UW wins a national championship in 1990 if Greg Lewis doesn't get hurt vs UCLA
UW wins a national champions in 1990 if Mark Brunell could actually throw the football when it actually mattered:
at Colorado (20-14 loss) … 16 of 34 for 190 yards; 1 TD and 3 INTs
4 straight incompletions on 1st and goal inside the 10 at the end of the game … in fairness 2 of those balls should have been caught … honorable mention to PinkelFS for calling 4 straight passes with both of your starting WRs injured during the drive (McKay cracked in the ribs, Bailey with a likely concussion … both re-entered the game) instead of leveraging your best player (Greg Lewis) when you had plenty of time remaining in the game to run the ball
vs UCLA (25-22 loss) …10 of 34 for 137 yards; 1 TD and 2 INTs
Brunell basically was miserable all day long and if you go back and watch the game it was obvious that he really didn't know how to play QB at that point in time
Win one of those games and UW likely is a back to back National Champion, probably isn't sharing the title with MIami in 1991, and the overall impression of UW as a power program is far higher
What do you think about 92 if the Billy Joe shit happens? I guess even if the Doogs win out it's still another split conversation with Bama, who might be hard to eclipse after blowing out Miami in the Sugar Bowl - though it's crazy at that time, I feel like the respect for the SEC wasn't automatic.
A couple more. My doog has waned over time, but we should have played Oklahoma in the BCS Championship in 2000 and I think we would have won and stole a national title with a super flawed team. At the very least it should have been fucking Miami. It sucks we let them steal a couple scores late because we had them beat convincingly and by more than the final indicated.
2018 if we don't schedule a road game basically against Auburn late we might have run the table and gotten to get beat by Alabama or Clemson in the playoff. Our entire team, particularly the RBs got banged up trying to win that game and then we didn't have a bye week until mid-November. They dont' lose to Oregon or Cal with a relatively healthy Gaskin or Ahmed.
2018 was a squandered year and the conference fucked us. The conference sucked that year and we should have ran the table and got the right to get plundered in the final four.
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Washington wins the natty if a hold isn't made up on Rosengarten on the 40 yard bomb to Odunze, down 7 with 8 minutes left to go.
Washington beats Alabama if Browning doesn't hurt his shoulder, and Joe Mathis + Azeem Victor doesn't get injured. Lot of ifs there I know.
Washington should be a perennial top 12 program by even doing a mediocre job of using its inherent advantages.
UW wins a national championship in 1990 if Greg Lewis doesn't get hurt vs UCLA
UW wins a national champions in 1990 if Mark Brunell could actually throw the football when it actually mattered:
at Colorado (20-14 loss) … 16 of 34 for 190 yards; 1 TD and 3 INTs
4 straight incompletions on 1st and goal inside the 10 at the end of the game … in fairness 2 of those balls should have been caught … honorable mention to PinkelFS for calling 4 straight passes with both of your starting WRs injured during the drive (McKay cracked in the ribs, Bailey with a likely concussion … both re-entered the game) instead of leveraging your best player (Greg Lewis) when you had plenty of time remaining in the game to run the ball
vs UCLA (25-22 loss) …10 of 34 for 137 yards; 1 TD and 2 INTs
Brunell basically was miserable all day long and if you go back and watch the game it was obvious that he really didn't know how to play QB at that point in time
Win one of those games and UW likely is a back to back National Champion, probably isn't sharing the title with MIami in 1991, and the overall impression of UW as a power program is far higher
What do you think about 92 if the Billy Joe shit happens? I guess even if the Doogs win out it's still another split conversation with Bama, who might be hard to eclipse after blowing out Miami in the Sugar Bowl - though it's crazy at that time, I feel like the respect for the SEC wasn't automatic.
A couple more. My doog has waned over time, but we should have played Oklahoma in the BCS Championship in 2000 and I think we would have won and stole a national title with a super flawed team. At the very least it should have been fucking Miami. It sucks we let them steal a couple scores late because we had them beat convincingly and by more than the final indicated.
2018 if we don't schedule a road game basically against Auburn late we might have run the table and gotten to get beat by Alabama or Clemson in the playoff. Our entire team, particularly the RBs got banged up trying to win that game and then we didn't have a bye week until mid-November. They dont' lose to Oregon or Cal with a relatively healthy Gaskin or Ahmed.
We fucked the dog in Eugene and I was there and it sucked.
2018 was a squandered year and the conference fucked us. The conference sucked that year and we should have ran the table and got the right to get plundered in the final four.