Saturday, October 8
Tempe, AZ
1:00 PM
University of Washington
at
Arizona State
Photo by: Mike Fiechtner/UW Football
No. 21 Huskies Headed To Desert To Face ASU
October 03, 2022 | Football
THE GAME: The Washington football team (4-1 overall, 1-1 Pac-12) returns to the road for the second week in a row, traveling to play Arizona State (1-4, 0-2) Saturday afternoon in Tempe. Kickoff is 1:00 p.m. PT/MT and the game will air on Pac-12 Network. UW will be looking to rebound from its first loss of the season last Friday night at UCLA, while ASU has lost four straight. Washington maintained a spot in this week's polls despite the loss, ranking No. 21 in the new AP top 25 and No. 24 in the coaches' poll.
QUICK HITTERS: Washington is No. 3 in the NCAA-FBS in passing offense, and is No. 7 in total offense ... Husky quarterback Michael Penix, Jr. leads the nation in passing yards and passing yards per game, and is No. 5 in passing touchdowns ... he is also No. 3 in total offense ... Penix's 16 touchdowns, through only five games, are just three shy of making the UW single-season top-10 list ... Washington has scored on its first possession of both the first and second half in every game this season ... no UW opponent this season has scored on its first drive of the game ... Washington has punted in the first half just twice this year, and has punted just 10 times all season ... UW has gone 3-and-out just four times in 55 offensive possessions this year ... through five games, the Huskies have had five 100-yard receiving performances, from four different players: Rome Odunze (2), Giles Jackson, Jalen McMillan & Ja'Lynn Polk ... only once before in UW history (2001) have four different UW players recorded a 100-yard receiving game over a three-game stretch, as those four did this year (games two through four) ... six true freshmen have played for the UW this season: DL Jayvon Parker, CB Jayvion Green, PK Grady Gross, WR Denzel Boston, S Tristan Dunn & EDGE Lance Holtzclaw ... the Husky roster includes 31 newcomers in 2022; here's a breakdown: 20 freshmen, two junior college transfers, and nine four-year college transfers ... of the 115 players on the roster, 55 are listed as freshmen (17) or redshirt freshmen (38), with an additional 28 sophomores ... that means that 83 of 115 players (72 percent) have three or more years of remaining eligibility entering the 2022 season ... UW has 12 players who are in their final year of eligibility in 2022.
TELEVISION: The Washington-Arizona State game will air on Pac-12 Network, with J.B. Long and Lincoln Kennedy calling the action. Fans with the proper subscription can also watch at Pac-12.com/live.
RADIO: All Washington football games will air on the Washington Sports Network from Learfield, with Tony Castricone (play by play), former Husky tight end Cameron Cleeland (analyst) and former UW basketball player Elise Woodward (sidelines) on the call. Radio coverage begins four hours before kickoff on the network's flagship station – Seattle's SportsRadio KJR 93.3 FM – with "Husky Gameday" live from The Zone for Husky home games. Statewide coverage on the 12-station Washington Sports Network begins two hours before kickoff. The entire broadcast is available worldwide on the Huskies Gameday mobile app and the Varsity app. The UW broadcast of this game will also air on SiriusXM channel 98. Additionally, the Husky Football Coaches Show airs each Wednesday during the season (starting Aug. 24), at 6:00 p.m. PT.
HUSKIES vs. DEVILS HISTORY: Arizona State leads the all-time series against the Huskies, 20-17. At one point, the UW led the series 15-8, but ASU has had the better of it in recent years, winning 12 of the last 14.
Last year, the Huskies took the early lead, but ASU scored 21 in the fourth quarter to win, 35-30. Before 2021, the two teams hadn't met since 2018, a 27-20 Husky win at Husky Stadium in both teams' fourth game of the season. Husky QB Jake Browning was an efficient 15-for-22 for 202 yards and three touchdowns, while the UW defense held ASU to 268 yards of total offense.
In 2017 in Tempe, the Devils handed the Huskies a 13-7 loss, but the season before that in Seattle, Washington beat Arizona State, 44-18, in the UW's final home game of the season, breaking the Sun Devils' 10-game win streak in the series.
Washington first met the Devils in 1975. That '75 game marked the only time that the two teams ever played one another prior to the Sun Devils joining the Pac-10 Conference before the 1978 season. The Huskies lost that first-ever meeting at Tempe in 1975, 35-12, but routed the 12th-ranked Devils in the next matchup, winning 41-7 at Husky Stadium in 1978.
