The Seahawks take a 22-8 record, the highest winning percentage in the history of the event, into their Monday Night game against the Buffalo Bills at the Clink.
Author: Steve Rudman
Steve Rudman
Steve began his journalistic career in an era in which social networking mainly occurred in saloons. In the years since, he has been a reporter and columnist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), a magazine founder and editor (The National Sports Review), the Director of Research at ESPN (once had the chore of looking up the history of rain delays in major league baseball), a radio talk show host (fired by KIRO because stupid people need radio stations, too, according to the program director), and the producer of a syndicated sports statistical feature (titled Wow!Stats), distributed by Universal Press Syndicate (quick, name three countries in which athletes are eaten when they fail to perform). He wrote (with Karen Chave) 100 Years of Husky Football, Who The Hell is Bob? (one of Seattles more remarkable people) and collaborated with Art Thiel (Sports Press Northwest) and Mike Gastineau (KJR-AM) on The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a ribald compendium of Seattle sports exotica that should be made into a movie (Brad Pitt playing Steve). He gained everlasting infamy in 1985 (at least in Corvallis, Ore.), when, in a column in the Post-Intelligencer, he called the Oregon State Beavers The Barney Fife of College Football, then sat stupefied as the 37-point underdog Beavers cast aside a 28-year slump and beat the Huskies. As of this writing, that game (which resulted in an official, Oregon State-issued game ball for Steve) still generates 314,000 Google pages, most of them from unenlightened (and presumably salt pillar-licking) OSU fans. Steve has yet to issue an apology on Facebook or Twitter and has no plans to do so.
The Seahawks are scoring touchdowns on 14.8 percent of their offensive possessions, the lowest mark since Pete Carroll’s 2010 team, which went 7-9, recorded a 13.7 mark.
QB Troy Williams, a former four-star UW football recruit, departed the program a year after Chris Petersen took over and will lead Utah against the Huskies Saturday in Salt Lake City.
In only five games in the NFL since 1940 have two teams played to a tie without scoring a touchdown. Seattle vs. Arizona Sunday night was the first such contest to reach overtime.
Quarterback Keith Price (2011-13) trashed the Washington record books as a sophomore in 2011. Now another sophomore, Jake Browning, is trashing the marks set by Price.
The Seahawks have played 633 regular-season games in franchise history, and won only three times when they allowed the opposing quarterback to throw three TDs in one quarter.
Matt Ryan, a quarterback Pete Carroll says “is on fire,” leads the NFL in passing yards, average yards per game and passer rating as he prepares to face the Seahawks Sunday.
Washington has lost 12 consecutive times to the Oregon Ducks, dating to 2004. Finally, the Huskies, No. 5 in the Associated Press poll, have a legitimate shot at a win.
Seahawks’ TE Jimmy Graham answered critics that he doesn’t fit into Seattle’s offense Sunday against the Jets with his second consecutive 100-yard receiving game.
Washington and Stanford have met as ranked teams — never as Top 10s — seven times since the Associated Press began its poll in 1936. UW is 5-2 in those games.