There are few certainties in life, but one of them is that Arizona will suffer a major setback a year after its breakout season.

The Wildcats ended a hugely disappointing 2024 season with perhaps their worst performance of the fall, losing 49-7 at home to No. 14 ASU on Saturday afternoon at Arizona Stadium. And with that, the UA posted the largest single-season win decline in school history.

Arizona (4-8, 2-7 Big 12) finished with six fewer wins than in 2023, when they won 10 for the fourth time in school history. This decline matches the 1999 team, which went 6-6 after posting a school-best 12-1 in 1998.

ASU (10-2, 7-2) scored on its first four possessions and led 35-0 at halftime, only slightly worse than its 42-0 start to the 70-7 debacle four years ago. The Sun Devils totaled 643 yards, the most in Territorial Cup history, including 281 on the ground, including 177 yards Cam Skattebo on 21 carries with three 1s^st-half touchdowns. quarterback Sam Leavitt was 17 of 22 for 291 yards and three TDs and receiver Jordyn Tyson had eight catches for 143 yards and a score.

Arizona gained 210 yards, the fewest in a Territorial Cup since 168 in 2006 and the fewest in a game since 2019. The season-low was 126 yards Noah Fifita on the 14th of 29 over Tetairoa McMillan In his final college game, he had eight catches for 68 yards and a touchdown, giving him 92nd career receiving yards^nd in FBS history.

Brent Brennan became the fourth consecutive UA coach to lose the Territorial Cup in his first season, and the loss by 42 points was the worst in a T Cup debut in series history. The worst value so far was 40% Ed Doherty’s 1957 team.

ASU scored on its first possession, which Skattebo fired into the goal with a direct shot from two yards out. He had 34 yards on the drive. Arizona got into ASU territory in two plays on its first drive, but then stalled and missed a punt, an early sign that the Wildcats were unwilling to take risks.

The Sun Devils then quickly marched back downfield, the big playing a 59-yard catch-and-run Tyson That set up Skattebo’s second 2-yard TD run on another straight snap. The Wildcats were outscored 108-58 in the first quarter this season.

ASU made it 21-0 early in the second quarter on a 13-yard TD catch by Tyson, who caught an inside screen and shot through the UA defense. Two pieces earlier Kyson Brown gained 28 yards with a jet sweep on 3rd^approx and 10 when Arizona loaded the box but no one was outside.

Arizona finally accomplished something when Jeremiah Patterson returned the game-winning kickoff 61 yards to the ASU 37, only to see the Wildcats do nothing from there. They settled for a 50-yard field goal attempt, which was good, but it was a false start as the UA was missing a player and had one run down the field just before the snap.

Loop then missed the 55-yard attempt and six minutes later Skattebo scored with a 3-yard run to make it 28-0.

The UA managed to stop ASU’s fifth drive, forcing a punt and, thanks to a couple of Sun Devil penalties, got within the 35 with less than two minutes left before halftime. But with two chances to gain two yards Quali Conley won one and one and turned it around in losses.

ASU made it 35-0 less than a minute later on a 22-yard TD pass from Leavitt Chamon Metayer.

Arizona won 390-57 in the first half and went 75 on the first drive of the third quarter. The final 28 came on a TD pass from Fifita to McMillan, the 16th^Th and final scoring tie of her UA career.

ASU, which ran for 148 yards in the first half, gained 68 yards in three plays and immediately got back to the UA 10, but then had to settle for a 21-yard field goal that missed the right upright. But after the Wildcats made it near midfield, they decided to punt on 4th^Th and 2, down 28 late in the third quarter.

The Sun Devils had their own 4^Th On the first play of the final quarter, which needed eight yards, he decided to make a game-winning attempt and Leavitt scored Xavier Guillory over the top for a 31-yard TD pass and a 42-7 lead.

ASU’s backups then added a senior TD with 10:56 remaining Trenton Bourguetwho is from Marana, threw a 64-yard pass Derek Eusebio for his first career reception.