McGrath; After constant diet of cupcakes, Huskies hungry for red meat

DerekJohnson

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Gladstone

Yup:

Rutgers at home. Idaho at home. Portland State at home.

On a degree-of-difficulty scale, the Washington Huskies 2016 nonconference schedule lingered somewhere between changing a light bulb and riding a bike with training wheels.

Saturday night looms as an actual challenge for the Huskies. Arizona likely will wind up in one of those bowl contests nobody admits to watching, but it’s a Pac-12 opponent, on the road, in a stadium where the UW hasn’t won since 2006.

In other words, the training wheels are off. After three games that didn’t require the Huskies to move the chains in a clutch situation, or make a meaningful defensive stop, or manage the clock, their season finally has advanced to the this-time-it-counts phase.