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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 2017 HUSKY FOOTBALL web: www.gohuskies.com • twitter: @UW_Football Contacts: Jeff Bechthold & Brian Tom • emails: [email protected] & [email protected] 2017 HUSKY SCHEDULE / RESULTS #12/11 WASHINGTON vs. UCLA Sept. 1 at Rutgers (FS1) W, 30-14 Dawgs Open Four-Home-Ga-mes-In-Five Stretch vs. Bruins Sept. 9 MONTANA (Pac-12) W, 63-7 Sept. 16 FRESNO STATE (Pac-12) W, 48-16 THE GAME: The Washington football team (6-1 overall, 3-1 Pac-12) returns to action after a week Sept. 23 at Colorado* (FS1) W, 37-10 off as UCLA (4-3, 2-2) visits Husky Stadium for a 12:30 p.m. game this Saturday. The homecoming Sept. 30 at Oregon State* (Pac-12) W, 42-7 contest will air live on ABC television. The Huskies enter the week ranked No. 12 in the AP Top 25 Oct. 7 CALIFORNIA* (ESPN) W, 38-7 and No. 12 in the coaches’ poll. The UW plays four of its final five regular season games at home, Oct. 14 at Arizona State* (ESPN) L, 13-7 starting this week. The only remaining road game is Fri., Nov. 10, at Stanford, sandwiched by UCLA Oct. 28 UCLA* (ABC) 12:30 p.m. this week, Oregon (Nov. 4), Utah (Nov. 18) and WSU (Nov. 25). Nov. 4 OREGON* TBD QUICK SLANTS: The UW is 21-3 over its last 24 games ... the UW hasn’t allowed 30 points in a Nov. 10 at Stanford* (FS1) 7:30 p.m. game since the 2015 Heart of Dallas Bowl (a 44-31 win over Southern Miss), a span of 21 games Nov. 18 UTAH* TBD ... Washington’s Dante Pettis opened the season with a punt return for a touchdown in each of the Nov. 25 WASHINGTON STATE* TBD UW’s three games: 61 yards at Rutgers, 67 yards vs. Montana and 77 yards vs. Fresno State ... with all times are Pacific 8 career TDs on punt returns, he has tied the NCAA record, shared by Wes Welker (Texas Tech) and rankings are AP at time of game Antonio Perkins (Oklahoma) while also tying the NCAA mark for consecutive games with a punt return TD (David Allen, Kansas State, 1998; Ryan Switzer, North Carolina, 2013) ... Pettis currently 2017 PAC-12 STANDINGS leads the nation in punt returns (24.4 ypr) ... seven games into his junior season, Jake Browning currently sits third on the UW career passing yards (7,990) and fourth in career completions (615) NORTH Pac-12 Overall charts ... his 73 career TD passes remain second on the list, behind Keith Price’s 75 ... seven true freshmen have seen action for the UW so far this year: TE Hunter Bryant, TE Jacob Kizer, WR 1. Washington State 4-1 7-1 Ty Jones, TB Salvon Ahmed and DBs Keith Taylor, Brandon McKinney and Elijah Molden ... UW Stanford 4-1 5-2 entered the year with 32 players on the roster who had started at least one game ... four more (LB 3. Washington 3-1 6-1 Ben Burr-Kirven and DBs Jordan Miller, Myles Bryant and Byron Murphy) earned their first starts 4. California 1-4 4-4 at Rutgers, two more (WR Jordan Chin and TE Hunter Bryant) started vs. Fresno State and Austin Oregon 1-4 4-4 Joyner started at Colorado, meaning that 39 different Huskies have started a game ... Washington 6. Oregon State 0-4 1-6 ranks No. 2 in the nation in total defense (236.9 ypg), No. 2 in rushing defense (73.0 ypg), No. 3 in scoring defense (10.2 ppg), No. 6 in passing yards allowed (163.9 ypg), No. 7 in first down defense SOUTH Pac-12 Overall (101), No. 12 in team sacks (3.13 pg) and No. 15 in turnover margin (+1.00 per game) ... UW held 1. USC 4-1 6-2 Cal to 93 total yards and -40 rushing yards, the fifth and third-fewest, respectively, in Husky history. 