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As fentanyl hits Wyoming, policy and funding stymie solutions
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Overdose fatalities are increasing in Wyoming, yet the course to minimizing effects is cluttered with difficulties — from accessing overdose-reversing medications to covering prevention-funding voids.
Sofia Jeremias, WyoFile
ROCK SPRINGTIMES — On a wind-whistling mid-day in very early April, Samantha Sanders and also Camille Montoya gather at the used wood table in Sanders’s neat, sparsely embellished house. Biting on homemade sandwiches, they collect with fellow Wyoming Damage Decrease Collective participants over Zoom.
Sanders created a handout discussing indications of medication overdose, she informs the team, and also intends to disperse it in bars around community. Possibly it’s something they might enter neighborhood colleges, Montoya chips in.
The team considers legal sponsorship, asking yourself if obtaining a costs on following session’s docket need to be a top priority, also if Wyoming might not await even more dynamic medication plans.
Each participant of the eight-person team, which is spread throughout the state, has actually been influenced by material usage somehow.
Montoya’s other half experienced serious opioid-use problem, yet obtained sober after relocating to Shake Springs. After that a physician recommended her companion Adderall, which he started to abuse, she claimed.
Resources were restricted. “I was connecting each day, at all times asking ‘where can I obtain him aid?’” Montoya claimed.
She was informed to kick him outdoors, to require his all-time low, she claimed. “I didn’t recognize what else to do.” Montoya’s other half remained. Quickly, nevertheless, he passed away by self-destruction, she claimed.
Following her loss, Montoya tossed herself right into the job of injury decrease, which intends to “decrease the adverse individual and also public wellness effects of habits related to alcohol and also various other material usage at both the private and also area degrees,” according to the Chemical abuse and also Mental Health And Wellness Solutions Management.
Participants of Wyoming’s cumulative give out the overdose-reversing medication Narcan in strip clubs, bars and also smoke stores. They are learnt fast HIV and also HCV screening. Alex Sessums, a Rock Springs participant, offers her contact number to any kind of one that asks. “Individuals will certainly call me any time day or evening,” she claimed.
The aspirations of the tiny, reasonably incipient team are far-ranging: It intends to alter state legislation and also conserve lives of individuals that make use of medications in Wyoming while emulating a society that doesn’t constantly rely on the worth of those initiatives.
It stands for simply one gear of a bigger statewide system functioning to decrease medication overdoses and also opioid effects — various other entities consist of Wyoming Division of Wellness, police and also nonprofits like Recover Wyoming. Nevertheless, state regulations, gaps of government gives, location and also preconception obstruct execution of a few of the devices dependency specialists state are most efficient — from syringe-exchange programs to methadone centers.
The problem is made a lot more complex by the increase of fentanyl, which is assisting drive a rise in overdose fatalities in Wyoming and also throughout the country.
“The numbers are boosting, and also it’s really worrying,” claimed Casey Patterson, a Wyoming-based medication knowledge policeman collaborating with the federal government to check opioids throughout the Rocky Hill area. Together with surveillance, Patterson collaborates with a public wellness expert to analyze patterns, track overdose fatality spikes and also eventually bring prices down. He likewise takes part in numerous job teams like one concentrating on naloxone circulation behind bars.
“I can inform you meth is still possibly among the greatest hazards, otherwise the greatest risk currently, yet fentanyl is shutting that void in Wyoming,” he claimed.
Lethal fentanyl and also ‘dark-age’ stuff regulations
“The opioid overdose fatalities are actually being driven by fentanyl,” claimed Rodney Wambeam, Wyoming Study & Evaluation Facility elderly research study researcher and also co-author of the “Informing the Tale of Opioid Usage in Wyoming” record.
In 2019 there were 11 reported overdose fatalities from fentanyl amongst Wyoming locals. In 2021 that number leapt greater than 300% to 45, and also 7 fatalities have actually been tape-recorded in the very first couple of months of 2022, per information asked for from the Wyoming Division of Health And Wellness. WDH has actually enhanced its capacity to define root causes of overdose fatalities for many years, an adjustment that might be partly in charge of the rise in tape-recorded fentanyl-related fatalities.
In general, Wyoming overdose fatalities experienced an uptick from 2020-2021, from 90 to 95.
Wyoming regulations just obstruct initiatives to decrease drug-use effects, lots of state, and also are dated contrasted to reforms come on various other Hill West states.
