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Plagued by a stumbling start, missed assignments, botched playsand a horrendous day on special teams, the Sun Devils fell wellshort in what was supposed to be a measuring-stick game against theCardinal on Saturday.

''No doubt, that was the most upset I was because that was agame I wanted really bad to win - not play well, in,'' Graham saidduring his weekly news conference Monday. ''We didn't giveourselves a chance and that's frustrating because that's my job toprepare our team to do that and we fell short of that.''

What Graham hopes is that the Sun Devils learn from theirmistakes so they don't happen again.

They've got a lot of work to do in a short amount of time withSouthern California coming up next in the third of four straighttough games for Arizona State Wholesale Basket Lebron XI.

The Trojans may not be the offensive juggernaut they once were,but have shown flashes, scoring at least 30 points against Hawaiiand Boston College. USC has one of the nation's dynamic playmakersin receiver Marqise Lee and a defense that has yet to allow anopponent to gain 300 yards or score more than 14 points.

The Trojans also have history on their side, having won 11 oftheir past 12 games against Arizona State.

''They're a very talented football team,'' Graham said. ''Very,very impressive they way they play defense. A good team and we'vegot a lot of work to get ready to play against them.''

To have a chance against USC, the Sun Devils will have to getoff to a much better start than they did against Stanford.

Hoping to make a mark against a top-5 team, Arizona Statestumbled instead, falling behind 29-0 by halftime and 39-7 throughthree quarters. The Sun Devils managed to close the gap with threetouchdowns in the fourth quarter to make the score at leastrespectable at 42-28.

A nice rally, but it was the way the Sun Devils got into thathole that concerned Graham.

The most glaring problem was on special teams.

Graham and his staff have emphasized special teams all season,yet the Sun Devils bumbled their way through that part of the gameagainst Stanford.

It started when Stanford's Ty Montgomery returned the openingkickoff and only got worse from there. The Sun Devils had one puntblocked when Matt Haack kicked the ball into the back of a teammateand another when quarterback Taylor Kelly's pooch kick went toolow.

Arizona State also had a delay of game penalty on a punt andgave up a touchdown last week against Wisconsin thanks to a wildsnap and a poor decision by punter Dom Vizzare, who tried to pickthe ball up instead of falling on it or kicking it out of the endzone.

''You have that many mistakes in the kicking game, it will be apriority in practice,'' Graham said. ''You can't spend any moretime in practice on special teams than we have. It's the most I'veever spent. There's things we need to get better. We need to havethem better prepared and ready for Saturday.''

The Devils at least should have something to build on afterrallying against the Cardinal.

Trailing by more than four touchdowns, the Sun Devils finallyfound a rhythm offensively, setting up Kelly for three touchdownpasses in the fourth quarter.

It wasn't enough after the huge early hole, but it at leastshowed the Sun Devils they could hang with one of the nation's bestteams, even if it was only for a quarter,

''Our guys showed great heart and character in the way they cameback,'' Graham said KD 6 GS Sale Online. ''The last two games, we've been behind andthe guys have shown a lot of character coming back.''

Now they have to come back and see if they can build on itagainst USC.