{"id":79775,"date":"2025-12-07T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/79775\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T23:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:54:10","slug":"asu-heads-to-el-paso-to-face-duke-in-sun-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/79775\/","title":{"rendered":"ASU heads to El Paso to face Duke in Sun Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 The Sun Devils will be spending New Year\u2019s Eve in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">On Sunday, Arizona State learned its postseason fate. ASU will be playing in the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, where it will face off against Duke of the ACC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">This will be the program\u2019s eighth overall appearance in the Sun Bowl, with the first appearance a 0-0 tie against Catholic in 1940 and the most recent a win over Florida State in 2019. Overall, ASU is 4-2-1 in its Sun Bowl appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In El Paso, ASU will face off against Duke. The Blue Devils won the ACC championship on Saturday over Virginia, sneaking into the game despite a 7-5 record. This will be the second all-time matchup between the programs, with ASU winning in a previous Sun Bowl battle in 2014 36-31. Duke is also the first conference champion to play in that season\u2019s Sun Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">ASU ended the regular season 8-4 and 6-3 in Big 12 play. The defending Big 12 champions entered the season ranked No. 11 in the AP Top 25, but a rash of key injuries impacted the team, including starting quarterback Sam Leavitt missing nearly half the year. Despite the injuries, the team remained competitive and in the race for a spot in the conference championship game until the season finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The 2025 season was the last in which ASU and other former Pac-12 teams were tied to the conference\u2019s bowl games. Beginning in 2026, the Sun Devils will be eligible for the Big 12\u2019s tie-ins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">This will be ASU\u2019s fifth game in the state of Texas since the start of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Sun Bowl will air on Dec. 31 on CBS 5. Kickoff is set for noon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 The Sun Devils will be spending New Year\u2019s Eve in El Paso. On Sunday, Arizona&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[38974,38975,8147,8148,38973,33076,138,140,139,33077,11698,38976,8155],"class_list":["post-79775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-2025-bowl-games","tag-2025-bowl-schedule","tag-arizona-state","tag-asu","tag-asu-football","tag-azfamily","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-phoenix-news","tag-sun-bowl","tag-sun-devil-football","tag-sun-devils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}