Dawgs Host Cardinal To Open November Schedule

Saturday, November 3

Seattle, WA

6:00 PM

University of Washington

Stanford

Tickets

Photo by: Red Box Pictures

October 29, 2018 | Football

Full UW Game Notes w/ Depth UW-SU Flipcard

THE GAME: The Washington football team (4-2 Pac-12, 6-3 overall) heads into the final month of the season as Stanford (3-2, 5-3) pays a visit to Seattle. Kickoff is Saturday at 6:00 p.m. and the game will air on Pac-12 Networks. The Huskies enter the week unranked in the latest AP top 25 poll and No. 19 in the coaches poll, while the Cardinal are unranked in both. Washington has an off week following the Stanford game before wrapping up the season home vs. Oregon State and at Washington State.

QUICK HITTERS: Jake Browning broke the UW career passing yards record in the BYU game, passing Cody Pickett ... Browning's 11,153 career yards are 8th-most in Pac-12 history ... with 90 career touchdown passes, he's tied for 6th in Pac-12 history ... Browning is just the sixth player in Pac-12 history to account for 100 touchdowns (105 total: 90 pass, 15 rush) ... Sept. 1 vs. Auburn, Myles Gaskin became the UW's all-time leading rusher, moving past Napoleon Kaufman, who had held the record since 1994 ... Gaskin enters the Cal game with 4,678 yards, 6th-most in Pac-12 history ... Gaskin scored his 54th career touchdown against UCLA, extending his school record ... his 50 career rushing TDs (he has four receiving TDs) rank 5th in Pac-12 history ... against ASU, Ben Burr-Kirven notched 20 tackles, most by a Husky since 1996 ... Burr-Kirven's 122 total tackles (most in the nation) are already 38 more than his 13-game total of last year, which led the team ... no Husky has totaled more than 122 tackles for a season since 2011 ... for the first time since 1995, UW did not have a true freshman play in its season opener ... against North Dakota, however, four true freshmen saw action: DL Tuli Letuligasenoa, LB Jackson Sirmon, LB MJ Tafisi, OLB Zion Tupuola-Fetui ... cornerback Kyler Gordon played at Oregon and Julius Irvin played at Cal , becoming the fifth and sixth freshman to see action in 2018 ... Letuligasenoa also played against Colorado, but the other five have played in just one game each ... UW has outscored opponents 239-137 this year and, in quarters two and three (combined), UW is outscoring its opponents 120-51 this season ... UW is 31-8 over its last 39 games ... Washington hasn't allowed a team to score 40 points in its last 53 games and, during that same span, has allowed over 30 only four times ... over those 53 games, UW has outscored opponents, 1,809-931 ... UW enters Stanford week ranked No. 8 in scoring defense (15.2), No. 12 in total defense (301.2), No. 13 in passing yards allowed (171.7), and No. 18 in third-down conversions (.467) ... UW's defense has allowed just five scrimmage plays of 30 or more yards and just one of 40 or more – leading the nation in both categories.

TELEVISION: The Washington-Stanford game will air live to a national audience on Pac-12 Networkd with Roxy Bernstein (play-by-play), Anthony Herron (analyst) and Lewis Johnson (sidelines) on the call.

RADIO: The Washington IMG College Network, with its flagship station KOMO AM-1000 and FM-97.7, will carry the live broadcast of every football game on 17 Northwest radio stations. First-year play-by-play man Tony Castricone and color analyst Damon Huard are joined by sideline reporter Elise Woodward. The UW broadcast of the game will also air on Sirius (121) and XM (198) satellite radio, and is also available via TuneIn.com and the TuneIn app.

