By Aaron Schmidt, Arizona Sports: Arizona State football starting the season 5-1 was not on anybody’s 2024 bingo card. Especially after the last couple of years, back-to-back 3-9 campaigns and a recruiting scandal that led to the departure of coaches Herm Edwards and Antonio Pierce alongside athletic director Ray Anderson. The cherry on top: leaving the Pac-12 conference to join the Big 12 for the start of the 2024 campaign.