Dawgs Headed To Iowa For First Time In 60 Years

Saturday, October 12

Iowa City, Iowa

9:00 AM

University of Washington

Iowa

Kamren Fabiculanan interception vs. Michigan 2024

Photo by: Scott Eklund / Red Box Pictures

October 07, 2024 | Football

Full UW Game Notes (PDF)

THE GAME: The Washington football team (4-2, 2-1 Big Ten) travels to Iowa City, where the Dawgs will take on Iowa (3-2, 1-1) in the Huskies' first trip to Kinnick Stadium since 1964. Kickoff is set for 9:00 a.m. PT/11:00 a.m. CT and the game will air on FOX television. The Huskies are coming off of a 27-17 win over then-No. 10 Michigan at Husky Stadium, but won't play another home game during the month of October. After the Iowa game, UW has an off week before playing at Indiana on Oct. 26. UW next plays at home Nov. 2 vs. USC.

QUICK HITTERS: Washington leads the nation in pass efficiency defense, and is No. 13 in pass efficiency (offense) ... the Huskies also rank No. 3 in pass yards allowed, No. 8 in both total defense and red-zone defense, and No. 10 in scoring defense ... UW opponents are averaging 4.46 yards per pass attempt and 4.16 per play, No. 1 and No. 6 in FBS, respectively ... Washington has won 18 consecutive home games, longest in modern school history (the longest, 45 games, was from 1908-1917, part of UW's NCAA-record 64-game unbeaten streak) ... among active FBS players, UW QB Will Rogers III ranks No. 1 in career attempts (2,054) and completions (1,432); and No. 2 in passing yards (13,940), TDs (106) and completion percentage (.697) ... with 60 more passing yards, Rogers will become just the 14th player in FBS history to pass for 14,000-plus yards ... UW RB Jonah Coleman leads FBS with 31 scrimmage plays of 10 yards or longer, and with 24 rushes of 10-plus yards ... WR Denzel Boston leads the Big Ten and is No. 2 in FBS with eight touchdown receptions ... he needs just one more to make the UW single-season top-10 list ... 34 players made their Husky debut in the Weber State game, including nine true freshmen ... four more players saw their first UW action vs. EMU ... UW has just three turnovers through six games ... only one FBS team with six games played this season has fewer ... not counting the four-game 2020 season, the Huskies have won 10 or more games in five of the last seven seasons ... Washington is 76-28 since the end of the 2015 season, and 29-5 since the end of 2021 ... the current UW roster includes players who list hometowns from 19 different states, as well as in Germany and Canada ... UW's 109-man roster entering the year includes 25 true freshmen, 20 redshirt freshmen, 16 sophomores, 27 juniors, and 21 seniors ... the Husky roster includes five players in their sixth season at UW: DL Jacob Bandes, RB Cameron Davis, S Kamren Fabiculanan, LB Drew Fowler, and LB Alphonzo Tuputala ... those five are playing for their fourth different head coach in 2024.

TELEVISION: The Washington-Iowa game will air on FOX, with Jason Benetti, Brock Huard and Allison Williams calling the action. For more information on how to watch, go to foxsports.com/live.

RADIO: All Washington football games will air on the Washington Sports Network from Learfield, with Tony Castricone (play by play), former Husky tight end Cameron Cleeland (analyst) and former UW basketball player Elise Woodward (sidelines) on the call. Radio coverage begins four hours before kickoff on the network's flagship station – Seattle's SportsRadio KJR 93.3 FM – with "Husky Gameday" live from The Zone for Husky home games. Statewide coverage on the 16-station Washington Sports Network begins two hours before kickoff. The entire broadcast is available worldwide on the Huskies Gameday mobile app and the Varsity app. The UW broadcast of this game will also air on Sirius/XM channel 382 (Iowa broadcast on 138 and 195). Additionally, the Husky Football Coach's Show airs each Monday during the season at 6:00 p.m. PT.

B1G TIME: As has been well documented over the last year-plus, Washington has officially joined the Big Ten Conference ahead of the 2024-25 school year, effective on Aug. 2, 2024. The Huskies are joined be fellow former Pac-12 programs Oregon, UCLA and USC in making the move to the B1G, which now includes 18 schools. Washington was one of four founding members of the Pacific Coast Conference (along with Cal, Oregon and Oregon State), and, along with Cal, was one of just two teams that were a part of that league (which changed names to the AAWU, Pac-8, Pac-10 and Pac-12) for the entirety of its full-fledged existence from 1915 to 2024.

FUTURE SCHEDULES: Last October, the Big Ten revealed 18 football teams' home and away, conference opponents for the next for the next five seasons (2024-28). Here are the UW's home and road, Big Ten games, for the coming four years:
2025: home – Illinois, Ohio State, Oregon, Purdue, Rutgers; road – Maryland, Michigan, UCLA, Wisconsin
2026: home – Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Penn State; road – Michigan State, Nebraska, Oregon, Purdue, USC
2027: home – Maryland, Michigan State, Nebraska, Oregon, USC; road – Minnesota, Northwestern, Penn State, Rutgers
2028: home – Michigan, Northwestern, UCLA, Wisconsin; road – Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio State, Oregon

HUSKIES vs. HAWKEYES HISTORY: Washington and Iowa have squared off six times in the two program's histories – three in the regular season and three (the three most recent games) in bowl games. The teams have split those six games, with three wins each.

