My first games were only in the early aughts but it's the best I've attended
For the record, I was watching the Oregon game on TV. But in my lifetime, it rivals these games for excitement at Husky Stadium:
1977 USC 28-10 win (I barely remember it - 6 years old)
1979 USC 24-17 loss
1982 UCLA 10-7 win (Incredibly intense)
1990 USC 31-0 win
1992 Nebraska 29-14 win
2000 Miami 34-29 win
2002 WSU 27-19 win
2009 USC 16-13 win
2016: Stanford 44-6 win
It didn't even rank #1 in the regular season games that year, for me. I'm not even sure it ranked #1 for the home games. Utah had a ton of more fans there and it was just a crazier atmosphere pregame.
Good list. I'd add the last Oregon game and also I believe the 1980 or 81 Fred Small kick recovery USC game. Huge windstorm and paved the way to a Rose Bowl.
Other than your first two, I've been to all of the others listed. I hate money.
It's probably #2 for me, behind Miami in 2000. I assume all I saw was purple was up there.
It was one of the most-painful games on the field, but there was a great feeling when the ball went through the uprights to close out the 2023 Apple Cup to seal 12-0, especially knowing it was the last real one.
That was the best post-game video we made from 2023 based on my memory.
The Duck posters are mostly gone. Stop.
Utah game got real crazy after Tuputala pulled a Leon Lett.🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
2023 and 2000 were seasons full of “crazy atmosphere” games. Heart attack city every fucking week.
I'll take more please
How could I have forgotten the '81 USC game? That might be #1 most excited I've seen Husky Stadium
Not quite every week. In 2000 we beat Cuog 51-3
That was a very cathartic plungering.
Good list, I was @ a few of those early 90’s games. Nebraska was indeed a great game, so was Miami. Beating Stanford was also up there. But, I’m not sure what Haie has been smoking, the UW/Oregon game might be the best game in UW lore. That stadium was epic, nobody sat down, screaming, people pissing in the stands. Both teams played A level ball that day, what’s more ESPN had to acknowledge it. The roar heard when he missed was something I’m never gonna forget. I’ve never been on the field til that day, my one and only rush the field event.
Not relevant to my opinion at all. No.
I know you are the king of trolling Ducks here, but if you think beating Utah at home was bigger than that Oregon win I think you're on an island occupied by you and @89ute.
I'm not trolling.
I actually think you have to put the Oregon game ahead of the Miami game because I also like to think of games in this context in vacuums. The hype going into the Miami game was nowhere near 2023 versus Oregon. I'll always remember getting into the stadium 45 minutes early and the concourses being full.
The Utah game was cool to me because it was just a run of the mill conference game but the stakes were big and it felt big. Then the game started and we got shredded by the pig farmer somehow and we failed to just put them away over and over and over again, including a guy dropping the ball at the two yard line.
I wasn't there, but I'd have to include 2016 Stanford. Especially in a vacuum and given how much Stanford had been a power at that time.
Disagree on Miami
Biggest non conference game in history.
2016 Stanford was a coming out party, super fun game which was decided 5min into 3rd Q
2023 Oregon was a suicide roller coaster that never felt won until it was
2016 Stanford when they were still seen as the premier program, at the very least the atmosphere was on another level from the 23 Oregon game. It's not even a question.
Michigan this year had a better buildup and atmosphere to that game.
91 at Nebraska was the programs most important non conference win.
Took my father to his last game in 92, Nebraska for the first night game in HS history. Beating Miami at home was probably the loudest I remember at Husky Stadium. Although I have only been home to watch our dawgs for game 1 of the remodel I’m skeptical HS will ever roar like it did between 90-92.
No question it was the biggest win but we're talking more game environment and at the time it wasn't as hyped as it seems in retrospect. Washington was seen as a borderline Top 15 team and Miami was number four, but it didn't seem the had The U mystique quite back yet. Obviously everything came together and the win in retrospects just gigantic. Miami wouldn't lose another game until the 2002 national championship (which was controversial) and wouldn't lose a regular season game until mid-2003.
It came up not long ago, but 2001 Michigan was a great game/atmosphere in a vacuum before both teams went 8-4 that year or whatever they did.
2000 Miami was certainly way more enjoyable than 2023 Oregon.
90 SC , 00Miami, 92Nebraska, 90 apple cup, 16 Stanford, and then 23 Oregon for me. I was there, man
It's not an all-timer but 2022 Michigan State is underrated even knowing that Michigan State ended up going 5-7 that year. I think it was easily the best game of that time frame and one of the better on a weak day so eyes were on Husky Stadium nationally. MSU was #11 and we mopped the field with them. More importantly, Penix flashed huge and Husky nation rejoiced watching a functioning offense after two years of being in Guantanamo with Lake and Donovan and even before that Peterseman after 2016.
I'll always remember that Penix TD zipping right past our section to Taulapapa. Still probably the best laser I've ever seen in-person from a QB.
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love me some @haie, but the 2023 Oregon game was big
Were you guys at the game? It was every single thing that is insufferable about having to play Oregon wrapped into one 3-4 hour session.
Impossible to go to Oregon 2022 game and think anything positive about the 2023 game other than at least we weren't playing from behind afterwards for the CFP.
Hey, but that doesn't include getting to see a troll in a Conerly jersey have a breakdown after the game and go unresponsive in his seat or walking by said Conerly and Limar families by the tunnel after the game. That jersey will be speshul and worth a lot when he goes in the second round next month.
I would have loved a second round talent on last years UW offensive line. Just sayin.
