Looking ahead at the season I feel that game 2 is the key to TU getting to 6 wins and a bowl game. The difficulty of winning in Jonesboro is that ASU also needs this game badly to avoid a 1-3 start. Their next 2 games are at Michigan and Iowa State. Hard to see ASU won't be major underdogs. They are banking on a win versus TU and have made this game a red out and have invited 500 high school band members to perform en masse at this game. This will probably be ASU's largest home crowd, and a win against TU makes them 2-2. I forgot to mention that ASU players dot the preseason all Sunbelt first and second teams including the second team QB. This is a game both teams need to reach 6, and I predict a major dogfight.
In TU's case a 2-2 start means TU must win 4 league games. In looking at the schedule there are perhaps just 2 that TU will or might be favored @Temple and home against FAU. Beating ASU gives TU a 3-1 start and getting to 6 would be much more doable.