The first meeting came in Seattle in the 1937 opener for both teams, a 14-0 Washington win. The game was the varsity debut for legendary Iowa quarterback Nile Kinnick, who would win the Heisman Trophy in two seasons later, in 1939. Washington quarterback Fritz Waskowitz led the UW with a pair of touchdown passes, to Dick Johnson and Tom Sheldrake. Coincidentally, both Kinnick and Waskowitz would go on to lose their lives in World War II. Kinnick perished in an airplane crash off of Venezuela in 1943, while Waskowitz, piloting a bomber, was shot down by Japanese fire in the Pacific in 1942. The '37 UW captain was known for leading the Huskies to a 0-0 tie with No. 1 Cal in Berkeley that season, the Bears' only blemish in their most recent national championship season.

Washington and Iowa didn't meet again until Oct. 5, 1963, when the Hawkeyes returned to Seattle and handed the Huskies their third straight loss to open the season (UW won six of its next seven and earned a Rose Bowl berth). Iowa was led by quarterback Jay Roberts, who rushed for one touchdown and passed for another in a 17-7 win, while fullback Charlie Browning ran for UW's only score. The following season, in the Huskies' lone trip to Iowa City prior to 2024, the Hawkeyes picked up a 28-18 win over No. 10 UW. The Huskies trailed, 14-0, before a safety and touchdown runs from Browning and Ron Medved gave the visitors a 15-14 lead, extended to 18-14 by a field goal just before halftime. However, after a scoreless third quarter, Iowa QB Gary Snook completed his second TD pass of the game to put the home team on top. After a fumble on the ensuring UW drive, Snook ran in for the final score of the game.

Following those two meetings in the 1960s, the teams didn't meet again until the 1982 Rose Bowl game. The Huskies, underdogs going in, shut out the Hawkeyes, 28-0, behind freshman Jacque Robinson, the game's MVP. Robinson rushed for 142 yards and two touchdowns while the Husky defense forced five turnovers. Nine years later, they met again, in the 1991 Rose Bowl, following the 1990 season, the first of three straight Rose Bowls for the Huskies. Washington, which had stumbled vs. UCLA in the next-to-last game of the regular season to spoil a possible national title bid, won a shootout, 46-34. Husky QB Mark Brunell scored two touchdowns each, rushing and passing, to earn MVP, while tailback Greg Lewis, the Doak Walker Award winner who'd missed the last month rehabbing a knee injury, rushed for 128 yards. Washington also scored on a 27-yard blocked punt return from Dana Hall and a 37-yard interception return from Charles Mincy.

The most recent UW-Iowa game was 29 years ago, at the 1995 Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, where the Hawkeyes beat the Pac-10 co-champs, 38-18. Iowa led the game 24-0 before UW finally got on the scoreboard in the third quarter, and were up 38-6 before two, late Husky scores. Iowa backs Sedrick Shaw (135 yards) and Tavian Banks (122) each rushed for 100 yards in the win.

ROSTER TURNOVER: One main storyline for the 2024 UW football team has been about the amount of change that has occured since the end of the 2023 season. In fact, UW has just two returning, regular starters back from '23 (LB Alphonzo Tuputala and CB Elijah Jackson), and the Huskies lost 41 letterwinners off of last year's team, while adding 59 new players to the roster since the end of last season. On the depth chart for the season-opener in 2023, 44 players were listed on offense and defense. Just 11 of those 44 are still on the Husky roster (and just two of those 11 are on offense). In the season-opener vs. Weber State, a total of 34 players saw their first action in a Washington uniform. Nine of those 34 were true freshman.

GRADUATES: A total of 21 Huskies head into the 2024 season already having earned their undergraduate degree. Here's the list: RB Sam Adams II, S Cameron Broussard, DL Jacob Bandes, LB Carson Bruener, TE Owen Coutts, RB Cameron Davis, S Makell Esteen, S Kamren Fabiculanan, LB Drew Fowler, S Justin Harrington, WR Jeremiah Hunter, WR Giles Jackson, DL Deshawn Lynch, OL Gaard Memmelaar, TE Quentin Moore, QB Will Rogers, DL Logan Sagapolu, WR Camden Sirmon, OL D'Angalo Titialii, LB Alphonzo Tuputala, OL Enokk Vimahi.

MORE LONG PLAYS: Over the last several years, Washington has been one of the top teams in the nation in terms of long scrimmage plays. And, while the players and coaches have largely changed, that's no different in 2024. Through six games, UW has 111 plays of 10 yards or longer (5th-most in FBS), and 32 of 20 or longer (t-17th). UW running back Jonah Coleman is first in FBS with 31 scrimmage plays of 10 or more yards, and is tied for first in the country with 24 rushes of 10-plus yards.

NFL CONNECTIONS: Much has been made of the UW coaching staff's NFL connections, including that coordinators Steve Belichick (Bill) and Brennan Carroll (Pete), as well as analyst Luke Del Rio (Jack) and GA Jake Lynch (John), are all sons of prominent NFL coaches and GMs. Three other staff members – Scottie Graham, Vinnie Sunseri and quality control analyst Caleb Wilson – played in the NFL. Also, graduate assistant Dom Caldwell's uncle, David, is a longtime NFL executive, having served as the Jaguars general manager, among other roles. UW's player roster also includes a number of sons of former NFL players: Sam Adams II (Sam), Carson Bruener (Mark), Roice Cleeland (Cam), Quentin Moore (Mark), Russell Davis II (Russell), Dyson McCutcheon (Daylon; plus grandfather, Lawrence), and Justice Williams (Roland). Lastly, Daniyel Ngata (Joseph), Ryan Otton (Cade), and Keleki Latu (Laiatu) each have older brothers who are active NFL players.

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 2024 season marks the 104th 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 417-185-21 (.686). Washington is 61-16 in home games since the stadium re-opened in 2013.