You can't start off your season any better than 1-0, but the Arizona State Sun Devils football team exceeded our expectations for its opening game of the college football 2022 season! The Sun Devils took the NAU Lumberjacks football team behind the woodshed on Thursday night to the tune of a 40-3 victory and both sides of the ball looked incredibly efficient and deadly. Offensively, Emory Jones was everything Sun Devils fans had hoped for, as the transfer quarterback completed over 70% of his passes and scored two touchdowns on the ground. Speaking of the ground game, the team accumulated 267-yards and four total touchdowns led by Xazavian Valladay and his 115-yard, two-touchdown outing. The passing game looked confident with fine performances from Andre Johnson and Messiah Swinson. Defensively, Arizona State played nearly flawless football, including two interceptions by Chris Edmonds and Kyle Soelle. Merlin Robertson dazzled in the final opening game of his Arizona State Sun Devils football career. The secondary played well in what Herm Edwards described as "vanilla" coverages, but it leaves some hope that they can continue to improve moving forward. Even special teams looked good with Carter Brown going 4/4 on both his field goal and PATs for a complete performance for the Arizona State Sun Devils in week one of the 2022 season. Check out host Richie Bradshaw's breakdown of the Sun Devils' first win of 2022 and hand out three game balls on this edition of the Locked On Sun Devils podcast!

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