ASU defense coughed up 584 yards, a season high.

USC

at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California

The ASU defense caused 4 USC turnovers, but they could only manage 266 total yards as the Sun Devils lost a close one to USC, 28-21. Rudy Carpenter went 12-21 with 124 yards. Ryan Torain collected 96 total yards and a touchdown.

Stanford

Washington

at Husky Stadium
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, Seattle, Washington
Homecoming weekend in Seattle was ruined by a walk-off Carpenter to Brent Miller TD pass in Overtime.

Oregon State

at Reser Stadium
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Washington State

UCLA

Arizona

at Arizona Stadium
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, Tucson, Arizona
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Hawai'i Bowl

Previous meeting: Hawaii
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29, Arizona State 17 (1979)

at Aloha Stadium
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, Honolulu, Hawaii
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Colt Brennan broke the NCAA single-season record for touchdown passes with 58, throwing five in the second half to lead Hawaii to a 41-24 victory over Arizona State in the Hawaii Bowl.

Brennan, 33-of-42 for 559 yards, threw a 7-yard scoring pass to Ryan Grice-Mullen on the Warriors' second series of the second half to break the previous mark of 54 set by Houston's David Klingler in 1990, also against the Sun Devils.

Brennan tied the record with his 54th TD pass on the previous series, throwing a 38-yard scoring pass to Jason Rivers.

Brennan and Rivers, selected the co-MVPs for Hawaii, also teamed on the final touchdown pass, a 79-yarder late in the fourth quarter. Rivers finished the game with 308 yards on 14 catches, the most in a college bowl game since 1937, which is as far as the record books go back.

Brennan also set the WAC single-season record for most passing yards (5,549), which was previously held by BYU's Ty Detmer

Ty Detmer

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in 1990.

The Warrior offense racked up a season high 680 total yards, while the defense held Arizona State to 391 yards, sacked Sun Devil quarterback Rudy Carpenter

Rudy Carpenter

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four times, and forced two fumbles, one in the red zone halting an ASU drive, and another which led to a field goal.

Brennan finished the season with 5,549 yards to become just the third quarterback in college history with 5,000 yards and 50 TDs in a season, joining Klingler and Texas Tech's B.J. Symons

B.J. Symons

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.

Hawaii (11-3) matched the school mark for most wins in a season, set in 1992 when the team went 11-2. The Sun Devils (7-6) concluded their disappointing season, unable to send coach Dirk Koetter

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out with a win. He coached his final game after being fired the previous month. Dennis Erickson

Dennis Erickson

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has been hired to take over the team.

Game MVPs: Jason Rivers, WR & Colt Brennan, QB: Hawaii. Ryan Torain, RB: Arizona State

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