Arizona State’s final home date of the season now has a kickoff time, and the Sun Devils will welcome Oklahoma State to Tempe on Nov. 21 for a matchup that doubles as the next chapter in a tightly split series.
The two programs have met six times and each side has three wins, setting up what is effectively the “Game 7” of the all-time series. Oklahoma State won the first meeting in 1984, Arizona State answered with two victories in the 1990s, and then the schools went nearly 30 years before facing off again in a PAC-12/Big 12 non-conference home-and-home series.
Now the rivalry has taken on a different shape. The teams are conference foes, and Nov. 21 will be the fourth meeting in the last five seasons.
The most recent matchup belonged to Cam Skattebo. Two seasons ago in Stillwater, the now-NFL running back carried Arizona State through a 2-hour and 38-minute weather delay caused by lightning and finished with three touchdowns in a 42-21 win. That victory helped fuel a strong November run that eventually sent the Sun Devils to a conference title trip.
At the time, Dillingham said, "This is a team that has won seven games for, I think, 20 years in a row. And it's their homecoming.
We're going to get their very, very best. Coach Gundy has been doing this for a long time at one of the highest levels amongst anybody in college football. ...
It's the second away week in a row where it's a team's homecoming, which means we're going to get the best crowd that they have all year and the most motivated those players are going to be."
A lot has changed since then. Gundy is no longer in that long-time role, and Oklahoma State now has first-year head coach Eric Morris leading the way. The Cowboys enter Nov. 9 at 6-3 overall and 4-2 in Big 12 play.
Dillingham’s record against first-year head coaches and coaches at new schools stands at 2-2. He beat Arizona’s Brent Brennan and Mississippi State’s Jeff Lebby in 2024, and lost to Colorado’s Deion Sanders in 2023 and Duke’s Manny Diaz in 2025 at the Sun Bowl.
This time, the homecoming label belongs to Arizona State. Dillingham has not lost a homecoming game since taking over the program in 2023, and the Nov. 21 meeting gives the ASU alum a chance to move to 4-0 in those games.
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