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The Greatest Husky Teams of All-Time (updated)
WoolleyDoog
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Also know there was talk about his heading into this season I haven't seen post season. Where does the 2023 ultimately land in the conversation of greatest Husky teams of all-time? Keep in mind to me this isn't just a who would win on a neutral field thing. It's considering accomplishments.
- 1991 - no question
- 1984 - Legit Natty claim
- 1960 - Legit Natty claim
- 1959 - Close to a Natty claim I thought once. Blew out #6 Wisconsin to close the season
- 2023 - Hate putting a team Top 5 that lost by 21 to close and considered putting teams that closed with a win ahead of them but you can also think that they closed with a Sugar Bowl win over #3 Texas and just had to play another game.
- 1990 - Closed with 12-point Rose Bowl win. One of their losses was a close one at the eventually national champion
- 2016 - Straight up one game man I love this team's talent. Lacking big time wins and the way they lost to USC hurts them though.
- 2000 - Rose Bowl and Miami wins huge. Forget this team in my opinion should have played for the natty and could have beaten Oklahoma
- 1981 - Blowout Rose Bowl win. Don't like they got blown out twice though in their losses.
- 1982 - Was #1 for a while and so close to a bigger season
Others considered: 2022, 1977, 1992, 1980, 2018
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Thanks Woolley!
No huge qualms with this list.
Observation: Other than possibly '89-'93, I will put my years at UW ('80-'84) up against anyone's for best overall stretch over a similar (5-year) span.
Woolley nailed it
UW was pretty much robbed in '84.
Look at this bullshit.
I guess don't fucking lose to USC.
True story… ASU beat UW 26-7 in 1981 on my birthday. Chuck Nelson mailed me a letter in part apologizing for that loss.
Did Nelson miss seven field goals or something?
Hold on I gotta go hang my banner.
More thought I might put 77 higher. Closing strong is so big in college football and no blowout losses.
31 to zip to of course Ucla
Race?
I’d put 2000 over 2016, but that’s a nitpick.
2023 gets credit for winning 14 games. You could claim in old formats they have a bowl win and a split Natty, or could claim they lost it all by losing to Michigan in the Rose Bowl.
That previous summer I had been to Husky Football Camp. I was the captain of his team, Nelson's Nuggets. I was ten years old. I started writing him letters in the fall and he would write back full-page letters. I had told him in the summer of '81 how much I hated ASU because they beat us 1979 when we were 5-0. UW lost 26-7 and the following week I received a letter with him apologizing for the loss. Man I wish I still had that letter.
I've resigned that had things been the old way they would have just played Michigan in the Rose Bowl for basically a national title and lost. I don't think because they lost the natty and the way they lost it means they would lose to Michigan even 6 times out of 10 but I can't hypothetically say they wouldn't lose that game.