Pac-10 Week 3 Notes and Observations: Washington Huskies
Washington Huskies 2-1 Overall (1-0 Conference)
This Week’s Score: Washington 16 – USC 13
Next Week’s Opponent: @Stanford
Wow!
I mean really, isn’t that all that needs to be said? A nice tidy one-word notes piece?
Last year, when Oregon State upset USC, it played out like these types of upsets often do; take a substantial lead and hang on.
But not this one. For four quarters, the Washington Huskies played smash-mouth head to head football with the USC Trojans. They never looked overwhelmed and they never looked outmatched.
You can argue all you want that USC beat themselves; Aaron Corp’s play was atrocious, as were the fumbles. You can talk all you want about USC’s injuries. But none of it matters; it may have taken an unlikely series of events to put the ball in Jake Locker’s hands in a 13-13 tie with time winding down, but he methodically marched his team down the field into field goal range, and the rest is history.
You can’t say enough about the preparation that went into this game by Steve Sarkisian and Nick Holt. They had an excellent game plan in place, and their players went out and executed it. What better way to end the nation’s longest losing streak than with a winning streak?
The effort earned the Huskies the 24th spot in the AP Top 25 Poll, their first time being ranked since 2003. But the win hasn’t made believers out of everyone; in their first road game of the season against Stanford next week, the Huskies find themselves a 7 point underdog.
From the way this team has come together and played against teams like LSU and USC when the whole country was counting them out, something tells me they don’t mind going out there and proving people wrong.
For more on Locker’s drive and the Husky upset: Jake Locker leads Washington Huskies to stunning upset over USC Trojans
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