- Chris Petersen is a really good coach. He has shown that he can surprise upper P5 teams with MWC talent, and he can surprise championship teams with upper P5 talent. He will be a scary opponent from now on.
- To that end, on the point of Leach vs. Petersen, everyone understands P12 Petersen would smash MWC Petersen right? He's a great coach but talent is making a HUGE difference that scheme (i.e., Air Raid) can only do so much against.
- UW's roster is top 2-3 in the conference and still upper tier in all of college football. They will again have many draft picks. Our consolation prize once again will be pointing to superior talent to explain losses - which, for them, are wins which happily require no such explanation.
- Petersen has coached his guys to push for YAC like ISIS fighters on speed. For the life of me I CANNOT understand why this would be a surprise to CU with a year of UW on tape in the P12CG. Coleman, Pettis, Gaskin and Ross were frequently turning 3 yard losses into 8 yard gains, or churning and falling forward to make no-gainers 5-yarders. Watching college football players assume everyone is going down at first contact - and being surprised when opponents give NFL effort - can be very frustrating.
- I'm reminding myself: I don't hate UW. I just hate their fans. Chris Petersen could not be more decent and we have every reason to believe most of the players are decent. It's just the insufferable twats we all know on the westside that make an otherwise likable team seem positively Hitlerian.
- People saying "you can disrupt Browning by getting in his face with pressure" are clueless. That doesn't make him different from any other QB, and getting that kind of pressure consistently is not something most teams can rely on.
- The game was over when Liufau was injured. Unfortunately for CU, this was on about their 3rd offensive play from scrimmage?
- God bless 'em, but I hate the running college QB. The rubbish passing QB with wheels always works so well and then faceplants at the NFL level. It just seems cheap watching a QB unable to go through his progressions and still taking off for the first time after time. I'm looking at you, Liufau.
- CU's defense is really good. But Washington's is also really good. I give CU the coaching/experience edge but UW has better - if raw - athletes. The difference is, one team has a [healthy] offense.
- I think UW could make a run at Alabama in the CFP. People don't realize that, while Bama probably has the nation's best defense, the offense is dreck. If Hurts get hurt like Liufau, that's ballgame. Guy can only run, not pass. UW has a worse defense, but is still very good on both sides of the ball which Alabama is not. I could see a tOSU-type situation from a couple years back. That said, God help us all if those horrendous boobs' season extends into the national title game. I might move to Montana and go off the grid like Wahlberg in Shooter; I don't think I could handle the reaction from the scumbags in Montlake.