TEMPE — Arizona State’s 1996 football team that went 11-1 and made the Rose Bowl reunited at its 30th anniversary and was recognized during Saturday’s game against Colorado.
ASU, ranked No. 2 in the nation at the time, came up just shy of beating No. 4 Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. Jake Plummer’s go-ahead touchdown in the last two minutes was outdone by one from Ohio State quarterback Joe Germaine in the last 20 seconds for a 20-17 final.
“We’ve got almost 40 to 50 members of this team back for a dinner that we’ll be a part of and then get a chance to recognize them at halftime,” ASU athletic director Graham Rossini told Arizona Sports’ Burns & Gambo Thursday. “It’s almost 30 years to the date of when they clinched that Rose Bowl berth and hard to believe that was 30 years ago…