Some of the Huskies' most memorable games in modern history have come vs. ASU. In the 1995 season-opener, tailback Rashaan Shehee hit receiver Fred Coleman with a 30-yard TD pass late in the fourth quarter to give Washington a 23-20 win. The following year at Tempe, Washington trailed 42-21 before backup QB Brock Huard came on to lead the Huskies to three fourth-quarter TDs, but Robert Nycz kicked a 38-yard field goal with 0:02 left to win, 45-42.
In 1998 at Sun Devil Stadium, the Huskies pulled off the "Miracle in the Desert" as Huard hit tight end Reggie Davis with a 63-yard pass on fourth-and-17 with 0:28 left in the game to pull out a 42-38 Washington win. In 2001, the Huskies capped a seven-minute, 12-second drive with a 30-yard field goal with no time remaining to edge the Devils, 33-31.
100-YARD RECEIVERS: Washington has already had four different receivers record a 100-yard game this season, and it happened over the span of just three games – games two, three and four vs. Portland State (Jalen McMillan, 127; Giles Jackson, 105), Michigan State (Ja'Lynn Polk, 153) and Stanford (Rome Odunze, 161 ... Odunze also had 116 at UCLA). Including this season, only 19 times in UW history have the Huskies had four, 100-yard receiving games over the course of a single season, but in 15 of those cases, those performances were by three or fewer different players. Only four times in UW history have four different players posted a 100-yard receiving game in a single season. Among those four years (1949, 2001, 2002 and 2011), on only one occasion did four different players record a 100-yard game over a three game stretch, in the middle of the 2001 season. They were:
Reggie Williams, 101, vs. USC (game 4)
Todd Elstrom, 112, vs. UCLA (game 5)
Paul Arnold, 138, vs. Arizona (game 6)
Patrick Reddick, 102, vs. Arizona (game 6)
EXPERIENCE AND YOUTH: Thanks in part to the extended eligibility that resulted from the pandemic, Washington's 2021 roster is remarkable for both its youth and its experience, all at once. The roster includes 18 individuals who have started at least one game on offense, and another 18 on defense. All totaled, those 35 players (one of them, Alex Cook, has started on offense and defense) have started 248 games (147 on offense, 101 on defense). And, that doesn account for the handful of veteran transfers who were mulit-year starters at their previous school, and also doesn't account for specialists, who are also seasoned starters at their positions.
All that said, the UW roster includes just 12 players in their final year of available eligibility: CB Jordan Perryman, LB Cam Bright, EDGE Jeremiah Martin, S Alex Cook, WR Brennan Holmes, PK Peyton Henry, OL Jaxson Kirkland, OL Henry Bainivalu, OL Corey Luciano, P Kevin Ryan, LB Kristopher Moll and RB Wayne Taulapapa. Of the 114 players on the current roster, 55 are listed as freshmen (17) or redshirt freshmen (38), while 27 more are sophomores. That means that 82 of 114 players (72 percent) have three or more years of eligibility remaining, entering the 2022 season.
THE PAC-12: Prior to the 2011 season, the Pac-10 Conference added Utah and Colorado to expand to the Pac-12. Washington, which along with California is one of two schools who have been in the conference since its founding in 1915, plays in the Pac-12 North, along with the other three Northwest schools (Oregon, OSU, WSU) and Stanford and Cal. Under the current system, each school plays all five division rivals, plus four of six teams in the other division each season. The first two seasons, the Huskies did not face UCLA or Arizona State. In 2013 and 14, the Huskies didn't play Utah or USC. In 2015 in 2016, neither UCLA nor Colorado were on the UW schedule, while the Huskies didn't face USC and Arizona in 2017 or 2018. The 2019 season marked the start of a new cycle, moving the rotation back to where it started. Therefore, the Huskies 2019 and 2020 scheduled did not include UCLA and Arizona State. In 2021 and 2002, Washington are not scheduled to play USC and Utah.
HUSKY STADIUM RENOVATION: Husky Stadium underwent a major renovation over from Nov., 2011, through Aug., 2013, as the entire lower bowl and south upper deck were demolished and replaced. The new facility features a new, state-of-the-art football operations center (weight room, training room, locker room, meeting rooms, coaches' offices) in the west end, much more premium seating options and a new playing surface. Husky Stadium had featured a track up until 2011, so seats that were once far from the field, particularly in the west end, are much closer to the action. UW is 47-16 at home since the re-opening of Husky Stadium.
