Is UW vs Zona really a toss-up?

Tailgater · September 2013

It sounds like half of you expect Rich Rod will take Sark to the woodshed again and the other half believe it will be a cakewalk for Sark's donut-hole sniffing Huskies. Is Saturday's game really that much of a brain-fart or could it turn out to be a barnburning toss-up?

Yes, the stomping we received in Tucson last year by Arizona under a new coach was shocking, even for Sarkball whose ineptitude on the road should by then have been approaching legendary disgust from any Dawgfan paying attention. However, my ticket says we catch the mildcats at our home on Saturday where Rich Rod has never been before and Sark's Huskies seem to possess some proficiency in saving their coach's bacon by beating these middling Pac-12 rivals when they come to town.

Sure, Arizona's undefeated record of 2.5 wins against the weak opposition of Northern Arizona(35-0), @ UNLV(58-13), and Texas-SA(38-13) is almost as impressive as UW's 2.5 wins against a similarly mediocre OOC schedule. Based on performances so far in 2013, neither team deserves to be favored except that our Huskies are at home where under Sark's management they are...... oh, never mind. Home field advantage is in this case worth at least a TD or two and perhaps more......... could I be more uncertain?

UW is likely favored and that's as it probably should be. IF Sark has solved his Ferrari's yip problems, the Husky offense will roll mostly behind Sankey's running setting up hurried bubbles on the wing and bombs down the middle and if UW's defense continues to improve, the final outcome won't be close. If nothing else and given what they suffered last year in Tucson, UW should be motivated to work hard all week and be prepared to blast the mildcats in the mouth.