Bad as was Washington's 13-7 loss Saturday night at Arizona State, the malady lingers on. LT Trey Adams and CB Jordan Miller are done for the season after serious injuries. Adams tore the ACL in his right knee and Miller broke his right ankle in a late-game collision with a teammate.

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Following similar debacles at Arizona State and Cal, respectively, Washington (6-1, 3-1) and Washington Sate (6-1, 3-1) fell out of the Associated Press Top 10 Sunday. The Huskies, a 13-7 loser Saturday to the Sun Devils, dropped from No. 5 to No. 12 while the Cougars, hammered Friday by the Bears 37-3, plunged from No. 8 to No. 15.

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A loss at Arizona State (3-3, 2-1) for Washington (6-1, 3-1) is hardly a shock. The Huskies haven't won in Tempe since 2001, when some of the current players were toddlers. What was shocking Saturday night was one of the nation's most efficient offenses playing so inefficiently, a startling replication of the same case a night earlier in eighth-ranked Washington State's 37-3 loss at Cal.

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Washington is a 17.5-point pick over Arizona State Saturday night in Tempe (7:45 p.m., PT, ESPN) even though the Sun Devils have some compelling data in their favor. According to ESPN's College Football Power Index, the Sun Devils will be the best team the Huskies have faced, having supplanted the previous best, Colorado.

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The good news for Huskies football fans is that Chris Petersen showed neither scars nor stress from his encounters with Tesio, Clemenza, Luca and other members of the family that owns college football. Far as we know, ESPN did not put a horse's head in Petersen's bed.

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Washington (6-0, 3-0) and Washington State (6-0, 3-0) took advantage of lopsided victories and No. 3 Oklahoma's 38-31 loss to unranked Iowa State to advance in the weekly Associated Press college football rankings released Sunday. The Huskies, a 38-7 winner over Cal,  moved up one notch to No. 5 while the Cougars, a 33-10 winner over Oregon on the road, climbed three spots to No. 8.

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The California Bears had some former locals in their entourage that showed up at Husky Stadium Saturday night. Head coach Justin Wilcox and quarterback coach Marques Tuiasosopo were former Huskies coaches, starting QB Ross Bowers was a Bothell High School star, and top defender LB Devante Downs was the same at Mountlake Terrace HS.

Too bad they left town.

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Rarely does Chris Petersen get worked up over conference-policy issues in public. The Huskies coach is, after all, The Bishop, at least according to his Washington State counterpart, Mike Leach, and bishops usually do not speak ill of the church.

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Despite its 42-7 pasting of Oregon State Saturday night, Washington remained No. 6 in the Associated Press college football rankings released Sunday. Washington State, though, made a leap from No. 16 to No. 11 after beating former No. 5 USC 30-27 in Pullman Friday night. The Huskies and Cougars are 5-0 overall and 2-0 in Pac-12 play.

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It wasn't that long ago, 2012 in fact, when Oregon State was 6-0 and ranked 10th in the country. The Huskies gave the Beavers their first loss that year, a 20-17 upset on a Travis Coons field goal with 1:20 left. Since then, their worlds went separate ways.

The sixth-ranked Huskies (5-0, 2-0) these days are busy pursuing summits, and the Beavers are pursuing pond bottoms in the Willamette Valley.

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To the surprise of no one who witnessed the injury, WR Chico McClatcher is done for the season after breaking his left ankle in Washington's 37-10 win over Colorado Saturday in Boulder. Huskies coach Chris Petersen said Monday that surgery is likely.

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Following its 37-10 romp over Colorado Saturday night in Boulder, the University of Washington (4-0) moved up one spot to No. 6 in the weekly Associated Press college football rankings released Sunday. The Huskies, who collected 1,188 votes, also remained  No. 6 in the coaches poll.

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In the Pac-12 Conference championship game in December, the Washington Huskies rushed for 265 yards in a 41-10 triumph over Colorado in Santa Clara, CA. Nine months later, on a wet Saturday evening rematch in Boulder, the Huskies (4-0) rushed for 254 yards in a 37-10 triumph (box) over the Buffaloes (3-1).

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Seahawks WR Doug Baldwin unleashed a barrage of invective Saturday against Donald Trump following the president's remarks Friday in Alabama calling NFL players who protest "sons of bitches" and encouraging fans to walk away from games where protests of the national anthem occur.

He also saw Trump's remarks as an opportunity for the sports world.

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Starting CB Byron Murphy, one of a group of premier young players among the seventh-ranked Huskies, will miss Washington's conference opener Saturday at Colorado and another six weeks with a broken foot, according to a story in the Seattle Times. The UW hasn't confirmed the injury.

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After falling to Washington 41-10 in the Pac-12 championship game in December, Colorado lost a four-year starter at quarterback (Sefo Liufau, the school’s all-time leading passer) and nine starters from a defense that ranked in the top 20 in the FBS. Largely as a result, Pac-12 media in late July picked the 2017 Buffaloes to finish fourth in the South Division behind USC, Utah and UCLA.

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Despite putting a 48-16 pasting on Fresno State Saturday night, the Washington Huskies dropped one spot from No. 6 to No. 7 in the Associated Press college football rankings released Sunday. UW remained at No. 6 in the coaches poll in a week of shakeups involving Pac-12 schools.

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Fall training done, the sixth-ranked Washington Huskies (3-0) soon will have to go to class during the day, then go to work in the afternoon prepping for opponents of a caliber similar to their own. If they take anything from the eggless omelette of the preseason, which concluded Saturday night with a 48-16 win (box) over overwhelmed Fresno State, it is that they have a singular weapon capable of bending foes to his will and skill.

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It's probably one of the more astonishing factoids in college football this season, but because it doesn't reflect well on anyone, it isn't brought up much: The first two seasonal opponents for Fresno State, which plays Washington Saturday at Husky Stadium (6:30 p.m., Pac-12 Networks) were Alabama and, ahem, the University of the Incarnate Word.

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Washington moved up one spot to No. 6 in the Associated Press college football rankings Sunday following Saturday night's 63-7 victory over Montana at Husky Stadium. UW (2-0) collected 1,124 points, 200 fewer than USC, which jumped from sixth to fourth after its 42-24 triumph over No. 14 Stanford, which dropped to 19th.

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