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It may only happen every four decades, but this season the Aggies look close to the level of their golden era teams of 1959-60. They dominated the Sun Devils 35-7 Saturday night, controlling both sides of the ball.

"I want to say right now my offensive line is one of the best in the nation," said K.C. Enzminger, who threw for a career-high 205 yards and two touchdowns.

"They blew the No. 22 team in the country off the ball all game."

The Aggies (3-0) ran for 363 yards, averaging 6.3 yards per carry against a defense that held Texas Tech's Ricky Williams to a career-low 33 yards just 11 days ago. Walter Taylor had 117 yards, Keeon Johnson 90 and Chris Barnes 88.

It was the first victory over a ranked team for New Mexico State in recent history.

The Aggies were 0-14 against ranked teams since 1979, and school records didn't reveal any games against ranked teams prior to then.

Enzminger also ran for 52 yards, nearly as many as Arizona State's J.R. Redmond, leading New Mexico State to its first 3-0 start in seven years and its first triumph over a Pac-10 team.

Chris Barnes scored for the Aggies on a 16-yard run, Walter Taylor had a 48-yard breakaway, sending the Aggies to a 28-0 lead with 2:09 left in the third quarter, and Keeon Johnson raced 32 yards for another TD.

Redmond, who had 62 yards on 24 carries, scored on a 1-yard run 2:43 into the fourth quarter. But that was all the Sun Devils (1-1) could muster.

Big defensive plays, including two interceptions by Corey Paul, carried the day for the Aggies.

Two of the biggest were an end-zone interception by Jascon Willis that killed Arizona State's first drive in the third quarter, when it trailed just 7-0, and the special-teams work of Mike Lueckeman and Mike Wakefield.

After Redmond scored and the Sun Devils forced New Mexico State to punt, Lueckeman stripped the ball from Redmond on the return, and Wakefield recovered at midfield.

Four plays later, Johnson broke loose up the middle to make it 35-7 with 8:18 remaining.

Barnes' score followed Willis' pickoff of a pass by Ryan Kealy, who started despite minor knee surgery 10 days ago.

On the first play of the 80-yard drive, Enzminger threw 57 yards over the middle to Dustin Guinn. Three plays later, Barnes broke an arm tackle at the 9 and scored the first of his team's three third-quarter TDs.

The Aggies set the tone by outgaining Arizona State 275 yards to 69 in the first half.

Enzminger was 0-for-4 in the first quarter, and coach Tony Samuel sent in freshman Damien Ocampo. But the freshman was injured on his third play, and Enzminger, a sophomore, returned to action.

He gained 18 yards on a keeper on the first play of a 65-yard drive. Then he scrambled for 6 yards, kept for another 6-yard gain, and three plays later got his first completion - a 30-yarder to Robert Garth.

But after the Aggies reached first-and-goal on the 7-yard line, the drive stalled. Nick Cecava, the most accurate kicker in his school's history, went in for a 19-yard field goal, but pushed it right 2:07 into the second quarter.

New Mexico State held the Sun Devils in check, however, with Waylon Waters and Oliver Soukup sacking Kealy twice in three plays midway through the quarter.

On Arizona State's third possession, Griffin Goodman went in.

He missed his first pass, and Corey Paul broke up the next one and intercepted the third at his 31.

Enzminger ran for 11 yards, passed to Garth for 14 and 12 yards, and capped the scoring drive with a throw to Shaw in the flat. Shaw spun back inside, faking Kenny Williams to his knees, and scored New Mexico State's first TD untouched with 22 seconds left before halftime.