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Sun Devil Football Record 2008 1-0 - Head Coach: Dennis Erickson

Game One - August 30 - Northern Arizona University
Big Sky Conference:  ASU 30 NAU 13
Head Coach: Jerome Souers
7:22 PM at Sun Devil Stadium
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Aug. 31, 2008 Game Story and Notes by ASU staff.

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - Rudy Carpenter threw for 388 yards and a touchdown, and Dimitri Nance ran for two touchdowns to lead No. 15 Arizona State past Northern Arizona 30-13 on Saturday night. Carpenter completed 22 of 28 passes, including 13 in a row in the first half to tie a school record. He also rushed for a team-high 40 yards.

The Sun Devils, coming off a 10-3 season and a Holiday Bowl loss, wasted little time jumping on the Lumberjacks, who haven't beaten ASU since 1938. Arizona State needed only five plays to score. Carpenter hit Kerry Taylor with a short pass over the middle and Taylor sprinted untouched for a 52-yard touchdown. It was Carpenter's 66th career touchdown pass, second on Arizona State's all-time list. The leader is Andrew Walter, with 85.

Thomas Weber kicked a 34-yard field goal to give the Sun Devils a 10-0 lead after one quarter. That reversed a troubling trend from last season. ASU led after the first quarter only three times last year, and it was outscored 128-50 in the first quarter. Arizona State went up 17-0 on a 3-yard run by Nance midway through the second quarter. He added a 6-yard run a few minutes later to put the Sun Devils up 24-0.

Nance rushed for 500 yards and seven touchdowns a year ago. Senior Keegan Herring, who has a hamstring injury, did not play. Weber also connected from 28 and 26 yards.

Northern Arizona quarterback Lance Kriesien hit Brian Riley for a 3-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter, and Robbie Dehaze kicked field goals of 21 and 25 yards for the Lumberjacks.

The game was the first of four home games to open the season for the Sun Devils, who play host to Pac-10 rival Stanford next week. UNLV visits on Sept. 13, followed by No. 1 Georgia on Sept. 20.

 GAME NOTES

Aug. 30, 2008

Arizona State Notes:
• In Openers & the Series: With the victory, the Sun Devils improved to 67-27-2 all-time in season openers and 47-15-1 when opening their season at home. Against their intrastate rivals, the Sun Devils improved to 19-14-4 all-time and 12-6-2 in games played in Tempe.
• Early Birds: Arizona State's Aug. 30 opening game against Northern Arizona matches the second-earliest start date in program history, topped only by the Aug. 24, 2002, Black Coaches Association Classic contest at Nebraska. In 2002, ASU played 13 regular season games and then made a Holiday Bowl appearance. ASU's latest start date (since 1954, when 10-game schedules were the norm) was a Sept. 23, 1961, 21-7 win over Wichita State in Frank Kush's fourth season. The year ASU won the Rose Bowl (1986), the season kicked off on Sept. 13. August 30 is the second-earliest Dennis Erickson has opened a season, as his 2002 Oregon State squad opened with a 49-10 win over Eastern Kentucky in Corvallis on Aug. 29.
• Turning the Tables: Saturday night against Northern Arizona, the Sun Devils opened the game with a 10-0 lead through the first quarter of play. Last year, ASU only led three opponents (San Jose State, San Diego State and Stanford) after the first period of action. In fact, the Sun Devils trailed at the end of one stanza in their final seven games of the season and was outscored, 128-50, in the first quarter last year.
• Passing Fancy: With his 13-yard completion to Chris McGaha on the second play from scrimmage, Rudy Carpenter surpassed the 8,000 yard passing mark in his career. Carpenter completed the game with 388 yards on 22-of-28 passing with one touchdown, bringing his career totals in each category to 8,386 yards and 66 touchdowns, ranking him 16th and 11th, respectively, on the all-time Pac-10 charts. His 388 yards in the game marked the 10th time in his career that he surpassed 300 yards through the air. The last time he threw for 300 yards was at Oregon last year (379). Carpenter also a stretch in the second quarter where he connected on 13 passes in a row, tying him with Dick Mackey for the best performance in program history. Mackey threw 13 completions in a row against San Diego Navy in 1952.
• Better to Receive: A pair of Sun Devil receivers had career games Saturday as Michael Jones hauled in 162 yards on six grabs and Kerry Taylor collected four passes for 93 yards, including a 52-yard touchdown. Jones' previous game-high came in 2006 when you putting in seven passes for 142 yards at the Hawaii Bowl. Taylor, with his 52-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter, not only equaled his scoring output form his freshman season (2007), he also totaled one yard less than his season total from last year (53 yards on eight receptions).
• More on the Receivers: The Sun Devils were seven yards away from having a pair of 100-yard receivers in the same game for the first time since the 2004 season (Jones 162 & Taylor 93). The last time ASU had two 100-yard rushers was against Stanford in 2004 when Derek Hagen (108) and Terry Richardson (107) accomplished the feat.
• Hash Marks: Freshman Thomas Ohmart celebrated his 20th birthday today by also seeing his first collegiate action. The snapper from Scottsdale, Ariz., was in on three field goals and three extra points in the victory... After NAU pinned the Sun Devils on their own one yard line with a punt, ASU produced a 99-yard drive that was capped by a 3-yard touchdown run by Dimitri Nance.

Northern Arizona Notes:
• Robbie Dehaze tied Archie Amerson for second-place on the career points scored list with 228 points with his third-quarter field goal. Micky Penaflor holds the school record with 242 points from 1987-89.
• Punter Robbie Dehaze tied his career-best with a 63-yard punt in the third quarter.
• NAU was on pace to tie or break the single-game punting records entering the fourth quarter with 10 for the game. The school record for punts in a game is 11, occurring four times in school history with the last coming in 1999 vs. New Mexico. The most punt yards for a NAU team in a game was 490 against Idaho in 1979.
• Senior Lance Kriesien started the season opener at quarterback for the second consecutive season. Sophomore Michael Herrick entered the game in the second quarter for his first collegiate action after sitting out two seasons at Ole Miss.