SAN DIEGO - Go through Arizona State’s schedule this year, quarterback Rudy Carpenter said, and one can find a tremendous catch by a wide receiver in almost every game.

Last year, Chris McGaha’s receiving statistics at Arizona State were modest, in big part because the then-redshirt freshman was in awe of the major-college playing opportunity he once thought he would never have.

CAMP TONTOZONA - In a recent Arizona State practice, Rudy Burgess caught a pass on a short out pattern and let momentum carry him out of bounds, raising Eric Yarber’s disciplinary antennae.

If the Georgia football team has a weakness, it is in an offensive line that lost its top blocker to injury in the preseason and is breaking in three new starters.

On Jan. 22, Priest Willis slipped on a pair of powder blue football gloves, aligned his hands in the sign of a ‘U’ and confirmed to the college football world what everyone long suspected: He was verbally committing to UCLA.

HONOLULU - Wednesday was one of Dennis Erickson’s busiest days since becoming Arizona State’s football coach. He finalized his staff and signed two local junior college players to letters of intent.

Kyle Williams will be a footnote in the history of the Arizona-Arizona State football rivalry. But it took him just 59 seconds to transform from hero to goat.

PALO ALTO, Calif - All season, Arizona State receivers coach Eric Yarber has implored his charges to play by one rule: Be quarterback friendly.

To hear some college football observers talk about Arizona State and San Diego State, one might think that today’s game between the two schools at Sun Devil Stadium should be called the Underachievement Bowl.

HONOLULU - Despite the swap meet going on in the parking lot outside, Arizona State has no better place to undergo Hawaii Bowl dress rehearsals — Aloha Stadium, site of Sunday’s game.

During a recent Arizona State football practice, Gerell Robinson lined up at wide receiver, ran a quick slant pattern and could not reach the pass as it sailed a few feet in front of him.