HUSKIES vs. CARDINAL HISTORY: Over 88 all-time meetings, Washington and Stanford are even at 42-42-4. After winning eight straight vs. Stanford from 1959 to 1966, the Huskies lost 10 in a row from 1967 to 1976. Since that 1976 loss, Washington has gone 23-12 against the Cardinal. One of those 12 losses was a big upset in 1982 when the No. 2 Huskies fell to the Cardinal, 43-31, in Palo Alto. The second UW loss during that stretch came at Stanford in 1994, when the Cardinal upset 12th-ranked Washington, 46-28. More recently, the Cardinal beat the Huskies, 27-13, at Palo Alto in 2004. After no game in 2005, Stanford won its second straight over the UW in a 20-3 victory in 2006 at Husky Stadium. The Cardinal also won seven seasons ago in Seattle, 35-28, and in 2010 in Palo Alto (34-14). Six years ago, Stanford blanked the UW, 41-0, at Husky Stadium; and in 2011, the Cardinal won, 65-21, at Stanford. Last year, the Cardinal earned a 31-14 victory on in Palo Alto, while in 2014, the Cardinal won a defensive battle in Seattle, 20-13, as Kevin Hogan's five-yard run with 4:29 broke a 13-13 tie. In 2013, the Cardinal edged the Dawgs in a close game in Palo Alto, 31-28, with Washington's attempt to drive or a tie or the lead stalled at midifeld with 1:16 left on the clock. In 2012 on a Thursday night in Seattle, the Huskies edged the No. 8 Cardinal, 17-13, thanks to a 61-yard run from Bishop Sankey and a 35-yard TD catch from Kasen Williams. Prior to that, the most recent UW victory had come in 2007, when the Huskies rushed for a total of 388 yards in a 27-9 win over the Cardinal. Louis Rankin led the way with 255 yards on 36 carries. In 2016 in Seattle, on a highly-charged Friday night at Husky Stadium, the 10th-ranked Dawgs beat the No. 7 Cardinal, 44-8. Jake Browning threw for two TD passes and Myles Gaskin ran for one more while the Cardinal ground game was held to just 29 yards, thanks in large part to eight sacks. Last season in Palo Alto, Stanford won, 30-22, despite three rushing TDs from Gaskin. Washington and Stanford first played one another in 1893 in a game that marked the first major college opponent for UW. That game, played in West Seattle, resulted in a 40-0 Stanford victory. There wouldn't be another matchup between the two schools until 1920, when the Cardinal nipped Washington, 3-0, in the last UW home game prior to the opening of Husky Stadium. After a 0-0 tie in 1921, the Huskies' first victory in the series came in 1922, 12-8 at Palo Alto.

HUSKIES vs. BAY AREA SCHOOLS: Washington has a combined, all-time record of 109-83-8 vs. opponents from the San Francisco Bay Area. Washington is 55-40-4 against Cal, 42-42-4 vs. Stanford, 10-0 vs. San Jose State, 1-1 vs. St. Mary's and 1-0 vs. Santa Clara. The Huskies haven't played Santa Clara since 1935 and St. Mary's since 1947. Since 1977, UW is 59-17-0 vs. Bay Area teams: 28-6 vs. Cal, 23-12 vs. Stanford and 8-0 vs. San Jose State.

THE PAC-12: Prior to the 2011 season, the Pac-10 Conference added Utah and Colorado to expand to the Pac-12. Washington, which along with California is one of two schools who have been in the conference since its founding in 1915, plays in the Pac-12 North, along with the other three Northwest schools (Oregon, OSU, WSU) and Stanford and Cal. Under current plans, each school will play all five division rivals, plus four of six teams in the other division each season. The first two seasons, the Huskies did not face UCLA or Arizona State. In 2013 and 14, the Huskies didn't face Utah or USC. In 2015 in 2016, neither UCLA nor Colorado were on the UW schedule, while the Huskies don't face USC and Arizona in 2017 or 2018.

THE 100-YARD FACTOR: Since the 1947 season, Washington is 214-66-3 (.761) when a Husky player rushes for 100 yards in a game. The Huskies were 8-0 in such games in 2016, were 5-1 in 2017 and are 2-0 this year.

HISTORY LESSON: Successfully rushing the football and winning go hand-in-hand for the Huskies. Since 1990, UW has rushed for 200 yards in a game 115 times. The Huskies' record stands at 98-16-1 (.856) in those contests. Since 1995, UW is 73-13-1 (.845) when rushing for 200 yards.

HUSKY STADIUM RENOVATION: Husky Stadium underwent a major renovation over from Nov., 2011, through Aug., 2013, as the entire lower bowl and south upper deck were demolished and replaced. The new facility features a new, state-of-the-art football operations center (weight room, training room, locker room, meeting rooms, coaches' offices) in the west end, much more premium seating options and a new playing surface. Husky Stadium had featured a track up until 2011, so seats that were once far from the field, particularly in the west end, are much closer to the action. UW is 32-8 at home since the re-opening of Husky Stadium.

ALASKA AIRLINES FIELD AT HUSKY STADIUM: The Oregon game on Nov. 5, 2011, marked the final game in Husky Stadium prior to major renovations that were completed in summer, 2013. The Huskies re-opened their home field with a 38-6 win over then-No. 19 Boise State on Aug. 31, 2013. The 2018 season marks the 99th season of play in Husky Stadium. Original construction on the facility was completed in 1920 when Washington played one game in the new campus facility. UW's all-time record in Husky Stadium stands at 388-177-21 (.680).