“We’re simply at night ages in Wyoming,” kept in mind Sessums with the Damage Decrease Collective.
Wyoming is just one of simply 3 states without a Do-gooder Regulation supplying some resistance for those that call 911 throughout an overdose. “Individuals are passing away due to the fact that individuals hesitate to call 911,” Patterson claimed. He wishes to accumulate much better information on simply the amount of individuals in Wyoming are influenced by the plan.
The state’s regulations likewise disallow distribution or property of medication stuff, making syringe exchange programs efficiently prohibited.
Idaho passed both Do-gooder and also needle exchange program regulations, Montana modified its medication stuff regulations to excluded syringe exchange programs (which Utah legislated in 2016) and also Colorado has 8 public wellness injury decrease regulations on guides.
“There are some avoidance points that actually you can’t perform in Wyoming,” Wambeam with WYSAC claimed.
The validity of fentanyl examination strips is an additional source of complication that some state more makes complex initiatives.
The strips can discover the existence of fentanyl in various other medications, such as powdered drug or tablets. Supporters indicate researches revealing the economical strips can alter the habits of customers, leading some to dispose of materials, make use of with a close friend or maintain naloxone available.
State law does not clearly disallow property of them. The examination strips, which set you back about a buck, can be bought with government funds from the Centers for Illness Control and also SAMHSA, yet they haven’t been extensively dispersed in Wyoming, and also do continue to be prohibited in lots of states.
In the meanwhile, police remains to confiscate immoral fentanyl. In 2019, Wyoming Freeway Patrol made the greatest medication breast in 20 years, that included a kg of artificial fentanyl.
The Naloxone trouble
Accessibility to the overdose-reversing medication naloxone is an additional difficulty lots of harm-reduction teams deal with.
In 2017 Wyoming passed Us senate Documents 42 – Opiate overdose first aid, enabling pharmacologists to suggest naloxone. With a government give targeted at opioid overdose fatality avoidance, WDH dispersed Narcan, a brand name of naloxone, mainly to police and also EMS-related companies. The division eventually distributed over 8,000 dosages, nevertheless, that give finished in August 2021.
Naloxone has actually come to be a crucial device for law enforcement agent throughout the state.
Teams like the Wyoming Damage Decrease Collective fundraise or utilize their very own cash to buy dosages of the life-saving drug — a solitary dosage of common naloxone prices around $20-$60, while brand-name Narcan sets you back approximately $140. The Rock Springs team lately lacked naloxone entirely and also is looking for methods to buy a lot more.
“Naloxone is incredibly difficult to obtain right here,” claimed Hailey Hayden, the task instance supervisor for LEAD — a diversion program lacked the Cheyenne Authorities Division targeted at linking people that devote low-level criminal activities with sources. Hayden carried out a program enabling LEAD individuals to visit a neighborhood drug store and also get 2 dosages free of charge, yet the give sustaining that program likewise finished.
“I was simply sort of drawing my hair out attempting to think about innovative methods [to get naloxone],” claimed Patterson, that functioned as a Cheyenne Authorities Division investigative prior to retiring in June. “If I might buy a truckload of this things, a minimum of we would certainly have it someplace. I wasn’t able to determine a means to obtain it.”
Recuperate Wyoming’s Cheyenne head office maintains Narcan behind the counter, handing it bent on anybody in jeopardy or pertaining to a person in jeopardy of overdosing. The not-for-profit, which links individuals with sources and also peer-to-peer assistance, has a standing order with Cheyenne Regional Medical Facility.
“I saw on Facebook today, another person claimed that their friend simply passed away from a fentanyl overdose,” Recuperate Wyoming’s Exec Supervisor Lana Mahoney claimed. “It remains to be a trouble.”
WDH informed WyoFile it still obtains ask for Narcan and also recognized state locals require the drug. The division is presently looking for brand-new financing resources to sustain totally free statewide circulation.
The division likewise still offers financing to region avoidance experts with the Neighborhood Avoidance Give. These programs concentrate on a wide range of purposes from self-destruction avoidance to cigarette cessation, and also some recurring programs consist of medication take-back days and also understanding projects.
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Lawful avoidance approaches likewise restricted
Hayden’s job varies from assisting a person obtain a set of glasses to in-patient chemical abuse therapy facility positioning to obtaining emergency situation rental aid programs. Her cellular phone’s ringer is shown up simply audible to capture the 24/7 messages and also call.
