Make that being interviewed by dad, Phoenix sportscaster Bruce Cooper, who felt uneasy asking his son about his game-winning blocked punt in the 11th-ranked Huskies' 21-15 victory over Arizona State Saturday night at Sun Devil Stadium.

"This is weird," said Cooper's dad, who works for KPNX TV in Phoenix. "I've never interviewed him before."

Now Cooper's dad knows how Bob Greise felt when he had to interview son, Brian, then a Michigan quarterback, three years ago.

"How did it feel to make a big play in front of the whole family?" Cooper's dad asked his son.

Arizona State's Alfred Williams sacks Washington's Marques Tuiasosopo during the first quarter.(AP)

The freshman linebacker from the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert didn't hear him. He was being drowned out by the 50 family members and friends who kept chanting, "Coop, Coop, Coop."

Meanwhile, across the field, Washington assistant Steve Axman, who recruited Cooper, was trying to get him to leave the field. But he wasn't going to tell Cooper to be rude to his dad.

It was a bizarre way to end a bizarre game, one in which there were 12 turnovers -- six by each team.

There also was a blocked field goal, a safety in which Washington was called for holding in the end zone, a running into the kicker penalty and 12 consecutive incompletions by Arizona State quarterbacks, who at one time missed on 17 of 18 passes.

Yet, until early in the fourth quarter, the only touchdown either team could muster came after Cooper blocked Nick Murphy's punt and recovered it on Arizona State's 5-yard line.

"He's never blocked a punt before, at any level," Cooper's dad said. "He's never blocked a punt before because he never was used there before. He also never had played linebacker before this year and never been used as a rush lineman before. He was a defensive back and wide receiver in high school and the fact he has made the adjustment to this level this quickly is extremely impressive because I thought they would redshirt him this year."

Cooper, 6-foot-4, 215 pounds, said he always grew up planning to play for ASU, but coach Bruce Snyder didn't offer him a scholarship.

"What Bruce Snyder told me was he wasn't sure which position was the right one for him," Cooper's dad said. "Some thought he would be a defensive lineman. Others thought he would be a linebacker. Some even thought he would be a wide receiver. Washington and Wisconsin recruited him as a linebacker, and we have no regrets."

The Sun Devils were leading 6-0 when Cooper blocked the punt with 5:57 left in the first quarter. One play later, quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo found split end Wondame Davis wide open in the end zone for a 5-yard score.

"Everything just opened up for me and it was wide open (to the punter)," Cooper said.

Neither team scored again until early in the fourth quarter when the Huskies, 2-1 in the Pac-10 and 5-1 overall, were handed another gift touchdown.

Arizona State's Justin Taplin fumbled a punt, Washington's Tyler Kambrink recovered at the ASU 14. Four plays later, freshman Rich Alexis scored on a 1-yard run to extend the lead to 14-6.

The next time the Huskies got the ball, Alexis, who played only one year of high school football, went 86 yards to put the game out of reach.

He wasn't thinking of scoring when he got the ball. He had seen the two teams make so many mistakes, he just didn't want to add to the list.

"I was just thinking about holding onto the ball," said Alexis, who gained 132 yards on 16 carries one week after he had 107 against Oregon State said. "I didn't want to drop it. I didn't want to fumble it. I just wanted to hold it real tight and run real hard for the team."

At least the Huskies could run the ball. The Sun Devils, 1-2 in the Pac-10 and 4-2 overall, couldn't run or pass.

Their leading rusher, freshman running back Michael Williams, gained only 50 yards.

Quarterbacks Griffin Goodman and Jeff Krohn combined to hit only 15 of 46 passes and were intercepted twice. In the first half, they completed only 5 of 21 for 57 yards.

"I think we're still trying to find an identity at quarterback," Snyder said. "We still haven't found one yet."

The Huskies, meanwhile, found something special in Cooper, who ended the interview with his dad by explaining where he got his athletic talent.

"It all came from Mom," he said.