The Washington Huskies may have temporarily lost their mojo with three straight losses to the Stanford Cardinal, Oregon Ducks and Arizona State Sun Devils, but a blowout win over the California Golden Bears on Oct. 26 helped restore order in Seattle.
Quarterback Jordan Lynch threw his hat back into the ring alongside the other Heisman Trophy candidates with an outstanding individual performance last weekend, and now looks to continue his stellar play when the 18th-ranked Northern Illinois Huskies host the Eastern Michigan Eagles.
The Washington Huskies may have started the season 4-0, but they’ve since dropped three straight and have fallen out of the national rankings as a result. The California Golden Bears, on the other hand, have struggled all season, and they offer UW a legitimate chance to get back on track in Week 9.
Coming off a loss against Oregon in the weekend’s marquee matchup, the 20th-ranked Washington Huskies will get thrown right back into the fire when they hit the road to face off with the Arizona State Sun Devils on Sunday.
The Northern Illinois Huskies just continue to keep winning. They are perfect on the season and heading into what should be a relatively easy game at Central Michigan, the program that used to lead the MAC before their current run of dominance.
Remember when Akron almost took down Michigan a couple of weeks back? Well they didn’t win that one and haven’t won any of the three after that either so how good are they. I think the answer is not very which would explain their 1-5 record.
For the first time in school history, the University of Washington will be the site of ESPN’s College Gameday, and for good reason. The No. 16 Washington Huskies are slated to host the No. 2 Oregon Ducks in a matchup of bitter Pac-12 rivals.
Well, the Cardinal are a ranked team, but they have big shoes to fill since Andrew Luck and TE Coby Fleener are gone. Josh Nunes won the QB battle, but he has not thrown a pass for Stanford since the 2010 season.
The Washington Huskies will make their second trip of the year to the Big Apple on Tuesday, where they will hope to have better results when they take on the No. 6 seeded Minnesota Golden Gophers for a chance to play either Stanford or UMass in Thursday’s NIT championship game.
The Syracuse Orange are looking primed for a #1 seed in the tournament. They still have just the one loss at Notre Dame which is looking better and better everyday as the Irish climb the rankings.
When Big East play began it looked as if defending champion UCONN (16-10) was a shoe in to play in the Big Dance, but since winning their first 2 conference games they are only 4-8 since.
Is it possible a team ranked in the top 5 preseason might not even make the tournament?
The Cincinnati Bearcats will look to gain ground on Big East leaders Syracuse with a rare win at No. 11 Connecticut on Wednesday night.
The No. 9 Connecticut Huskies will look to push their current win streak to eight when they tip off against a Pirates team that will be looking to improve 2-1 in Big East play after a big win over West Virginia the last time out.
The Washington Huskies will look to rebound off a difficult loss to No. 5 Duke when the host the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos who received a confidence boost with a close win over the San Diego Toreros, earlier in the week.
After dropping their worst non-conference defeat in 16 years, a 85-63 loss at No. 2 Ohio State last week, the No. 7 Duke Blue Devils rebounded with a win and will now face a Washington Huskies team that has won just one out if its last four contests.
