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Arizona State is 0 for Pete Carroll

By Chris Dufresne
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With its 14-9 loss to USC, Arizona State fell to 4-5 overall and still has not defeated a Pete Carroll-coached USC team.

What might have been?

The Sun Devils lost at Georgia this year on a late field goal, lost last week on a last-second field goal to California, and lost Saturday by five points.

‘Close doesn’t count anymore,’ Arizona State Coach Dennis Erickson said. ‘We had a chance to win the football game.’

--Chris Dufresne

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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