ALASKA AIRLINES FIELD AT HUSKY STADIUM: The Oregon game on Nov. 5, 2011, marked the final game in Husky Stadium prior to major renovations that were completed in summer, 2013. The Huskies re-opened their home field with a 38-6 win over then-No. 19 Boise State on Aug. 31, 2013. The 2021 season marks the 101st season of play in Husky Stadium. Original construction on the facility was completed in 1920 when Washington played one game in the new campus facility. UW's all-time record in Husky Stadium stands at 403-185-21 (.679).
QUICK HITTERS: Washington is No. 3 in the NCAA-FBS in passing offense, and is No. 7 in total offense ... Husky quarterback Michael Penix, Jr. leads the nation in passing yards and passing yards per game, and is No. 5 in passing touchdowns ... he is also No. 3 in total offense ... Penix's 16 touchdowns, through only five games, are just three shy of making the UW single-season top-10 list ... Washington has scored on its first possession of both the first and second half in every game this season ... no UW opponent this season has scored on its first drive of the game ... Washington has punted in the first half just twice this year, and has punted just 10 times all season ... UW has gone 3-and-out just four times in 55 offensive possessions this year ... through five games, the Huskies have had five 100-yard receiving performances, from four different players: Rome Odunze (2), Giles Jackson, Jalen McMillan & Ja'Lynn Polk ... only once before in UW history (2001) have four different UW players recorded a 100-yard receiving game over a three-game stretch, as those four did this year (games two through four) ... six true freshmen have played for the UW this season: DL Jayvon Parker, CB Jayvion Green, PK Grady Gross, WR Denzel Boston, S Tristan Dunn & EDGE Lance Holtzclaw ... the Husky roster includes 31 newcomers in 2022; here's a breakdown: 20 freshmen, two junior college transfers, and nine four-year college transfers ... of the 115 players on the roster, 55 are listed as freshmen (17) or redshirt freshmen (38), with an additional 28 sophomores ... that means that 83 of 115 players (72 percent) have three or more years of remaining eligibility entering the 2022 season ... UW has 12 players who are in their final year of eligibility in 2022.
TELEVISION: The Washington-Arizona State game will air on Pac-12 Network, with J.B. Long and Lincoln Kennedy calling the action. Fans with the proper subscription can also watch at Pac-12.com/live.
RADIO: All Washington football games will air on the Washington Sports Network from Learfield, with Tony Castricone (play by play), former Husky tight end Cameron Cleeland (analyst) and former UW basketball player Elise Woodward (sidelines) on the call. Radio coverage begins four hours before kickoff on the network's flagship station – Seattle's SportsRadio KJR 93.3 FM – with "Husky Gameday" live from The Zone for Husky home games. Statewide coverage on the 12-station Washington Sports Network begins two hours before kickoff. The entire broadcast is available worldwide on the Huskies Gameday mobile app and the Varsity app. The UW broadcast of this game will also air on SiriusXM channel 98. Additionally, the Husky Football Coaches Show airs each Wednesday during the season (starting Aug. 24), at 6:00 p.m. PT.
HUSKIES vs. DEVILS HISTORY: Arizona State leads the all-time series against the Huskies, 20-17. At one point, the UW led the series 15-8, but ASU has had the better of it in recent years, winning 12 of the last 14.
Last year, the Huskies took the early lead, but ASU scored 21 in the fourth quarter to win, 35-30. Before 2021, the two teams hadn't met since 2018, a 27-20 Husky win at Husky Stadium in both teams' fourth game of the season. Husky QB Jake Browning was an efficient 15-for-22 for 202 yards and three touchdowns, while the UW defense held ASU to 268 yards of total offense.
In 2017 in Tempe, the Devils handed the Huskies a 13-7 loss, but the season before that in Seattle, Washington beat Arizona State, 44-18, in the UW's final home game of the season, breaking the Sun Devils' 10-game win streak in the series.
Washington first met the Devils in 1975. That '75 game marked the only time that the two teams ever played one another prior to the Sun Devils joining the Pac-10 Conference before the 1978 season. The Huskies lost that first-ever meeting at Tempe in 1975, 35-12, but routed the 12th-ranked Devils in the next matchup, winning 41-7 at Husky Stadium in 1978.
Some of the Huskies' most memorable games in modern history have come vs. ASU. In the 1995 season-opener, tailback Rashaan Shehee hit receiver Fred Coleman with a 30-yard TD pass late in the fourth quarter to give Washington a 23-20 win. The following year at Tempe, Washington trailed 42-21 before backup QB Brock Huard came on to lead the Huskies to three fourth-quarter TDs, but Robert Nycz kicked a 38-yard field goal with 0:02 left to win, 45-42.