Positioning customers in Wyoming’s in-patient therapy facilities is just one of one of the most challenging components of her work as the LEAD instance task supervisor, she claimed.
When LEAD’s initiatives aren’t sufficient, the repercussions can be ruining.
After handling to remain tidy for a month on his very own, one customer quit and also began utilizing once again, she claimed. That exact same day he’d made the top of a waiting list for a center in Sheridan, yet transformed his mind regarding going.
“That is the most awful component of my work,” Hayden claimed.
Various other facets, like protecting areas for out-patient therapy or accessing specialists or drug without medical insurance, can likewise hurt. “I place myself in their footwear and also I directly would not intend to wait 3 months simply to obtain drug,” she claimed.
The state funds 9 facilities in Wyoming with the government Opioid Feedback give to give buprenorphine and also naltrexone, 2 medication-assisted therapies for opioid usage conditions. Nevertheless, there isn’t a solitary methadone facility, suggesting those that require that type of therapy should take a trip out of state.
“In Wyoming, there’s not a lots of recuperation assistance solutions throughout the state. Some neighborhoods have greater than others,” claimed Mahoney of Recover Wyoming. The Legislature in 2021 reduced the allocate area university hospital supplying chemical abuse therapy by $7.5 million.
Searching for domestic therapy for females includes an additional degree of problem, Mahoney claimed. Just a handful of facilities throughout the state approve children, compeling moms to choose in between therapy or maintaining their kids resolved in their area and also college.
Recuperate Wyoming introduced a statewide telephone recuperation assistance solution moneyed by government opioid action funds channelled with the state a year earlier. The line offers totally free peer-to-peer assistance for the lately jailed, released in-patient customers and also those much from in-person solutions.
About 30 individuals are making use of the solution presently, according to Recuperate Wyoming, yet moneying go out in September.
Preconception and also criminalization include even more obstacles to obtaining assistance. Mahoney has actually battled with alcohol and also energizers, and also was addicted to meth, a medication that originally assisted her pull all evening research sessions. While alcoholic abuse is rather stabilized, meth dependency is not. “A great deal of individuals hesitate to obtain assistance,” she claimed. “They don’t intend to shed their tasks, or have their children eliminated.”
Opioid negotiation funds to find
The OneWyo Opioid Negotiation, the state’s share of a nationwide arrangement with opioid suppliers, is being settled — all the needed neighborhoods, cities, communities and also areas have actually joined to the arrangement opening the complete negotiation quantity, according to Wyoming replacement attorney general of the United States Misha Westby. Countless bucks get on the line, with 35% mosting likely to the state.
Exactly how those funds will certainly be released stays an inquiry.
“Details choices and also strategies have actually not yet been made,” WDH representative Kim Deti created in an e-mail. “We would certainly anticipate negotiation financing obtained to most likely be made use of to sustain existing programs for chemical abuse therapy and also avoidance.”
Professionals advise utilizing negotiation funds to bulk-purchase naloxone, concentrate on community-based circulation and also broaden medication-assisted therapy choices, according to a record from Harvard’s Wellness and also Civil rights Facility.
Reviewing the government give made use of to buy and also disperse 8,000 dosages of Narcan in Wyoming, WDH area avoidance device supervisor Rachel Nuss created in an e-mail, “Although a great deal of development was made, as a result of reduced, extensively distributed populace, framework and also ability continue to be an obstacle.”
Information collection and also framework made use of to recognize locations extremely influenced by medication overdoses require added renovation also, Nuss created, and also are a leading concern for the state’s overdose action technique.
“It takes a whole lot to construct ability in a frontier country state,” Wambeam of WYSAC claimed.
An expanding grass-roots activity
Last September, Tanagra Melgarejo of the National Damage Decrease Union assisted arrange the state’s very first Damage Decrease Top, which about 80 individuals throughout Wyoming went to. Sessums and also Montoya of Rock Springs were amongst those existing.
Driven by the alienation and also isolation substance abuse stimulates, they both recognize just how tiny acts of treatment can accumulate, they claimed. These acts should be enough to fill up voids as statewide avoidance initiatives materialize.
In Rock Springs, Montoya and also Sanders authorize off from the Wyoming Damage Decrease Collective’s bi-weekly Zoom conference and also begin to construct packages with masks, prophylactics and also handouts consisting of secure shot info. They consist of hand-written notes of motivation.
