Kenny Dillingham Explains Recent Practice Schedule Choice

TEMPE -- Arizona State football is heading into the final three weeks of the regular season sporting a 6-3 record and holding an outside shot to return to the Big 12 title game despite suffering a pair of crushing conference losses.

Head coach Kenny Dillingham gave his team the week off from practice last week in an effort to regroup after an emotional week that culminated with a 24-19 win over Iowa State.

The team returned at the beginning of the week, leading up to the home date with the West Virginia Mountaineers on Saturday, with a light practice on Monday morning - Dillingham broke down what was accomplished in the brief tune-up before his press conference.

• “Yeah, we had good energy out there today. Today was just like a kind of get our feet back. It was only a 10 period, like work the kinks out. So Tuesday's practice of a game week is really good. So I think we worked some of the kinks out today."

• "We hit, you know, we got the thought a lot got to play catch. So I thought the guys’ energy was good, you know, like I told the guys, you know, it's a great opportunity for us to, you know, we did something a little bit different. Thought it was necessary, like, let's go and work now, and hopefully it was a good decision.”