In 1998 at Sun Devil Stadium, the Huskies pulled off the "Miracle in the Desert" as Huard hit tight end Reggie Davis with a 63-yard pass on fourth-and-17 with 0:28 left in the game to pull out a 42-38 Washington win. In 2001, the Huskies capped a seven-minute, 12-second drive with a 30-yard field goal with no time remaining to edge the Devils, 33-31.
100-YARD RECEIVERS: Washington has already had four different receivers record a 100-yard game this season, and it happened over the span of just three games – games two, three and four vs. Portland State (Jalen McMillan, 127; Giles Jackson, 105), Michigan State (Ja'Lynn Polk, 153) and Stanford (Rome Odunze, 161 ... Odunze also had 116 at UCLA). Including this season, only 19 times in UW history have the Huskies had four, 100-yard receiving games over the course of a single season, but in 15 of those cases, those performances were by three or fewer different players. Only four times in UW history have four different players posted a 100-yard receiving game in a single season. Among those four years (1949, 2001, 2002 and 2011), on only one occasion did four different players record a 100-yard game over a three game stretch, in the middle of the 2001 season. They were:
Reggie Williams, 101, vs. USC (game 4)
Todd Elstrom, 112, vs. UCLA (game 5)
Paul Arnold, 138, vs. Arizona (game 6)
Patrick Reddick, 102, vs. Arizona (game 6)
EXPERIENCE AND YOUTH: Thanks in part to the extended eligibility that resulted from the pandemic, Washington's 2021 roster is remarkable for both its youth and its experience, all at once. The roster includes 18 individuals who have started at least one game on offense, and another 18 on defense. All totaled, those 35 players (one of them, Alex Cook, has started on offense and defense) have started 248 games (147 on offense, 101 on defense). And, that doesn account for the handful of veteran transfers who were mulit-year starters at their previous school, and also doesn't account for specialists, who are also seasoned starters at their positions.
All that said, the UW roster includes just 12 players in their final year of available eligibility: CB Jordan Perryman, LB Cam Bright, EDGE Jeremiah Martin, S Alex Cook, WR Brennan Holmes, PK Peyton Henry, OL Jaxson Kirkland, OL Henry Bainivalu, OL Corey Luciano, P Kevin Ryan, LB Kristopher Moll and RB Wayne Taulapapa. Of the 114 players on the current roster, 55 are listed as freshmen (17) or redshirt freshmen (38), while 27 more are sophomores. That means that 82 of 114 players (72 percent) have three or more years of eligibility remaining, entering the 2022 season.
THE PAC-12: Prior to the 2011 season, the Pac-10 Conference added Utah and Colorado to expand to the Pac-12. Washington, which along with California is one of two schools who have been in the conference since its founding in 1915, plays in the Pac-12 North, along with the other three Northwest schools (Oregon, OSU, WSU) and Stanford and Cal. Under the current system, each school plays all five division rivals, plus four of six teams in the other division each season. The first two seasons, the Huskies did not face UCLA or Arizona State. In 2013 and 14, the Huskies didn't play Utah or USC. In 2015 in 2016, neither UCLA nor Colorado were on the UW schedule, while the Huskies didn't face USC and Arizona in 2017 or 2018. The 2019 season marked the start of a new cycle, moving the rotation back to where it started. Therefore, the Huskies 2019 and 2020 scheduled did not include UCLA and Arizona State. In 2021 and 2002, Washington are not scheduled to play USC and Utah.
HUSKY STADIUM RENOVATION: Husky Stadium underwent a major renovation over from Nov., 2011, through Aug., 2013, as the entire lower bowl and south upper deck were demolished and replaced. The new facility features a new, state-of-the-art football operations center (weight room, training room, locker room, meeting rooms, coaches' offices) in the west end, much more premium seating options and a new playing surface. Husky Stadium had featured a track up until 2011, so seats that were once far from the field, particularly in the west end, are much closer to the action. UW is 47-16 at home since the re-opening of Husky Stadium.
ALASKA AIRLINES FIELD AT HUSKY STADIUM: The Oregon game on Nov. 5, 2011, marked the final game in Husky Stadium prior to major renovations that were completed in summer, 2013. The Huskies re-opened their home field with a 38-6 win over then-No. 19 Boise State on Aug. 31, 2013. The 2021 season marks the 101st season of play in Husky Stadium. Original construction on the facility was completed in 1920 when Washington played one game in the new campus facility. UW's all-time record in Husky Stadium stands at 403-185-21 (.679).
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