Gesturing towards a stick of chapstick predestined for the bags they’re setting up, Montoya claimed, “When I was running the roads, something similar to this would certainly have indicated a whole lot to me. Simply also the damn chapstick.”
This write-up was initially released by WyoFile and also is republished right here with authorization. WyoFile is an independent not-for-profit wire service concentrated on Wyoming individuals, areas and also plan.
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Practice what you preach: ASU generates three turnovers against Wyoming
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Arizona State forces 3 turnovers in win over Wyoming to start 2024
All offseason, coach Kenny Dillingham preached getting turnovers. Forty seconds into the season’s first game, the defense produced its first one.
Four games. That’s how long it took for the Arizona State defense to generate its first turnover in 2023.
Forty seconds. That’s how it long it took for ASU to get its first turnover for this 2024 season.
Redshirt junior linebacker Zyrus Fiaseu read Wyoming junior quarterback Evan Svoboda perfectly and intercepted the Mesa Red Mountain alum on the second play of the game, returning it for a touchdown to start the year in near-perfect fashion for the Sun Devils to establish an early 7-0 lead.
They didn’t stop there either.
On the very next offensive drive for the Cowboys, facing a long third-and-23, the ASU defense again capitalized on a mistake from Svoboda, this time as another linebacker – junior Keyshaun Elliott – intercepted Svoboda on an overthrown pass. Seven plays later, redshirt sophomore Ian Hershey booted a 29-yard field goal to make it 10-0 at the 6:19 mark in the first quarter.
Coach Kenny Dillingham called the linebacker room the “most improved” during the preseason. And less than 10 minutes into the first game, the group proved him right. It’s also a testament to ASU’s ability in the transfer portal as both Fiaseu and Elliott are transfers. The Sun Devils picked up 30 transfers this past offseason, with the class ranking No. 30 in the nation and fourth in the Big 12, according to 247Sports.
ASU added its third turnover of the game in the third quarter when Svoboda attempted to hit wide receiver Tyler King on a swing pass to the left, but threw the ball behind his intended target. ASU redshirt senior Justin Wodtly scooped it up and ran 6 yards for the touchdown to make it 41-0 with 6:07 to go in the third quarter.
It was all part of a superb evening from the ASU defense, which held Wyoming to just 53 yards of total offense in the first half. Wyoming didn’t score its first points until 2 seconds remained in the game.
One of the themes of spring and fall camp for ASU was emphasizing the need for turnovers.
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“I expect us to run to the football, and I expect us to get takeaways this year,” ASU head coach Kenny Dillingham said ahead of the season.
ASU didn’t get its first takeaway until the first quarter of the fourth game of last season against USC when linebacker Tate Romney recovered a fumble. The Sun Devils were the last team among FBS schools to force their first turnover last season.
ASU was a dismal 127th — out of 130 schools — last year in turnover margin. Rice, Nebraska, and Temple were the only schools to finish below ASU in 2023.
That trend is now shifting in favor of the Sun Devils. The message is starting to get through.
“It’s incredible,” Dillingham said in his postgame news conference. “Every single day — guys are probably bored of it — we start our team meeting and the only two things I show are: effort plays and takeaways. That’s it. Bad ball security, takeaways, effort. That’s it. I don’t show anything else. It’s those two things, over and over. It’s just to get in their mind that if you play really hard and you win the turnover battle, all these schemes that you’re about to go do are awesome, but they’re obsolete. And we have to be able to do those two things, and then go play smart football. That was game-changing when you turn the ball over at that rate. It was as close to a shutout as you can possibly get. So in my mind, it’s a shutout and it’s two defensive touchdowns. Awesome job by our defense tonight. They deserve it because they’ve been working hard.”
ASU also executed on running the ball as senior running back Cam Skattebo (11 carries, 49 yards, one touchdown) and redshirt senior running back DeCarlos Brooks (six carries, 47 yards, one touchdown) led a potent, multipronged ground attack.
Even redshirt sophomore quarterback Sam Leavitt got in on the action, showcasing his scrambling ability to the tune of 47 yards on eight carries.
In all, the Sun Devils rushed for 241 yards on 49 carries as a team. ASU had 499 yards of total offense on the night in a commanding 48-7 victory.
