UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 2011 HUSKY FOOTBALL www.gohuskies.com Contacts: Jeff Bechthold and Jeremy Cothran • (206) 543-2230 • email: [email protected] & [email protected] 2011 HUSKY SCHEdULE / results WASHINGTON vs. COLORAdO Sept. 3 EASTERN WASH. [ROOT Sports] W, 30-27 Rested dawgs Return Home To Face Buffaloes Sept. 10 HAWAI’I [ROOT Sports] W, 40-32 Sept. 17 at #11 Nebraska [ABC/ESPN] L, 51-38 The Game: The Washington football team (4-1 overall, 2-0 Pac-12), fresh from a week off, returns Sept. 24 CALIFORNIA [FSN] W, 31-23 to Husky Stadium for its first conference meeting with Colorado (1-5 overall, 0-2 Pac-12). The game Oct. 1 at Utah [FSN] W, 31-14 will kick off Saturday at 12:30 p.m. and will air live on ROOT Sports in both the Northwest and Oct. 15 COLORADO [ROOT Sports/FCS-Atl.] 12:30 p.m. Rocky Mountain regions, as well on Fox College Sports (FCS)-Atlantic. The Huskies last played Oct. 22 at Stanford [ABC/ESPN/ESPN2] 5:00 p.m. two Saturdays ago at Utah, winning 31-14 to improve to 2-0 in conference play. Colorado comes to Oct. 29 ARIZONA TBD Seattle off of a loss at Stanford last Saturday. Washington will face that same Cardinal squad the Nov. 5 OREGON TBD following Saturday, Oct. 22, in Palo Alto, a 5:00 p.m. game, before returning home for two straight Nov. 12 at USC [ABC/ESPN or FSN] 12:30 p.m. home dates vs. Arizona (Oct. 29) and Oregon (Nov. 5). Nov. 19 at Oregon State TBD Nov. 26 WSU [at CenturyLink Field] TBD QUICK SNAPS: Even after a bye week, UW quarterback Keith Price remains second in the nation all times Pacific • rankings are AP at time of game with 17 touchdown passes ... only Baylor’s Robert Griffin III has more, with 19 ... Price is tied with three others for second ... 17 TD passes already ranks No. 7 (tied) in UW single-season history 2011 PAC-12 STANdINGS ... if Price were to maintain his current pass efficiency rating of 173.7, he would easily surpass the school record (153.8, Brock Huard, 1997) ... at .683, he’s also well ahead of the UW season NORTH Pac-12 Overall record for completion percentage (.650, Steve Pelluer, 1983) ... Price is seventh in the nation in pass efficiency ... tailback Chris Polk has rushed for 100 yards in four of five games this year and 1. Stanford 3-0 5-0 now has 15 career 100-yard games, tied for second-most in school history (tied with Greg Lewis; 2. Washington 2-0 4-1 record is 17, set by Napoleon Kaufman) ... Polk is second on the UW career rushing yards list with Oregon 2-0 4-1 3,172 yards ... Washington ranks No. 15 in the nation in turnover margin at plus-1.00 per game 4. Washington State 1-1 3-2 (plus-five total) ... that’s good for No. 2 in the Pac-12 ... six true freshmen have played this year for 5. Oregon State 1-2 1-4 the UW: S James Sample, TB Bishop Sankey, TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins, DT Danny Shelton, OLB 6. California 0-2 3-2 John Timu and WR Kasen Williams. SOUTH Pac-12 Overall TELEVISION: The Washington-Colorado game will air live to a regional audience on ROOT Sports 1. Arizona State 3-0 5-1 (both in the Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions) and FCS-Atlantic. Tom Glasgow, Jason Stiles, 2. USC 2-1 4-1 Jen Mueller and Alanna Rizzo will provide the commentary. Additionally, “Huskies All-Access” airs UCLA 2-1 3-3 each Wednesday evening on ROOT Sports. The program is an up-close look at each Husky game, 4. Colorado 0-2 1-5 with features, one-on-one interviews and sideline video. 5. Utah 0-3 2-3 6. Arizona 0-4 1-5 RAdIO: The Washington ISP Sports Network, with its flagship station KJR 950-AM, will carry the live broadcast of every football game on 16 Northwest radio stations. Longtime play-by-play THIS WEEK’S PAC-12 GAMES man Bob Rondeau and color analyst Damon Huard are joined by sideline reporter Elise Woodward. Thurs.: USC at California, 6:00 p.m. (ESPN) Many game broadcasts will also be carried on SiriusXM Satellite Radio and can be heard over the Utah at Pittsburgh, 9:00 a.m. (ESPNU) internet at gohuskies.com. Colorado at Washington, 12:30 p.m. (ROOT/FCS-Atl.) BYU at Oregon State, 1:00 p.m. (BYU-TV/FCS-Pac.) WASHINGTON vs. COLORAdO Stanford at Washington State, 4:30 p.m. (Versus) Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011 • 12:30 p.m. PT Arizona State at Oregon, 7:15 p.m. (ESPN) Radio: 950 KJR-AM and the Washington IMG College Network Television: ROOT Sports (Northwest and Rocky Mountain) and FCS-Atlantic LAST WEEK’S PAC-12 RESULTS Media Schedule for the Week: Oregon 43, California 15 