The Washington Huskies dropped a spot, to 10th, in this week's Associated Press college football poll released Monday despite -- or perhaps because of -- their 35-28 overtime victory over the Arizona Wildcats Saturday night in Tucson. UW (4-0) will host No. 7 Stanford (3-0) Friday at 6 p.m. at Husky Stadium -- the first meeting of Top 10 teams in the facility since the third week of the 1997 season.

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After almost a month of dining on cupcakes, the Huskies had a hard time with a dinner of cactus Saturday night in Tucson.

Two missed field goals, a red-zone interception and four sacks of QB Jake Browning nearly wiped out months of high expectations. But due largely to an astonishing game from junior RB Lavon Coleman, ninth-ranked Washington (4-0) prevailed 35-28 in overtime over an Arizona team that nearly trap-doored the Huskies again.

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Tampa Bay TE Austin-Seferian Jenkins, a former University of Washington star, was arrested in Tampa on suspicion of driving while under the influence, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release Friday morning. It was his second DUI arrest following one as a Husky in 2013.

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Pageantry and ceremony ruled the day. The band was loud, smoke bombs spewed, and the Huskies went through all the rituals associated with a ceremonial weekend at Husky Stadium. The other element that was ceremonial? The game. The No. 8 Huskies, to the surprise of no one, dominated Portland State of the FCS Big Sky Conference 41-3 to cap a non-conference schedule with the toughness of pre-chewed tapioca.

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It's been 111 years since Idaho beat Washington upon the collegiate gridiron --  8-0 in Moscow in 1905 -- but the sting of that defeat clearly has lingered because the Huskies have a 36-2-2 series lead following the 59-14 unpleasantness at sun-soaked Husky Stadium Saturday afternoon (box).

That is a weapons-grade grudge.

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Washington's 48-13 rout of Rutgers Saturday played favorably with voters in both major college football polls Monday. The Huskies surged in the Associated Press rankings from 14th to No. 8, and seven spots in the coaches poll, from 18th to No. 11. The AP ranking is Washington's highest in that poll since a No. 8 placement in Week 9 of the 2001 season.

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Former University of Washington head football coach Steve Sarkisian (2009-13), fired as USC's head man in October after an embarrassing public display of intoxication, is joining Alabama's staff as a special offensive assistant, according to head coach Nick Saban.

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As a sophomore in 2014, John Ross took it to the house on plays of 91, 20, 55, 75, 86, 100 and 96 yards, an average of 75 yards per touchdown play. Then he hurt his right knee in spring ball. The day after he learned he would need surgery to fix a torn ACL, the Huskies wide receiver entered on his smartphone calendar for Sept. 3, 2016 an image of the mascot of the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers University.

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College football openers always are rich in ambiguities because the annual turnover in players creates mystery, and the holdovers mature at different rates. When the preseason No. 14 Huskies host Rutgers Saturday (11 a.m., Pac-12 Networks) in Washington's opener at Husky Stadium, one of the most compelling intrigues -- how much QB Jake Browning has developed for his sophomore season -- will begin to unfold.

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During the final session of Pac-12 Media Days  in Los Angeles, conference scribes/throats picked the Washington Huskies to finish second in the North Division. For the first time in 56 years, they also chose Stanford as the favorite to win the overall league title over projected South Division winner UCLA. The poll always provides time-filling talk-show fodder, but is wrong almost as often as it is right, especially lately.

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Despite starting out ranked 14th in the country in the Associated Press poll, following numerous preseason predictions of a potential North Division Pac-12 championship, coach Chris Petersen felt compelled to sell Washington fans on the necessity of coming out to the season opener against Rutgers at 11 a.m. Saturday at Husky Stadium.

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For a team that went 7-6 last year and failed to crack the Top 25 in the season-ending polls, the Washington Huskies are drawing a lot of positive attention. After coming in at No. 18 in the the preseason USA Today Coaches Poll released last week, UW starts the 2016 season at a lofty No. 14 in the Associated Press poll.

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Junior safety Budda Baker is back for the Huskies -- bigger, stronger, and looking to help the University of Washington continue its recent tradition of providing the Pac-12 Conference's most annoying defense.

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For a guy who seems on the edge of a breakthrough for a college football program that was pathetically hanging on to a Don James crush nearly 25 years done, Chris Petersen seemed, well, on edge.

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George Briggs, who served as University of Washington athletic director from 1956-59 and hired College Hall of Fame football coaches Darrell Royal (1956) and Jim Owens (1957-74) in back-to-back years, died at 91. Briggs passed away July 16 at his home in Seattle, near the U-District, where he lived for many years.

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Chris Petersen's Washington Huskies were picked to finish second in the North Division in the Pac-12 Conference media poll released Thursday in Los Angeles. A panel of 33 writers and broadcasters who regularly cover the conference awarded UW 163 points, including eight first-place votes. Four media members also selected the Huskies as their choice to win the championship game.

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The Pac-12 Conference Wednesday announced game times and television broadcast information for five University of Washington football games, including four of seven home games as well as the 2016 Apple Cup, scheduled for Nov. 25 at Martin Stadium in Pullman.

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The worst thing about contemporary Pac-12 Conference football -- late Saturday starts for TV -- apparently will get some reduction, but not elimination. The Pac-12 announced Tuesday that presidents and chancellors approved a plan to pursue more starts at 2:30 and 6 p.m. local times, instead of 7 p.m. or later.

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After a national search, the University of Washington stayed in-house, naming Jennifer Cohen Tuesday as the school's new athletic director, replacing Scott Woodward, who abruptly departed four months ago for the same job at Texas A&M. Cohen served as interim athletic director since, and will officially assume her new duties June 1.

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Seven individuals, led by former basketball/football star Nate Robinson and Olympic gold medal coxswain Mary Whipple, along the 1984 University of Washington football team, were named Tuesday to the Husky Hall of Fame. The 2016 class will be inducted during a campus ceremony Oct. 22.

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