Due to a change in the Pacific-10 Conference's acclimatization period, the Arizona State University football team will spend an extra day at Camp Tontozona this fall, thus providing for a traditional Saturday scrimmage while at Camp for the first time in a few seasons. It will also allow the team to conduct two practices on the first day of camp.
The Sun Devils, scheduled to depart for Camp Tontozona workouts on Wednesday, August 10, will now leave for Camp on Tuesday, August 9th in the late afternoon. This will allow the squad to conduct two practices on Wednesday, August 10. There will be two scrimmages, complete with officials, held while the team is at Camp Tontozona. The first will be at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 13 while the second will be at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, August 19. Both scrimmages will end at approximately 11:30 a.m. The team will break Camp following the August 19 scrimmage and return to the Valley.
Camp Tontozona two-a-days will be held on August 10, 12, 14 and 16 with practices running from 8:30-11 a.m. and 4-6 p.m. Single practices will be held on August 11, 15, 17 and 18 from 8:30-11:15 a.m.
Practices during the acclimatization period will run from Friday, August 5 through Tuesday, August 9 at the Kajikawa Practice Facility. Practices will run from 7:30-10:30 a.m. daily, except for August 5 which will be 6-9 p.m. due to second session summer school final exams.
All practices during the acclimatization period in Tempe and at Camp Tontozona are open to the general public and the media.
Southern California's defending national co-champions left no doubt as to whom the college football champion was in 2004. The 12-0 Trojans led both major polls throughout the regular season, then trounced unbeaten No. 2 Oklahoma 55-19 in the FedEx Orange Bowl on Jan. 4 for their 13th victory. ASU Sun Devils Football Tickets can be found above. And there really good seats. Junior quarterback Matt Leinart, winner of both the Heisman Trophy and the Walter Camp Award, passed for 332 yards and an Orange Bowl record five touchdowns as USC won its 22nd consecutive game and confirmed its 10th national title.
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Auburn fans were disappointed that the Tigers (12-0 in regular season), winner of the SEC and victor over Virginia Tech 16-13 in the Nokia Sugar Bowl, had to settle for a final No. 3 ranking behind USC and Oklahoma. Utah fans, however, were delighted to see their Utes (11-0 in regular season) not only make it to a BCS bowl but clobber Pittsburgh 35-7 in the Fiesta Bowl. The Mountain West champions finished with a No. 5 national ranking.
The nation's other major unbeaten team, Western Athletic Conference champion Boise State (11-0), fell to Louisville (10-1 in regular season) 44-40 in the highest-scoring Liberty Bowl game ever. The Cardinals, in their last year in Conference USA before heading to the Big East, had led the nation with a 49.8 scoring average, while Boise State had averaged 49.7.
Utah and Auburn shared the national Coach of the Year awards, Urban Meyer of Utah winning the Football Writers award and Tommy Tuberville of Auburn taking the Football Coaches award.
Oklahoma may have finished with a disappointing loss in the Orange Bowl, but quarterback Jason White, the 2003 Heisman Trophy winner, won the 2004 Maxwell Award as well as the Davey O'Brien and Johnny Unitas quarterback awards.
The Outland Trophy went to another Oklahoma player, offensive tackle Jamaal Brown, while defensive end David Pollack of Georgia won the Vince Lombardi/Rotary Award along with the Chuck Bednarik Award.
Other notable 2004 season events included: