Arizona State fans storm field with time on clock, causing lengthy delay; Sun Devils post last-second win

The last 2nd of Saturday's Arizona State-BYU game took astir 15 minutes to play due to the fact that fans stormed the tract reasoning the crippled was over.

Up 28-23 with 7 seconds near connected 4th down, ASU backmost Sam Leavitt dropped backmost and launched the shot retired of bounds to termination the clock.

The timepiece initially work zeroes, prompting fans to tempest the tract and celebrate.

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Arizona State fans tempest the tract aft a 28-23 triumph implicit BYU successful a crippled Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, successful Tempe, Ariz. (Associated Press )

As fans went wild, the officials reviewed however overmuch clip was near connected the timepiece and yet ruled 1 2nd remained.

That resulted successful thousands of radical being forced to permission the field.

The full ordeal took implicit 13 minutes.

BYU had the ball astatine its ain 49, and Jake Retzlaff went for the Hail Mary, which was caught, but conscionable abbreviated of the extremity line, ending the crippled and giving Arizona State the win.

Fans hadn't adjacent made it backmost to their seats, and the sidelines were filled with rows of people.

The determination to tempest the tract whitethorn beryllium a spot odd. Arizona State is ranked little than BYU, which led the Big 12 entering the game. But Vegas had the Sun Devils arsenic 3.5-point favorites.

Arizona State antiaircraft backmost Shamari Simmons, center, celebrates with fans aft a 28-23 triumph implicit BYU Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, successful Tempe, Ariz.  (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Arizona State was yards distant from icing the crippled connected a last-minute interception, but it was stopped 7 yards short. After a four-yard unreserved connected archetypal down, the Sun Devils decided to tally astir the backfield to tally retired the clock. The out-of-bounds walk came connected 4th and extremity from astir midfield.

But the Sun Devils avoided a catastrophe, and Arizona State fans celebrated without further interruption.

The triumph was immense for Arizona State, which needs 1 much triumph and an Iowa State nonaccomplishment successful its last 2 games to gain a travel to the Big 12 title crippled and a changeable astatine the College Football Playoff. The Sun Devils benefited from Colorado's nonaccomplishment to Kansas moments earlier.

Arizona State Sun Devils fans observe during a crippled against the BYU Cougars Nov. 23, 2024, astatine Mountain America Stadium successful Tempe, Ariz.  (Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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Arizona State, 9-2 with a 6-2 league record, faces in-state rival Arizona connected the roadworthy adjacent week to wrapper up the season.

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