UW Headed To Pasadena For Final Road Game Of 2025

Saturday, November 22

Pasadena, Calif.

7:30 p.m. PT

University of Washington

UCLA

November 17, 2025 | Football

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THE GAME: The Washington football team (7-3 overall, 4-3 Big Ten) takes to the road for the final time this regular season as the Huskies will take on UCLA (3-7, 3-4) Saturday night at the Rose Bowl. The game will kick off at 7:30 p.m. PT and air on NBC television. The game could end up being the final regular-season football game played in the venerable Rose Bowl stadium, as the Bruins have reportedly begun making plans to move to SoFi Stadium (home of the L.A. Rams and Chargers) next season. Washington heads to Pasadena coming off of a 49-13 win over Purdue, while the Bruins suffered a 48-10 loss vs. No. 1 Ohio State last Saturday in Columbus, Ohio. Following the UCLA game, Washington wraps up the regular season Nov. 29, at home vs. rival Oregon.

QUICK HITTERS: Washington heads into the weekend ranked No. 3 in the nation in third-down efficiency, at .538 ... the Huskies are also No. 7 in both team pass efficiency and completion percentage, No. 20 in rushing defense and No. 21 in total defense ... Husky QB Demond Williams Jr. current ranks No. 1 among active FBS quarterbacks in career pass efficiency, with a mark of 169.25, which would rank No. 9 in NCAA-FBS history ... in the 2025 FBS season rankings, Williams is currently No. 6 in completion percentage (.726), No. 6 in pass efficiency (166.3), No. 9 in yards per pass attempt (9.15), and No. 14 in total offense (302.0 yards per game) ... Williams is well ahead of pace to set a new UW record for single-season completion percentage (set last year by Will Rogers III), and is about 15 points ahead of Michael Penix Jr.'s career pass efficiency record ... despite missing all of last game and most of the one before ,.. Husky RB Jonah Coleman, one of six finalists for the Paul Hornung Award, is sixth in the nation in scoring (10.0 points per game); fourth in total touchdowns (15); fifth in rushing touchdowns (13); and No. 14 total points (90) ... Coleman has new career highs for attempts (24 vs. Colo. St.), rushing TDs (5 vs. UC Davis), receptions (8, vs. Maryland), and receiving yards (104 vs. WSU) this year ... Washington has won 25 of its last 26 home games ... the Huskies have outscored opponents in all four quarters this season, including 101-38 in the fourth quarter.

TELEVISION: The UW-UCLA game will air on NBC, with Paul Burmeister, Yogi Roth and Caroline Pineda on the call. For more on how to watch online, go to www.nbcsports.com/now.

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 17-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 Sirius/XM channel 392 (app). Additionally, the Husky Football Coach's Show airs each game-week Monday during the season at 6:00 p.m. PT, live from JOEY Kitchen in University Village.

GRADUATES: A total of 12 Huskies head into the 2025 season already having earned their undergraduate degree, whether from UW or from another university before transferring to UW. Here's the list: CJ Christian (S), Zach Durfee (DE), Makell Esteen (S), Geirean Hatchett (OL), Milton Hopkins (DE), Deshawn Lynch (DL), Dyson McCutcheon (S), Quentin Moore (TE), Simote Pepa (DL), Logan Sagapolu (DL), Anthony Ward (LB), Carver Willis (OL).

ACADEMIC SUCCESS: Following the most recent academic quarter (spring, 2025), the UW football program posted some impressive results. The Husky football team's cumulative GPA for the quarter was 3.27, highest ever in program history. Additionally, 26 football players made the Dean's list, including the following 22 current team members: Xe'Ree Alexanders, Deven Bryant, Jonah Coleman, Elinneus Davis, Decker DeGraaf, Kade Eldridge, Jonathan Epperson Jr., Omari Evans, Luke Gayton, Zachary Henning, Luke Luchini, Jacob Manu, Dyson McCutcheon, Paul Mencke Jr., John Mills, Ephesians Prysock, Jack Shaffer, Austin Simmons, Anterio Thompson, Rainen Vines-Bright, Beck Walker and Demond Williams Jr.