Logan Stanley is a sports reporter with The Arizona Republic who primarily focuses on high school, ASU and Olympic sports. To suggest ideas for human-interest stories and other news, reach out to Stanley at logan.stanley@gannett.com or 707-293-7650. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter: @LSscribe.
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Arizona State vs Wyoming live score updates, analysis for Week 1 college football game
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The Arizona State football team opened its 2024 schedule with a game against the Wyoming Cowboys on Saturday, Aug. 31.
And it opened it with a bang in the first half.
ASU football intercepted the first pass of the game and returned it for a touchdown and never looked back in the first two quarters, building a 27-0 halftime lead on Wyoming.
Follow our live updates of the game, which is being played at Mountain America Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, for the latest score, news, notes and analysis of the college football Week 1 non-conference game between the Sun Devils of the Big 12 and the Cowboys of the Mountain West.
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The Sun Devils now have two defensive scores in this game.
Wyoming’s Evan Svoboda’s pass was thrown behind his receiver and ASU’s Justin Wodtly recovered it and ran 23 yards for the score, giving ASU a 41-0 lead on Wyoming.
FOX Sports rules analyst Dean Blandino, on the FS1 broadcast, said that it looked like the pass was a forward pass, but the officials did not agree, upholding the backward pass ruling and the touchdown for the Sun Devils.
ASU now has three takeaways in this game. The Sun Devils were -11 in takeaways last season.
Score: ASU football 41, Wyoming 0 (6:07 left in third quarter)
The Sun Devils just punted for the first time in this game, with 6:45 left in the third quarter.
ASU’s latest drive went for 37 yards over six plays. It is just the second time it hasn’t scored on offense, the first coming late in the first half when it missed a field goal attempt.
Arizona State has a 24:14 to 14:01 advantage in time of possession in this game.
The Sun Devils just forced Wyoming to punt, although the Cowboys didn’t really help matters, gaining just six yards on three running plays on the drive.
This game is already ugly, with ASU up 34-0, but it has the potentially to get really ugly, at least for the Cowboys.
ASU fans aren’t complaining.
Sam Leavitt has his first touchdown pass as an Arizona State Sun Devil.
The QB just engineered a 9-play, 75-yard touchdown drive for ASU football to start the second half against Wyoming, throwing a 25-yard touchdown pass to Chamon Metayer for the score.
Leavitt also had a 6-yard run and a 15-yard run on the drive.
He’s now 12-for-18 in the game for 179 yards, with the touchdown.
He has 26 yards rushing.
Score: ASU football 34, Wyoming 0 (11:03 left in third quarter)
The first half is in the books at Mountain America Stadium in Tempe and it was a good one for the Sun Devils, who have a 27-0 lead on the Cowboys.
ASU has 241 yards of total offense, while Wyoming only has 53. ASU is 3-for-7 on third downs, Wyoming is 1-for-6.
Wyoming has thrown two interceptions. ASU didn’t have any turnovers in the first half.
Penalties have been a big factor in the first half, with Wyoming penalized seven times for 65 yards. ASU has one 5-yard penalty in the game.
Some key performers for ASU in the first half were QB Sam Leavitt, who is 0-for-14 for 134 yards, running back Cam Skattebo, who has 41 yards and a touchdown on nine carries and wide receiver Jake Smith, who has three catches for 47 yards in his debut for the Sun Devils after being injured last season.
Evan Svoboda, a Mesa Red Mountain High graduate, is just 4-for-10 for 32 yards, with two interceptions for Wyoming.
The Sun Devils had to settle for some field goals when they would have rather had touchdowns, and they missed a field goal late in the first half, but you really can’t complain about their first half of football this season.
It has only been two quarters, but it was a good two quarters for Kenny Dillingham’s team in its quest for a much-improved season after going 3-9 last year.
Halftime score: ASU football 27, Wyoming 0
The Sun Devils came up empty on offense for the first time in the first half Saturday when Ian Hershey missed a 38-yard field goal late in the second quarter after ASU’s drive stalled against the Cowboys.
Wyoming kneeled the ball for one play to end the half with ASU leading 27-0.
ASU just extended its lead to 27-0 with a 24-yard field goal from Ian Hershey after ASU’s drive stalled deep in Wyoming territory.
Still, the Sun Devils are up 27-0.
Who saw that coming? ASU was just a 6.5-point favorite in odds for this game.
