TEMPE -- This past fall, maroon and gold mixed to make green in Tempe.
ASU football won 11 games in 2024, its most this century. The Sun Devils took the Big 12 Conference by storm, winning a Big 12 title in its inaugural season in the league and ASU’s first outright conference championship since winning the Pac-10 in 1996.
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