Press(ing) Conference Monday [Premium Caple Content]

No major changes. Dwayne Washington is listed as the starting tailback, followed by Deontae Cooper and Lavon Coleman. Junior offensive guard Dexter Charles is still listed as the backup to Siosifa Tufunga, and John Ross III is still listed as a starting cornerback and backup receiver. Ben Riva is listed as the third-string right tackle behind James Atoe and Coleman Shelton.

Also: why not call timeout immediately after Arizona’s third-down play, giving the Huskies 25-30 seconds to try to score if Casey Skowron made the kick?

“Your second question, probably the thing I’m most discouraged about that whole thing is that he got a free kick. That was not the intent, and live and learn on that. We practice that every week ourselves, that if they ice you right at the end, you’re going to take a free kick. And so I tried to call timeout a little bit earlier, twice, and for whatever reason it wasn’t called, and that’s on me to make sure that we don’t even mess around with that. So that was probably as frustrating as anything. Going back and looking at it, we looked at our charts again, where we were, I would do exactly the same thing. I would run another play to probably our most sure-handed guy. That didn’t even enter my mind that was going to happen. It really didn’t. I know everybody else was probably thinking that, but it didn’t.”

But what did the Huskies have to lose by calling timeout with 30 seconds left?

“I guess we could have done that, yeah, and had a chance to return something,” Petersen conceded. “I think the main thing is going back to the first part of killing the clock, that whole situation. I would have done that the same. I would have run one more play and see where we were, and if we can run that thing all the way out.”