1996 Arizona State Sun Devils football team

1996 Arizona State Sun Devils football
Pac-10 Champions
Rose Bowl, L 17–20 vs. Ohio State
Conference	Pacific-10 Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 4
AP	No. 4
1996 record	11–1 (8–0 Pac-10)
Head coach	Bruce Snyder
Offensive coordinator	Dan Cozzetto
Defensive coordinator	Phil Snow
Home stadium	Sun Devil Stadium (Capacity: 73,379)

1996 Pacific-10 football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
#4 Arizona State $		8	–	0		11	–	1
#16 Washington		7	–	1		9	–	3
Stanford		5	–	3		7	–	5
UCLA		4	–	4		5	–	6
Oregon		3	–	5		6	–	5
California		3	–	5		6	–	6
USC		3	–	5		6	–	6
Arizona		3	–	5		5	–	6
Washington State		3	–	5		5	–	6
Oregon State		1	–	7		2	–	9

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1996 Arizona State Sun Devils football team represented the Arizona State University in the 1996 NCAA Division I-A college football season. The team's head coach was Bruce Snyder, who was coaching his fifth season with the Sun Devils and 17th season overall. Home games were played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. They participated as members of the Pacific-10 Conference.

Regular season

In 1996, the Sun Devils went a surprising 11–1, highlighted by a 19–0 shutout of the number-one-ranked, two-time defending national champion, Nebraska Cornhuskers in Tempe, ending Nebraska's 26-game win streak. The upset win also gained a measure of revenge from the previous season, when they went into Lincoln and were not only destroyed by a 77–28 margin, but enraged after the eventual national champions threw a long touchdown pass in the game's final minutes. ASU quarterback Jake Plummer led the Sun Devils, propelling Arizona State into the Rose Bowl against the Ohio State Buckeyes. Had the Sun Devils won, they would have had a very good chance of winning at least a share of the national championship, as they would have been the only undefeated major-college team in the nation. The Sun Devils held a slim 17–14 lead with 1:47 left in the fourth quarter, but surrendered a late touchdown to Ohio State, falling by a final score of 20–17. As it turned out, Florida State lost in the Sugar Bowl to the Florida Gators; had the Sun Devils won a few days earlier, ASU would have had a perfect 12–0 record while the Gators would have finished with one regular season loss (ironically, to the Seminoles).

Schedule

The Sun Devils finished the season with an 11–1 record.

Date	Time	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 7	7:00 PM	Washington	No. 20	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ	FSN	W 45–42	73,379
September 14	7:00 PM	North Texas*	No. 18	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ		W 52–7	46,173
September 21	7:15 PM	No. 1 Nebraska*	No. 17	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ	FSN	W 19–0	74,089
September 28	3:30 PM	Oregon	No. 6	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ	FSN	W 48–27	54,618
October 5	7:00 PM	Boise State*	No. 5	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ		W 56–7	49,018
October 12	12:30 PM	at UCLA	No. 4	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA	ABC	W 42–34	66,107
October 19	12:30 PM	USC	No. 4	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ	ABC	W 48–35 ^2OT	74,947
October 26	12:30 PM	at Stanford	No. 4	Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA	ABC	W 41–9	32,550
November 2	2:00 PM	at Oregon State	No. 4	Parker Stadium • Corvallis, OR		W 29–14	21,946
November 9	4:30 PM	California	No. 4	Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ	FSN	W 35–7	74,963
November 23	4:30 PM	at Arizona	No. 4	Arizona Stadium • Tucson, AZ (Duel in the Desert)	FSN	W 56–14	59,920
January 1	1:30 PM	vs. No. 4 Ohio State*	No. 2	Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA (Rose Bowl)	ABC	L 17–20	100,635
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to game. All times are in Mountain Standard Time.

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1996 Team Players in the NFL

The following players were claimed in the 1997 NFL Draft.

Player	Position	Round	Pick	NFL Club
Juan Roque	Tackle	2	35	Detroit Lions
Jake Plummer	Quarterback	2	42	Arizona Cardinals
Derek M. Smith	Outside Linebacker	3	80	Washington Redskins
Derrick Rodgers	Outside Linebacker	3	92	Miami Dolphins
Keith Poole	Wide Receiver	4	116	New Orleans Saints
Scott Von der Ahe	Linebacker	6	182	Indianapolis Colts
Shawn Swayda	Defensive Tackle	6	196	Chicago Bears
Terry Battle	Running Back	7	206	Detroit Lions

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Awards and honors

Jake Plummer, Third in Heisman Trophy balloting
Bruce Snyder - Paul "Bear" Bryant Award^[3]

References

Arizona State Sun Devils football

Venues	Normal Field (1897–1926) Irish Field (1927–1935) Goodwin Stadium (1936–1957) Sun Devil Stadium (1958–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Arizona (Territorial Cup)

Culture & lore	Sparky the Sun Devil "Maroon & Gold" Marching band

People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders

Seasons	1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

National championship seasons in bold

Pac-12 Conference football champions

Pacific Coast	Washington (1916) Washington State (1917) California (1918) Oregon & Washington (1919) California (1920) California (1921) California (1922) California (1923) Stanford (1924) Washington (1925) Stanford (1926) Idaho, Stanford, & USC (1927) USC (1928) USC (1929) Washington State (1930) USC (1931) USC (1932) Oregon & Stanford (1933) Stanford (1934) California, Stanford, & UCLA (1935) Washington (1936) California (1937) California & USC (1938) USC (1939) Stanford (1940) Oregon State (1941) UCLA (1942) USC (1943) USC (1944) USC (1945) UCLA (1946) USC (1947) California & Oregon (1948) California (1949) California (1950) Stanford (1951) USC (1952) UCLA (1953) UCLA (1954) UCLA (1955) Oregon State (1956) Oregon & Oregon State (1957) California (1958)

AAWU	UCLA, USC, & Washington (1959) Washington (1960) UCLA (1961) USC (1962) Washington (1963) Oregon State & USC (1964) UCLA (1965) USC (1966) USC (1967)

Pacific-8	USC (1968) USC (1969) Stanford (1970) Stanford (1971) USC (1972) USC (1973) USC (1974) California & UCLA (1975) USC (1976) Washington (1977)

Pacific-10	USC (1978) USC (1979) Washington (1980) Washington (1981) UCLA (1982) UCLA (1983) USC (1984) UCLA (1985) Arizona State (1986) USC & UCLA (1987) USC (1988) USC (1989) Washington (1990) Washington (1991) Washington & Stanford (1992) Arizona, UCLA, & USC (1993) Oregon (1994) USC & Washington (1995) Arizona State (1996) UCLA & Washington State (1997) UCLA (1998) Stanford (1999) Oregon, Oregon State, & Washington (2000) Oregon (2001) USC & Washington State (2002) USC (2003) USC (2004) vacated USC (2005) vacated California & USC (2006) Arizona State & USC (2007) USC (2008) Oregon (2009) Oregon (2010)

Pac-12	Oregon (2011) Stanford (2012) Stanford (2013) Oregon (2014) Stanford (2015) Washington (2016)

National championships in bold

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