Sam Leavitt has been efficient in his first start for the Sun Devils and is currently 8-for-11 for 95 yards, with no touchdown passes and more importantly, no interceptions or fumbles.
Score: Arizona State football 27, Wyoming 0 (4:28 left in second quarter)
Wyoming quarterback Evan Svoboda, a Mesa Red Mountain High product, is having a rough homecoming so far as the Cowboys’ starting QB.
Svoboda is 3-for-9 in the game, having only thrown for 22 yards. He has had two passes intercepted.
It’s been rough going, as the Cowboys only have 52 total yards.
It’s probably not the homecoming Svoboda envisioned.
The Sun Devils are rolling early in this game against the Cowboys.
Cam Skattebo just ran it in from 2-yards out on a 4th & 2 for Arizona State, extending ASU’s lead to 24-0 with 9:47 left in the second quarter.
Skattebo lined up at quarterback for ASU on the play, and took the direct snap from the center, with DeCarlos Brooks helping lead the way to him making it into the end zone.
Skattebo is up to 41 yards on nine carries in the game.
Score: ASU football 24, Wyoming 0 (9:47 left in second quarter)
Wyoming’s fourth drive of the game went for six plays and just 13 yards, ending with the Sun Devils again forcing the Cowboys to punt, their second of the game.
Evan Svoboda is struggling for Wyoming. He’s just 3-for-9 in the game for 22 yards, with two interceptions.
Wyoming isn’t faring much better on the ground. It has nine carries for 33 yards rushing.
ASU just went on a 10-play, 72-yard drive that took five minutes off the clock and ended with a 2-yard touchdown run by DeCarlos Brooks to give the Sun Devils a 17-0 lead as the first quarter clock ended.
ASU has 51 yards rushing in the game, 30 from Cam Skattebo.
Sam Leavitt is 4-for-5 for 36 yards in his first game as ASU’s quarterback.
ASU’s defense was the star of the first quarter, however, for the Sun Devils, after getting two interceptions and allowing just 37 yards of total offense for the Cowboys.
Score: ASU football 17, Wyoming 0 (end of first quarter)
Let’s give ASU’s defense some credit.
The Sun Devils just forced Wyoming to punt, making three straight drives that they have stopped the Cowboys.
That’ll do, especially after ASU’s woes on the defensive side of the football last season.
Wyoming has 37 total yards in this game and two first downs. It is 0-for-2 on third down.
The Arizona State Sun Devils have a 10-0 lead on Wyoming in the first quarter at Mountain America Stadium, the latest score coming on a 29-yard field goal by Ian Hershey after ASU’s defense got its second interception of the game.
ASU wasn’t able to punch it into the end zone, but it did get its first points on offense of the season with the field goal.
Arizona State’s first touchdown of the season came on a pick-six.
Score: Arizona State 10, Wyoming 0 (6:19 left in first quarter)
Last year, it took the ASU football defense four games to get a takeaway.
This is not last year.
ASU football’s defense has two takeaways in the first quarter against Wyoming, both interceptions, that have come on the Cowboys’ first two possessions.
Keyshaun Elliott intercepted Wyoming’s Evan Svoboda for the second takeway.
Svoboda is now 2-for-4 for 16 yards with the two interceptions.
ASU will take it.
Well, ASU football couldn’t have asked for a better start against Wyoming.
Zyrus Fiaseu intercepted an Evan Svoboda pass on Wyoming’s second play of the game, and Svoboda’s first pass attempt, and ran it back 26 yards for a touchdown for the Sun Devils, giving ASU a 7-0 lead less than one minute into the game.
Score: Arizona State 7, Wyoming 0 (14:19 left in first quarter)
Arizona State will be without RB Raleek Brown (hamstring), OL Sean Na’a, OL Jalen Klemm, DL Prince Dorbah (knee), DL Anthonie Cooper (knee) and LB Tate Romney (broken arm) in the game against Wyoming.
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The game can be seen at 7:30 p.m. MST on FS1 (stream with this free trial from FUBO).
Chris Myers will have the play-by-play call, with Petros Papadakis as the analyst.
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ASU football is a 6.5-point favorite over Wyoming in the game, according to BetMGM Sportsbook.
The Sun Devils are -250 on the moneyline. The Cowboys are +200.
The over/under for the game is set at 47.5 points.
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College football week 1 picks: Wyoming vs. Arizona State prediction
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