Last time UW faced a team ranked among the NCAA’s top-10 offenses was Oct. 30 at Stanford, and the Huskies yielded 65 points. Baylor is ranked No. 6 nationally.
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Now that he has been cut loose by the Oklahoma Thunder, the 5-foot-9 former Washington Huskies star is shopping for his fourth NBA team.
In order to win the Alamo Bowl, the Huskies will have to solve Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III of Baylor University, who threw 36 TDs and only six interceptions in 2011.
Washington has played against a Heisman Trophy winner 13 times and has two wins win to show for it, in 1962 and 1981. UW faces 2011 recipient Robert Griffin III in the Alamo Bowl.
After an absence of eight years, the Huskies returned a bowl game last year (Holiday), beating Nebraska. Washington takes on Baylor in this year’s Alamo Bowl in San Antonio.
The Seahawks had a chance to knock off the San Francisco 49ers, but a late strip of QB Tarvaris Jackson will keep Seattle out of the 2011 NFL playoffs.
Washington’s 21-20, last-minute win over Maryland in the 1982 Aloha Bowl is noted for producing the best passing and receiving performances in UW bowl history.
Washington played Baylor four times, the Huskies winning only in 1964. The Alamo Bowl will mark the first time the teams have met since early in the 1965 season.
Washington proved it can handle at least one lightweight, crushing Cal State Northridge 74-51; now they move to the heavyweight division.
The Seahawks have a chance to go 7-1 in the second half, a feat accomplished by only one other Seattle team — the 2005 club that played in Super Bowl XL.