The Greatest Husky Teams of All-Time (updated)
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
Comments
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Thanks Woolley!
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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.
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Woolley nailed it
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True story… ASU beat UW 26-7 in 1981 on my birthday. Chuck Nelson mailed me a letter in part apologizing for that loss.
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Did Nelson miss seven field goals or something?
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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.
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31 to zip to of course Ucla
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Race?
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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.
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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.
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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.
