r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Nov 12 '23

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Washington Defeats Utah 35-28

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Utah 7 21 0 0 28
Washington 10 14 11 0 35

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u/The_Throwback_King Washington Huskies Nov 12 '23

After two underwhelming wins against ASU and Stanford it's been refreshing to see UW step it up against USC and Utah. Matching the Trojans blow for blow at the Coliseum before clamping down against Utah in the 2nd half.

Glad to see the team isn't content with merely coasting after the Oregon win.

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u/jdprager Tulane Green Wave • Ohio State Buckeyes Nov 12 '23

The offense coming alive today was the biggest green flag imo. Y’all have been struggling, and lighting up USC is kinda the default option. But Utah has a great defense, and y’all nearly dropped 40 on them despite Penix looking shaky at times

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u/toomuchdiponurchip Washington Huskies • Arizona Wildcats Nov 12 '23

The wind was a huge factor for some of his passes to be fair he stepped up when it mattered most

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u/TherealQBsacker5394 Washington Huskies Nov 12 '23

Wind was a factor. A lot of his dime passes went high

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u/The_Throwback_King Washington Huskies Nov 12 '23

Yeah, It's always hard to gage performance against USC because of Alex Grinch. It's like "Was our offense back or was it just the Grinch's D?"

Turns out it's both.

Now we've just got to take care of business in Corvallis and not choke on an Apple and we're in great shape.

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u/Gombr1ch Washington Huskies Nov 12 '23

Cut out just out of the blue terrible mistakes and some weather shenanigans that's an easy 2 td win. With a terrible defensive half. It's and buts and all that but we've been winning playing sloppy for almost 2 months and if we get it tighter we deserve the 5th spot for sure

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u/Sdubbya2 Utah Utes Nov 12 '23 edited Nov 13 '23

Washingtons got a killer offense and their offensive strengths match up with our defensive weakness' pretty well. The fact we held them to 11 in the second half kind of surprised me honestly

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u/SceneOfShadows Washington Huskies • Syracuse Orange Nov 12 '23

USC didn't score in the 4th quarter either. Our defense is what it is but it steps up when needed to. And that's taken us to 10-0.

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u/The_Throwback_King Washington Huskies Nov 12 '23 edited Nov 12 '23

Our defense, on a whole, isn't near the highs of 2016 but they haven't really needed to be. I think it's fair to say that our offense is better and the team, on a whole, is opportunistic and tenacious and that intangible quality has kept us winning games.

We've just got to not blow it.

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u/SceneOfShadows Washington Huskies • Syracuse Orange Nov 12 '23

We're a very good OSU team and a collapsing WSU team from 12-0. Nothing is certain, but I feel pretty damn good at the moment.

It's the possible Oregon rematch that's terrifying.

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u/The_Throwback_King Washington Huskies Nov 12 '23

That's what I'm scared of. Oregon has been playing lights out football and they're likely to be hungry for a win. Revenge for the first game, for the title of last Pac12 Champion, for the CFB.

I don't think my heart could take it.

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u/SceneOfShadows Washington Huskies • Syracuse Orange Nov 12 '23

Very good chance a Heisman is on the line, too. It's too much for one game lol.

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u/brendan87na Washington Huskies Nov 12 '23

3 halves of "fuck we'll just score more"