Having been snubbed by UCLA coach Jim Mora, a former Huskies walk-on and Seahawks head coach, and former UW assistant Gary Pinkel, head coach for 13 years at Missouri, Washington is turning its attention to Boise State's Chris Petersen and Alabama offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier.

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Missouri coach Gary Pinkel, who served as an assistant under Don James at Washington from 1979-90, Thursday squashed talk about replacing Steve Sarkisian, telling ESPN Radio that he intends to stay with the Tigers, who will play for the SEC Championship Saturday.

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Marques Tuiasosopo will coach the University of Washington football team in its upcoming bowl game, the school said Wednesday.

The Huskies MVP of the 2001 Rose Bowl is in his first year as UW's quarterback's coach, serving the regular season as mentor to fifth-year senior quarterback Keith Price.

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For those who lament the departure of Steve ("Washington is my dream job") Sarkisian to conference rival USC as evidence of the increasingly depraved state of college sports, it is worth recalling that the Huskies benefited from a similar naked grab for cash.

But it was men's basketball. The Huskies won big, and the Cougars lost big. The coach was Marv Harshman. The year was 1972. The point is that the stakes may be higher, but little has changed in college sports. Or in life.

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Steve Sarkisian lied to protect his players. Old and new.

That was his excuse Tuesday for why he told KJR-AM radio early Monday that he hadn't interviewed for, only 'talked' about, the head coaching job at USC.  Hours later, Sarkisian was announced as the successor to USC interim coach Ed Orgeron. By happy hour, Sarkisian was on a jet to Los Angeles.

Tuesday afternoon he called his dishonest answer a mistake.

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Apparently, coaching the Huskies is no longer Jim L. Mora's "dream job," but leveraging the Washington vacancy certainly was a dream come true. Mora not only rebuffed a rumored attempt to replace Steve Sarkisian at Washington, who quit Monday in order to take the USC job, he signed a six-year contract extension Tuesday with the Bruins.

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Steve Sarkisian is headed back home.

Washington quarterback Keith Price and Hau'oli Kikaha aren't bitter about it. The pair of team captains met briefly with the media Monday afternoon outside Husky Stadium after they and the rest of the players met Sarkisian and UW athletics director Scott Woodward for a 45-minute meeting  to formally hear the news.

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From the feedback we've received, it seems that the University of Washington football fan base is less upset that former head coach Steve Sarkisian has decided to bolt to USC than it is excited -- in some cases, agog -- about a possible upgrade. News of Sarkisian's jump to the Southland broke early Monday morning and the Huskies belatedly confirmed it late in the afternoon.

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Washington RB Bishop Sankey was named to the Pac-12 first-team offense and Washington State S Deone Bucannon to the first-team defense, in voting done by conference coaches announced Monday.

UW TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins earned recognition to the second-team offense and DE Hau'oli Kikaha to the second-team defense. Kikaha also earned a spot on the Pac-12 All-Academic first team while Sankey made Pac-12 All-Academic second team.

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A source told ESPN that University of Washington football coach Steve Sarkisian interviewed with USC athletic director Pat Haden over the weekend about the Trojans' head coaching vacancy. Sarkisian completed an 8-4 regular season Friday with a 27-17 victory over Washington State in the Apple Cup.

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Former Lakes High all-state running back Willis Wilson, a three-year walk-on at the  University of Washington who transferred the past summer to the University of Hawaii, apparently drowned Saturday morning in an incident on a beach near Honolulu.

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Despite the various incentives -- full house, Senior Day, reaching eight wins, elevating above a dork-bowl selection, making the Cougars shut the hell up over the past year's Apple Cup -- the Huskies came out Friday as if it were the start of the season instead of the end of it. Even Keith Price, the fifth-year senior playing his final game at Husky Stadium, was haywire.

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Senior quarterback Keith Price, who had a frustrating first half, threw for a touchdown and ran for another in the second, Bishop Sankey set two significant rushing records and the Washington Huskies reached eight victories for the first time since 2001 with a 27-17 victory over Washington State in the 106th Apple Cup Saturday at Husky Stadium.

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GAME: Washington State (6-5 overall, 4-4 Pac-12) at Washington (7-4 overall, 4-4 Pac-12). WHEN: Friday, 12:30 p.m., Husky Stadium. MEETING: 106th (UW leads 67-32-6). COACHES: Mike Leach, Washington State; Steve Sarkisian, Washington. RANKINGS: Neither school ranked. LINE: Washington by 14. TV: FOX. RADIO: KJR-950 AM.

It's likely that the identity of Washington's quarterback for Friday's Apple Cup at Husky Stadium will not be made public until shortly before the 12:30 p.m. kickoff. No matter which -- senior Keith Price, rehabbing a shoulder injury, or Cyler Miles, who threw for 162 yards and a TD in Washington's 69-27 romp over Oregon State -- gets the nod, coach Steve Sarkisian said he will be good with his choice.

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When Washington State's Andrew Furney knocked through a 27-yard field goal in overtime to win the 2012 Apple Cup, WSU students hopped the guardrails and poured onto the field, engulfing players and coaches along the WSU sideline.

Washington running back Bishop Sankey was the first to dash through Martin Stadium's exit tunnel.

"It was like he was going into the lion's den. He boogeyed straight to the locker room," his father, Chris Sankey said Tuesday.

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Washington coach Steve Sarkisian is getting creative with responses to questions about quarterback Keith Price's availability for Friday's Apple Cup against Washington State (12:30 p.m., FOX Channel 13). After Wednesday morning's practice, UW's last in pads before kickoff, Sarkisian practically held a clinic on how to speak without saying much, though he acknowledged that Price "looked really good" splitting reps with backup Cyler Miles.

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PULLMAN -- The Apple Cup makes its biennial pit stop at Husky Stadium Friday afternoon, a cause for celebration by college football fans from Palm Springs to Napa Valley and points beyond in California.

Welcome to the California High School Alumni All-Star Game. When the Cougars and Huskies work off poundage gained via Thanksgiving grubfests, the vast majority of starters and others on the two-deep will be California natives.

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Keith Price always expects to start every game. So it was little surprise Tuesday when the University of Washington quarterback told reporters he anticipates playing in the Apple Cup Friday against Washington State.

"You just feel useless when you're on the sideline. There's nothing you can really do, especially when you're losing," Price said. "It's all good when you're winning, but when you're losing, it's no fun being on the sideline."

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Washington quarterback Keith Price isn't 100 percent healthy (sore shoulder) and Washington coach Steve Sarkisian isn't revealing if the Huskies plan to start Price or backup Cyler Miles at quarterback Friday in the 106th Apple Cup (12:30 p.m., FOX, Channel 13).

"The biggest thing is - it's about our team, and what's best for our team. Cyler's performance gives me a comfort level of knowing I have a very capable guy that can go in and perform and run our offense and command our offense," Sarkisian said Monday.

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