PLAYERS TO WATCH
–RB Eno Benjamin scored his 10th rushing touchdown of the season in the first quarter against Utah last week. He has now had 24 runs of more than 15 yards this season. His 175 rushing yards against the Utes moves him to more than 1,000 yards for the season. He has six games this season with at least 100 yards rushing. Only four Sun Devils have seven or more in a season: Freddie Williams and Art Malone (8), Woody Green (7, twice) and Demario Richard (7).
–WR N’Keal Harry, a junior, had his 22nd career touchdown reception, moving him into a tie for fifth all-time in school history in the Sun Devils’ win over Utah last week. Harry has a catch in all 34 games of his career at ASU. It was his first three-touchdown game and third game with multiple receiving touchdowns. He is the first Sun Devil to have three touchdown receptions in a game since Devin Lucien at Cal in 2015. His nine receptions moved him to 195 receptions in his career, good for third in program history. With 161 receiving yards against the Utes, Harry passed 2,500 receiving yards in his career. He heads into the UCLA game with 2,629 career receiving yards, good for sixth in school history.
–S Aashari Crosswell recorded his first career interception in the first quarter against Utah, returning it 47 yards. It came on a play in which Crosswell caught a pass bobbled into the air by a Utah receiver at the goal line.
SERIES HISTORY: ASU trails in its series 20-13-1 against UCLA. The series has been even since 2004 with each team winning seven games. The Sun Devils are 4-3 against the Bruins at Sun Devil Stadium in that span.
QUOTE TO NOTE: “It helps you, it really does. Beating USC obviously was important when you’re going after California players because they’re recruiting the same players we’re recruiting. When you beat Utah, a ranked team, that helps you because we were the underdog at home and we knew that. It’s kind of ironic, Michigan State was a ranked team as well and we fared well against them. We’ve played two really good opponents when they were ranked very high and we’ve been able to win games like that. Now all we have to do is string some together. We haven’t won three games in a row so far, so that should be our next goal to try to win three in a row and see if we can do that.” — Arizona State coach Herm Edwards on beating another ranked team, then-No. 15 Utah, last week.