25 For 2025 Ranking Washington's Seasons of This Millenium
WoolleyDoog
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Keeping the trend going of 25 seasons in this millennium - how do you rank the past 25 Husky seasons not just by success but also by enjoyability?
25. 2008 0-12 (0-9)
24. 2004 1-10 (0-8) - low-key this team was probably worse than 2008 (definitely if 08 has a healthy Lockner)
23. 2005 2-9 (1-7) - Another low-key just all time bad team
22. 2021 4-8 (3-6)
21. 2007 4-9 (2-7)
20. 2006 5-7 (3-6) - Underrated what if scene - we were on track to win at least 8-9 with a healthy Stands back
19. 2020 COVID BS
18. 2003 6-6 (4-4) - 500 but doom felt imminent
17. 2014 8-6 (4-5)
16. 2024 6-7 (4-5)
15. 2019 8-5 (4-5) - Eight wins but boy what disappointing joyless season
14. 2009 5-7 (4-5) - forgot we go boweling this year if we either don't schedule two blue bloods out of conference or get fucked in South Bend
13. 2015 7-6 (4-5) - Peterman's version of 2009
12. 2002 7-6 (4-4) - Started season #11 and should have won at Michigan. NW Championship run was special but getting beat by Purdue in El Paso and original we lost to Cal was not
11. 2012 7-6 (5-4)
10. 2011 7-6 (5-4)
9. 2013 9-4 (5-4) - honestly highlight may have been trading Sark for Peterlips.
8. 2001 8-4 (6-2)
7. 2010 7-6 (5-4) - better records above, but this felt great getting back to a bowl game, and a redemption win over Bo Pelenis in San Diego
6. 2017 10-3 (7-2) - A joyless fucking 10-win season. Ridiculous this team lost more than one Pac-12 game.
5. 2018 10-4 (7-2)
4. 2022 11-2 (7-2) - Weird since we had traumatic losses at UCLA and ASU, but one of the most enjoyable seasons in Husky history down the stretch
3. 2000 11-1 (7-1)
2. 2016 12-2 (8-1) - You could sell me on either order of 2000 and 2016
- 2023 14-1 (10-0)
Comments
Agree
I can't make an argument against Owen, Gilbert year 2 and Ty year 1 being the worst. Covid year and especially the year after were so bad they made me forget those shit shows for a while though.
2024 might've scored a little worse for me, but I can't see where to move it to at first glance. Half of that could just be my attitude tanking after "natty gate", which is what I just made up as a title to the piss poor effort in the natty game.
2021 was the year that almost had me walk away from UW completely. I put every UW article of clothing but one in a box in the attic and hardly watched any games.
I suppose I was young and naive enough back in the Gilby to Tyrone years that I thought there was still tim to get back. I also hadn’t lived in Seattle since shortly after graduating high school in 91 so I wasn’t in tune with the program.
I should also note my cynicism towards UW leadership really started peaking around the tim I got heavily into Doogman circa early 2007 and leading into the HHB days.
I don’t think I watched a single game in 2021. I was busy during the Montana game, saw what an embarrassing shitshow that was, then checked out until 2022.
Yeah 2021 and the 2024 offseason are the two times I thought about just stepping away. Even when things were far worse on the field in 2008 and 04/05, it was still the Pac-10, college football was much more cyclical and it felt like we were a decent hire away and some built up recruiting classes away from being back to at least decent. Which Sark showed was true in 09. My only big fear was never catching USC. By 2021 it felt like with the way the sport broke you could easily disappear with a bad season or too and like UW was gonna get left behind.
2021 was when everybody around me that used to go to games with me bailed. If it wasn't losing to Montana it was forcing you to show up to the Arkansas State game and wait in line so you could get your little card proving that you got the jab.
If it wasn't any of those things then it was barely beating Cal and then there was nowhere to celebrate aftwards beacuse all 8 little 4-person street bubbles were filled by the people that didn't stick around to watch OT in the stadium.
If it wasn't any of those things then it was losing to Beavlet the next weekend despite Sean McGrew doing everything he could to win the game by himself and realizing that you were a last place Northwest Championship pile of dogshit.
2000 has to be #2
Losing to Bama was not special
The 2000 season was by far the most enjoyable, but I was in a different headspace then. College football seemed so much more pure to me then. (If pure is the right word). Its possible I'm being naive
What does it say about Willingham that all four of his UW seasons were ranked as less enjoyable than the 2020 Covid nonsense season?
It says he was a molder of men
I believe the 2016 team was more talented than 2000, but 2016’s signature win was blowing out a falling Stanford and embarrassing Duck to the point of firing their coach. Fun no doubt, but no real accomplishment.
beating #2 and #4 in the end of year polls is so far beyond 2016 it’s comical. 2016’s best win at the end of the season was… Colorado?
Same on 2021. Almost snuffed out my passion completely. Gear in a closet and I watched the games numbly rooting for Jimmy to lose big in the hope that if it were bad enough they might consider letting him go. Really what I foresaw was two more years of Lake tearing down and incinerating the program, mass exodus of players and top 50 recruiting classes full of diamonds in the rough that just needed to be developed by Lakes growing staff of sycophantic analysts promoted to position coaches. Cohens decisive move after the sideline love tap was easily one of the top 5 greatest moments of the last 25 years.
Losing to USC at home in 2016 hurts that year. Losing at Oregon hurts 2000 but Miami and the Beavers make up for it
This is probably right. I sometimes forget 2000 was a lot like 2023 where they almost lost almost every single game, particularly to random Pac teams. They were actually behind late in a lot of games in 2000 too.
Beating Sark at SC and watching his meltdown realtime was not only my Husky highlight in 2016 but the entire Peterman era. Beating Pedo in the Fiesta and Ohio State during the Rose Bowl would have obviously been tops.
Rose Bowl win Jan.1.2001 > 2016 season and major bowl loss.
We need the Fiesta Bowl win to complete our career slam. Nice to get the Sugar Bowl although we damn near gave that game away late. That near late game collapse never happens if BeBoer was laser focused and not one foot out.
I stand corrected we did lose to US at home in 2016, that hurt. My memory was the sark sc meltdown game was 2016. 2015 #dipshitAIDawg 🤦♂️