IN THE CFP ERA: The era of the four-team College Football Playoff is gone, but that 10-season stretch (2014-2023) is instructive in terms of illustrating the teams that operated at the top level of the sport during that timespan, and Washington is one of those teams. Over that 10-year stretch, only 15 different programs earned a berth in the CFP semifinals, and only eight reached the tournament more than once. With two CPF berths in the four-team era (2016 and 2023), Washington is one of those eight. Only six teams made more than two appearances: Alabama (8), Clemson (6), Ohio State (5), Oklahoma (4), Georgia (3) and Michigan (3). For what it's worth, six more teams made their CFP debut in the 12-team bracket in 2024, but UW remains one of (now) 10 teams to have appeared in the CFP more than once, when counting the 2024 data.

B1G TIME: As has been well documented over the last couple of years, Washington officially joined the Big Ten Conference ahead of the 2024-25 school year, effective on Aug. 2, 2024. The Huskies were joined be fellow former Pac-12 programs Oregon, UCLA and USC in making the move to the B1G, which now includes 18 schools. Washington was one of four founding members of the Pacific Coast Conference (along with Cal, Oregon and Oregon State), and, along with Cal, was one of just two teams that were a part of that league (which changed names to the AAWU, Pac-8, Pac-10 and Pac-12) for the entirety of its full-fledged existence from 1915 to 2024.

FUTURE SCHEDULES: In October, 2023, the Big Ten revealed 18 football teams' home and away, conference opponents for the next for the following five seasons (2024-28). Here are the UW's home and road, Big Ten games, for the coming three years:

2026: home – Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Penn State; road – Michigan State, Nebraska, Oregon, Purdue, USC
2027: home – Maryland, Michigan State, Nebraska, Oregon, USC; road – Minnesota, Northwestern, Penn State, Rutgers
2028: home – Michigan, Northwestern, UCLA, Wisconsin; road – Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio State, Oregon

Huskies vs. Bruins History: UCLA enjoys a nine-game edge in the series, with 42 wins, 33 losses and two ties in 77 all-time games against Washington. The Bruins have taken that lead relatively recently, having won 15 of the last 21, with many recent games having been comebacks.

Last season in Seattle, UW beat the Bruins, 31-19, in the regular season's penultimate game. Freshman QB Demond Williams Jr. came on in the middle of the third quarter with UW up, 14-13, and led the Huskies to the win, completing 7-of-8 passes for 67 yards and a TD. Williams led his team to 17 straight points before a late Bruins TD narrowed the margin. In 2022, Washington's loss at UCLA was one of just two defeats that season. Michael Penix passed for 345 yards and four scores, but the Bruins got 315 yards and three TDs from Dorian Thompson-Robinson, as well as 124 rushing yards from Zach Charbonnet in a 40-32 win. A year prior in Seattle, the Huskies rallied from 17-3 down to tied the score, but the Bruins broke the 17-17 tie with a touchdown pass with 8:19 to go, then intercepted a UW pass and ran out the last 4:50 to earn a 24-17 win.

Prior to 2022, the Huskies and Bruins last met in Pasadena in 2018, when the Huskies won, 31-24, behind 116 rushing yards and two TDs from Myles Gaskin, as well as 265 yards and a TD passing, along with a rushing TD, from Jake Browning. In 2017, the Huskies won, 44-23, behind 169 rush yards from Gaskin and 94 more from Lavon Coleman. Prior to 2017, the most recent UW-UCLA game was in 2014, when the Bruins racked up 476 yards in a 44-30 win. The year prior in Pasadena, UCLA held on for a 41-31 win despite the Huskies out-gaining the Bruins in total offense. Cyler Miles came off the bench for injured starter Keith Price and threw for 149 yards and two scores while UCLA's Myles Jack rushed for four touchdowns.

