Saturday, the University of Washington Huskies start their play for the 2024 season. They play Weber State (an FCS team out of Utah) first. The game will be Saturday at 8pm PDT on the Big10 Network. That's a very late game.
I have no idea how good my favorite team will be this season.
Last year we went 14-1, undefeated until losing the national championship game to the very good Michigan team. We even beat the hated Oregon twice.
But then our amazing coach left for Alabama. Jerk.
So the school hired Jedd Fisch out of the University of Arizona. He had turned that school around in three years.
The Huskies lost a lot of players and only two starters stayed. But a transfer quarterback, Will Rogers, stayed even after the old coach left.
I've only seen this iteration of the Huskies play in the spring game which was at the end of spring camp. They looked okay. So we'll have to see how they play against Weber State. I'm having flashbacks to the time we lost to Montana (an FCS team) under coach Jimmy Lake. He was fired before the end of the season.
Years ago, when the Huskies weren't very good, I came up with my criteria for a good season:
1) Win at least 8 games
2) Beat Oregon
3) Beat Washington State
4) Go to a good bowl game and win it.
The move to the Big10 has sort of messed up that Washington State game. Could be in the future we won't play WSU (we are this year). Also, they went from being a big fish in a medium-sized pond to being a medium-sized fish in a gargantuan pond. I think that's part of the reason our Weber State game is so late (11pm Eastern Time).
And they will have to travel more. Their first away game they play Rutgers... in New Jersey. Other far-away places they will play this year are Iowa City, Iowa, Bloomington, Indiana, and University Park, Pennsylvania. Those will make the trip to Eugene, Oregon to play the Ducks seem like a breeze.
Another thing I'm not happy about is that the Apple Cup game against Washington State (which is now a non-conference game) is going to be exclusively on Peacock. So I'm going to have to subscribe to that streaming service. At least for a month.
When the AP top 25 pre-season poll came out, the Huskies weren't even on it. Oregon was number three, though. It would be great if we could beat Oregon on the last regular season game. Ex-coach at Vanderbilt and Louisiana State, Gerry DiNardo, says the Huskies could go 5-0 to start their season. That might get us back in the AP top 25.
Are there any college football teams you're looking forward to watching this year. Let me know in the comments below.
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