No. 24 Dawgs To Make First Trip To Madison Since 1968

Saturday, November 8

Madison, Wis.

1:30 p.m. PT

University of Washington

Wisconsin

College Park, Maryland. - October 04: at SECU Stadium on October 04, 2025 in College Park, Maryland. (Tim Nwachukwu for UW Athletics for UW Athletics)

Photo by: Tim Nwachukwu for UW Athletics

November 03, 2025 | Football

Full UW Notes (PDF)

THE GAME: The Washington football team (6-2 overall, 3-2 Big Ten) makes its first trip to Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wis., in 57 years as the Huskies take on Wisconsin (2-6, 0-6) Saturday at 3:30 p.m. CT/1:30 p.m. PT. The game will air on Big Ten Network. For the first time in 2025, the Huskies are ranked in the AP Top 25, at No. 24. They're one spot out in the coaches' poll. The Badgers are the fifth conference foe the Huskies have faced this year coming off of a bye week, though for the first time, UW also had a week off. UW and UW have faced one another just four times ever, and just once in Madison, in 1968. After the trip to America's Dairyland, the Dawgs return home to face Purdue Nov. 15. From there, the regular season wraps up with a trip to UCLA (Nov. 22) and a home game vs. rival Oregon (Nov. 29).

QUICK HITTERS: Husky RB Jonah Coleman leads the nation in scoring (11.3 points per game) and total touchdowns (15); is second in rushing touchdowns (13); and four total points (90) ... Coleman also ranks No. 10 in all-purpose yards ... 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 ... Husky QB Demond Williams Jr. is currently No. 2 in the nation in completion percentage and No. 8 in pass efficiency ... Williams is currently the FBS active career leader in pass efficiency (172.17), which would rank No. 6 in NCAA-FBS history ... Washington won 24-20 Oct. 4 at Maryland, despite trailing 20-0 ... it was the seventh 20-point comeback in UW history and the first on the road since the 1993, 24-23 win at California ... Washington has outscored opponents 94-28 in the fourth quarter this season ... only three of eight UW opponents has scored in the final quarter this year ... Washington ranks No. 2 in the nation in third-down conversions and No. 6 in team passing efficiency ... the Huskies are also No. 19 in rushing defense ... Washington's last nine true road games have been announced sellouts ... the current UW roster includes players from 19 different states, as well as in Australia and Canada.

TELEVISION: The UW-Illinois game will air on Big Ten Network, with Rhett Lewis, Yogi Roth and Dannie Rodgers on the call. For more on how to watch online, go to www.bigten.org/btn/watch-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 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 389 (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. BADGERS HISTORY: Washington has a surprisingly brief history vs. Wisconsin, as compared to many of the longtime Big Ten teams, most of which had been common, non-conference opponents over the year. The Huskies and Badgers have faced one another just four times, with Washington winning all four – one in a Rose Bowl, two in Seattle and one in Madison. The Huskies and Badgers did have a home-and-home scheduled for 2017-18, but it was canceled after the Big Ten moved to a nine-game conference schedule. Here's a look at those four games:

#8 Washington 44, #6 Wisconsin 8
Jan. 1, 1960, Rose Bowl, Pasadena
The first-ever Washington-Wisconsin game didn't come until the 1960 Rose Bowl game, at the end of the 1959 season. The Huskies, under third-year head coach Jim Owens, had gone 9-1, their lone loss coming in game five, at home vs. No. 7 USC. A selection committee chose the Huskies from among three teams with 3-1-0 records in the newly formed AAWU/Big 5. The game was, surprisingly, a one-sided affair as Washington got a Don McKeta run, and both a field goal and a punt return for a touchdown from George Fleming, in the first quarter to take a 17-0 lead. Wisconsin got a score in the second quarter, on a Tom Wiesner run (and a two-point PAT), but Husky QB Bob Schloredt hit Lee Folkins with a 23-yard TD pass before halftime. Washington added three more scores in the second half to wrap up a 44-8 win. Fleming and Schloredt were named co-MVPs. The Husky win broke a streak of six straight Rose Bowl wins by the Big Ten, which had also won 12 of the last 13.

Washington 17, Wisconsin 0
Sept. 23, 1967, Husky Stadium, Seattle
After a season-opening, home loss to Nebraska, Washington welcomed Wisconsin for game two in 1967, in what was the Badgers' first game of the season, their first under new coach John Coatta. Washington won the game in a fashion typical of the day, behind a strong rushing attack and a stout defense. Washington rushed for 230 yards while the Badgers were held to minus-26, a UW record at the time. Washington was led by QB Tom Manke, a sophomore from the tiny town of Harrington, Wash., who rushed for a team-high 88 yards, while completing 4-fo-6 passes for 68 yards. Don Martin opened the scoring with a 37-yard field goal on the game's opening drive. On the final play of the first half, Manke hit Harrison Wood with a 44-yard TD pass. Early in the third, Manke rushed for an 11-yard score to cap the scoring. Wisconsin QB Don Boyajian, who was charged with minus-48 rush yards, completed 10-of-16 passes for 112 yards to lead the Badgers.

Washington 21, Wisconsin 17
Sept. 28, 1968, Camp Randall Stadium, Madison
After a 35-35 home tie with Rice to open the year, the 1968 Huskies traveled to Madison in week two, earning a 21-17 win over the Badgers. After a scoreless first quarter, Washington's Bo Cornell scored on a one-yard run in the second. Early in the third, Harvy Blanks added to the Husky lead with a 66-yard punt return and an eight-yard run, making it 21-0. Badgers fullback Stu Voigt scored on runs in the third and fourth quarters, and Wisconsin got a field goal to cut it to 21-17, but the last four Badgers drives ended in Husky interceptions – two each from NCAA record holder Al Worley (who had 14 that season) and Tom Verti. The Huskies were led by Blanks, who also had an 83-yard kickoff return (non-scoring) and halfback Carl Wojciechowski, who rushed for 122 years.

#2 Washington 27, Wisconsin 10
Sept. 12, 1992, Husky Stadium, Seattle
After opening the season with a 31-7 win at Arizona State, the 1991 National Champions played their first home game of 1992 against Wisconsin at sold-out Husky Stadium. It was the first game of the season for Coach Barry Alvarez' Badgers. The Huskies won the game, 27-10, behind a solid performance from QBs Billy Joe Hobert and Mark Brunell, and a defense that limited Wisconsin to nine first downs. Hobert hit Puyallup High classmate Joe Kralik with an 18-yard TD pass to begin the scoring, but the visitors tied it thanks to a TD pass from Jay Macias to Tim Ware. Hobert's 60-yard TD run late in the first gave Washington a 14-7 lead the Dawgs would never surrender. Travis Hanson made two field goals in the second quarter and Jay Barry ran for a score in the third to extend the lead before a Badgers field goal and a scoreless final quarter. It was UW's 16th straight win in a streak that would grow to 22 games.

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 Washington 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 422-186-21 (.688). Washington is 67-17 (.798) in home games since the stadium re-opened in 2013.