Monday: Press conference, 12 noon Wednesday: Practice: 4:00 p.m. (offensive Oregon State 37, Arizona 27 Founder’s Club players & coaches and Coach Arizona State 35, Utah 14 Practice: 3:15 p.m. (no interviews) Sarkisian interviews after) Stanford 48, Colorado 7 Tuesday: Pac-12 Coaches Teleconference Thursday: Practice: 4:00 p.m. UCLA 28, Washington State 25 10:10 a.m. (Sarkisian: 11:30 a.m.) (Coach Sarkisian after) Practice: 4:00 p.m. (defensive Friday: no media availability players & coaches interviews after) Washington vs. COLORAdO • HUSKY Stadium • OCT. 15, 2011 • 12:30 P.M. PT (ROOT SPORTS) THE HEAd COACH: In a frequently-told tale, Husky football coach Steve Sarki- sian recalls his days as a young assistant traveling to face Washington at Husky MEdIA RESOURCES Stadium. During the drive across Lake Washington, with the iconic home of the MONdAY PRESS CONFERENCE LIVE ON UWTV: This season UWTV, the on-campus Dawgs towering ahead, Sarkisian marveled aloud at the city, the stadium and television station for the University of Washington, will be carrying the weekly football the atmosphere surrounding the UW program. A decade or so later, Sarkisian is press conferences LIVE featuring Husky head coach Steve Sarkisian. UWTV’s coverage will be live and available via satellite for stations wishing to use video clips from the in charge of the Washington football program he was admiring that day. And in presser in their coverage of UW football. The press conferences are Monday at noon. just two years, he has re-established the kind of tough, exciting environment that was then, and is again now, so closely associated with the Husky football. In Broadcast media are also welcome to follow along via satellite. Here are the specs: 2010, Sarkisian’s second season in Seattle, the Huskies made another clear step Galaxy18 at 123 degree W.; Transponder 3 Ku forward. The Dawgs went 7-6 overall and finished third in the Pac-10 Confer- Downlink frequency: 11771.75 MHz or Lband frequency: 1021.75 MHz Downlink Polarity is Vertical ence with a 5-4 record. Then, in the Holiday Bowl, Washington provided one of Encoding MPEG-4 the bowl season’s top games, beating an 18th-ranked Nebraska squad, 19-7. The Modulation DVB-S2 QPSK win over the Cornhuskers was the last of a series of exciting, gutsy victories in FEC (Forward Error Correction) is 3/4 2010. The season included three Husky wins decided on the very last play of the Data Rate: 5.000 Mb/sec; Symbol Rate is 3.360 Ms/sec game (Oregon State, USC and Cal), plus another in which the winning score came Max bandwidth 4.300 MHz inside the final minute (WSU). Sarkisian was introduced as the new head coach Netword ID 1; Video Pid=112 Audio Pid=113 of the Washington football team on Dec. 8, 2008. From the start, Sarkisian made PAC-12 TELECONFERENCE: All 12 Pac-12 coaches are available on a weekly tele- it clear that he didn’t think it would take long to turn the program around and get conference, each Tuesday beginning at 10:00 a.m. Coach Sarkisian takes questions it back to the high level of success that UW football has enjoyed throughout its on the teleconference at 11:30 a.m. (PT) each Tuesday. Contact the Pac-10 office at history. In his first season, 2009, he seemed to prove that he was right. Washing- (925) 932-4411 to obtain the number to join in. ton, which posted a winless season for the first time in school history the year before Sarkisian signed on, surged to a 5-7 record in 2009, an improvement of five GOHUSKIES.COM ALL-ACCESS: Fans can now enjoy live games (football and other sports), features, interviews, press conferences and more, available at gohuskies.com. victories over the previous year. No BCS-conference school in the nation could For more information, go to www.gohuskies.com. boast such improvement in terms of wins in 2009. And, Sarkisian’s Husky squad pulled off that feat against a schedule that included 10 opponents who ended the RAdIO ON THE SiriusXM SATELLITE: Many Pac-12 football games this season season bowl-eligible. Sarkisian came to the UW with a wealth of experience as a will air on SiriusXM Satellite Radio on channels 193-196 and 211-220. Go to www. quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator. His string of success is nearly un- siriusxm.com for more information. precedented as, during his time at USC, he coached two Heisman Trophy winners COACH’S SHOW: The Coach Sarkisian Show, with play-by-play announcer Bob Ron- and oversaw one of the nation’s most consistent and dominant offenses.