The 2010 game was a rare Thursday night contest in Seattle, with the Huskies beating the Bruins, 24-7, as UCLA was held off the scoreboard after the first quarter. Chris Polk rushed for 138 yards and Jesse Callier added 107 in what was mostly a defensive game (UW out-gained UCLA 321 to 163 yards). In 2009 in Pasadena, the Bruins held off the Huskies' comeback attempt for a 24-23 victory. In 2008, UCLA pulled away late for a 27-7 win. But in 2007 in Pasadena, the Bruins beat the Huskies, 44-31, in a game that featured 41 combined points scored in the fourth quarter after a 10-10 tie at the half. The Huskies got the win in 2006 in Seattle, coming back from 16-0 behind to win, 29-19. In 2005, the Bruins needed a fourth-quarter comeback to secure a 21-17 win as the Huskies led 10-0 at half and 17-7 after three quarters. In 2004 in Seattle, Maurice Drew ran for 322 yards and five touchdowns as the Bruins came back from a 24-7 deficit to win, 37-31.

In 2003 at the Rose Bowl, 18th-ranked Washington built a 16-7 halftime lead, but the Bruins stormed back to win going away, 46-16. UCLA's 39 second-half points were the most ever against a Husky team in a second half. In 2002, the Bruins parlayed a 24-14 halftime lead into a 34-24 win. In 2001, the Bruins won, 35-13, as tailback DeShaun Foster rushed for 301 yards in a game the Huskies played without injured starting quarterback Cody Pickett (the only game Pickett missed after separating his right shoulder the previous week vs. USC).

In 2000, with a 35-28 win, Washington broke the Bruins' three-game winning streak in the series. UCLA had won games in 1997, 1998 and 1999 to take the series advantage, which, prior to the '97 meeting was tied at 27-27-2. In 12 of the last 17 meetings (all but 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2007) between Washington and UCLA, one or both of the teams has been ranked. Going by ranking alone, the Bruins managed to upset the Huskies in four of those games – most notably the 1990 loss at Husky Stadium that knocked aside the UW's national title hopes. In that '90 game, the unranked Bruins handed No. 2 Washington a 25-22 loss. In the next meeting in 1993, 22nd-ranked UCLA beat the 12th-ranked Dawgs, 39-25. Prior to 2004, the most recent "upset" was in 1999, when an unranked UCLA team beat No. 22 Washington, 33-20. The UW-UCLA series first got underway in 1932, when the Huskies posted the first of four straight shutouts against the Bruins. UCLA got its first win in the series in 1938 with a 13-0 win in Los Angeles.

DEMOND'S BIG DAY: UW quarterback Demond Williams Jr. turned in a career performance in Washington's 38-19 win over Rutgers on Fri., Oct. 10, passing for 402 yards while rushing for 138. In doing so, he became the first Husky, second Big Ten player and 16th QB in NCAA-FBS history to pass for 400-plus yards and rush for 100 or more in a game. His 138 rushing yards were fourth-most ever by a Husky quarterback (his was just the 12th 100-yard rushing performance by a QB in UW history), and his 538 yards of total offense broke Michael Penix's record of 529, set in 2022 vs. Arizona (516 passing, 13 rushing). His 402 passing yards were 15th-most in UW single-game history.

ROSTER TURNOVER: Like at a lot of programs in this day and age of college football, Washington's roster has seen a good deal of turnover in the last few years, unsurprisingly, given that UW has had four head coaches in seven years. However, in terms of class years, the 2025 Husky football roster is relatively balanced. At the start of the season, UW's 103-man roster includes 29 true freshmen, 15 redshirt freshmen, 19 sophomores, 18 juniors, and 22 seniors. However, taking into consideration how many years players have been at UW provides a different picture, as 77 of the 103 are playing their first (47) or second (30) at Washington in 2025. UW's roster also includes 14 third-year Huskies, seven fourth-year (including Anthony Ward, who spent two years at UW before going to Arizona for two seasons), four fifth-year (including Geirean Hatchett, who spent last season at Oklahoma), and one sixth-year roster member (Makell Esteen, whose first year at UW was 2020).

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 2024 season marks the 104th 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 423-186-21 (.688). Washington is 68-17 (.800) in home games since the stadium re-opened in 2013.