Good thing Husky Nation will show up for the big games at good time of day
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Yes, I do believe it made a difference in the game, and no I don’t think UW needed to take chances like that because that’s not how the game was playing out. Next
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Pretty sure the actual outcome of the game dictates that there was not a 50% chance. hth. And again, do you think a FGA there changes the outcome? No, you don't.
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Yes actually I do. Going up 6-0 with a juiced crowd > 3-0 giving Ohio State a short field and taking the air out of the stadium. Obviously it’s a counterfactual and there’s no way to know for sure, but to claim the game was a foregone conclusion isn’t true. It very much wasn’t.
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The key to beating Miami was to jump them early and not let Dorothy do shit for 30 minutes while building a big enough lead to withstand the inevitable comeback by the superior team
Ohio State handed UW a 14-0 lead. UW said thanks anyway but no
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can we bring back the refugee and then let these two have a two man circle jerk over there and keep it off the main boreds?
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you can’t blame Husky fans. Not only was Hamilton in town, but the new Seattle waterfront is open and safe. Too much going on.
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One among other things with which this board struggles is the notion that multiple things can be true at the same time. Like I can say Demond is short and still think he's a good/great QB. This and that, all at once.
Consider:
- There were similarities to Miami in that both had a green QB on the road at Husky Stadium for their first big road test.
- But beardo played it smart by calling an incredibly conservative game, and that without the running game he had a year ago. Just sayin, kid looked like Joe Montana out there dinking and dunking. Butch Davis, a program rebuilder and recruiter but not a great game day coach, did not do that.
- 2000 UW was different than these guys and Rick was different than this guy. IMO. Tui was made of different stuff. No Stevens, no road grader O line, no nasty D line, no Vontoure.
- Lots of outmanned teams jump on an better opponent and the better opponent eventually settles in so it never really matters. I mean, even Oregon started out well against Buck in 2014/15, scoring first and holding them on their first drive. Mariota hits a wide open somebody who would have walked in to score but he dropped the pass. Then Buck started scoring and never stopped. It's fun to say, "We would have been up 14-0" and had momentum but they were never going to win that game.
- Still, 2025 Buck is not in the same hemisphere as 2014/15 Buck and this team is more beatable. So, yeah, your "odds" are ostensibly better when you don't fuck up. That's basic and nobody needs that explained to them. But UW was probably not going to win that game. I predicted they would because nothing surprises me and I thought Demond might light them up on the ground at least. But Buck beat UW playing a very safe game. That's the tell. Play them later and might get ugly.
So, not one narrative. Multiple, competing, narratives.
