Things are getting interesting for the UW. They have 3 games left and must win 2 to go bowling.
They have @ASU - who also needs to win 2 of 3 to go bowling, so that should be a dogfight which I see ASU winning due to UW's terrible passing offense - and then @OSU which they should win going away, and finally they get us at home.
I think it's likely that UW's bowl hopes come down to winning the Apple Cup. They will already be playing for pride, for the rivalry, and to defend home field... I expect having a bowl game as the carrot dangling in front of them will make them play their best game of the year by far. Though they might only be 5-6 at that point, I expect us to have to bring a Stanford-type effort to win, given all those other factors. Look for them to lean heavily on the run - including QB - and focus on jamming our receivers and limiting YAC. I expect them to be so desperate here they will test the refs early to see how they're going to call holding and DPI. God help us if they're calling it lax, because they will hack us all day long. We will have to have fewer than 2-3 drops to win IMO, and must make them earn rushing yards like never before.
Or we could just blow them out, but I'm not expecting that.
P.S. Yeah we won bowl eligibility less than 24 hours ago and there are now 2 threads about the UW. But c'mon, how can you not lick your chops at the prospect of being THE team to shut UW out of bowl season? And I'm confident we will focus less on what our rivals are doing when we start rattling off 9- and 10-win seasons...
They have @ASU - who also needs to win 2 of 3 to go bowling, so that should be a dogfight which I see ASU winning due to UW's terrible passing offense - and then @OSU which they should win going away, and finally they get us at home.
I think it's likely that UW's bowl hopes come down to winning the Apple Cup. They will already be playing for pride, for the rivalry, and to defend home field... I expect having a bowl game as the carrot dangling in front of them will make them play their best game of the year by far. Though they might only be 5-6 at that point, I expect us to have to bring a Stanford-type effort to win, given all those other factors. Look for them to lean heavily on the run - including QB - and focus on jamming our receivers and limiting YAC. I expect them to be so desperate here they will test the refs early to see how they're going to call holding and DPI. God help us if they're calling it lax, because they will hack us all day long. We will have to have fewer than 2-3 drops to win IMO, and must make them earn rushing yards like never before.
Or we could just blow them out, but I'm not expecting that.
P.S. Yeah we won bowl eligibility less than 24 hours ago and there are now 2 threads about the UW. But c'mon, how can you not lick your chops at the prospect of being THE team to shut UW out of bowl season? And I'm confident we will focus less on what our rivals are doing when we start rattling off 9- and 10-win seasons...