The Washington Huskies and the UCLA Bruins will face off in the rare Friday night game this week—a game that will be nationally televised on ESPN 2. The Huskies are 6-3, and they’re coming off of two straight wins following three straight losses.
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.
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.
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.
The Washington Huskies are full of potential, but they can’t quite get over the hump. Steve Sarkisian and his squad have gone 7-6 the last three years, and while they’ll look to improve upon that mark, they’ll also have to prove people wrong who believe they’ve hit their ceiling.
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 2011 Washington Huskies are probably best remembered for losing 67-56 in last year’s Alamo Bowl. Steve Sarkisian is an offensive wizard, but it has become completely clear that this team must find a way to play a little more defense if they are going to contend with the best teams in the PAC 12 on a weekly basis.
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.
Washington may not be the top team in the expanded PAC-12 this season, but it will be more than capable of beating anyone on a given night.
Two of the PAC 12’s most high powered offenses go head to head on Saturday when the #8 Stanford Cardinal (6-0, 4-0) take on the #25 Washington Huskies (5-1, 3-0) in Palo Alto.
The Washington Huskies (4-1, 2-0) have a chance to knock off their second PAC 12 newbie in a row when they face the Colorado Buffaloes (1-4, -02) at Husky Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
The Huskies will travel to Utah on Saturday to play the first Pac-12 game inside Rice-Eccles Stadium, and Utah will be looking to show the PAC 12 that they have arrived with a big win over Washington.
Despite a spectacular year from quarterback Jake Locker, the Washington Huskies managed to barely finish the 2010 season with a better than .500 after a 19-7 win over the Nebraska Cornhuskers in last year’s version of the Holiday Bowl.
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