2. Arizona 3-1 5-2 Arizona State 3-1 4-3 TELEVISION: The UW-UCLA game will air live to a national audience on ABC television (or, in some locations, ESPN2) with Bob Wischusen (play-by-play), former Husky QB Brock Huard (color) 4. UCLA 2-2 4-3 and Allison Williams (sidelines) providing the commentary. 5. Utah 1-3 4-3 6. Colorado 1-4 4-4 RADIO: The Washington IMG College Network, with its flagship station KOMO AM-1000 and FM- 97.7, will carry the live broadcast of every football game on 17 Northwest radio stations. Longtime THIS WEEK’S PAC-12 GAMES play-by-play man Bob Rondeau and color analyst Damon Huard are joined by sideline reporter Elise Thu.: Stanford at Oregon State, 6 p.m. (ESPN) Woodward. The home broadcast of the game will also air on Sirius (83) and XM (83) satellite radio. California at Colorado, 11 a.m. (Pac-12) UCLA at Washington, 12:30 p.m. (ESPN) #12/12 WASHINGTON vs. UCLA Utah at Oregon, 2:45 p.m. (Pac-12) Saturday, October 28, 2017 • 12:30 p.m. PT Washington State at Arizona, 6:30 p.m. (Pac-12) Radio: KOMO AM-1000/FM-97.7 and the Washington IMG College Network; USC at Arizona State, 7:45 p.m. (ESPN) Sirius 83; XM 83 Television: ABC / ESPN2 (reverse mirror) Media Schedule for the Week: LAST WEEK’S PAC-12 RESULTS Monday: Press conference, 11:30 a.m. Wednesday: Interviews: 10:45 a.m. (defensive Arizona State 30, Utah 10 Founder’s Club player & asst. coach interviews after) UCLA 31, Oregon 14 Tuesday: Interviews: 10:45 a.m. (offenseive Thursday: Coach Petersen in old team room Notre Dame 49, USC 14 player & asst. coach interviews after) at approximately 10:40 a.m. Arizona 45, California 44 (2 OT) Pac-12 Coaches Teleconference Friday: No media availability 10:15 a.m. (Petersen: 11:55 a.m.) Washington State 28, Colorado 0 * all times approximate. Arrive early! WASHINGTON vs. UCLA • HUSKY STADIUM • OCT. 28, 2017 • 12:30 P.M. PT (ABC) THE HEAD COACH: When Chris Petersen was hired after the 2013 season, no one knew for sure how long it might take to return the Husky program to the top levels of the college MEDIA RESOURCES football world. It turns out, it took about three years. In 2016, the Huskies had their best MONDAY PRESS CONFERENCE ON GOHUSKIES.COM: Every Monday, head season since 2000 and one of their best ever, winning the Pac-12 Championship, earning coach Chris Petersen will hold his weekly press conference, starting at 11:30 a.m. PT. a spot in the College Football Playoff and finishing ranked No. 4 in the final polls. They did Fans can watch live on gohuskies.com and watch a replay at gohuskies.com/petersen. it with high-achieving, young players across the starting lineup while also succeeding in the classroom at an unprecedented and sustained rate. Petersen, who built a reputation as PAC-12 TELECONFERENCE: All 12 Pac-12 coaches are available on a weekly an offensive innovator who carried the Boise State football program to its highest highs teleconference each Tuesda.. The call begins at 10:15 a.m. PT and Coach Petersen is and had been courted by innumerable programs, was swayed to take on a new challenge on the call at 11:55 a.m. PT. Contact the Pac-12 office for more info. when he agreed to become head coach of the Huskies in December of 2013. Petersen’s “Built for Life” philosophy, on which the program is based, achieved its highest level of RADIO ON SiriusXM: Most Pac-12 games this season will air on SiriusXM. The fruition to date with the successes of the team in 2016. Along with those on-field victo- home broadcast of the UW-UCLA game will air on Sirius 83 and XM 83. ries, the team continued to achieve at never-before-seen levels academically as the team COACH’S SHOW: The Coach Petersen Show, with Elise Woodward and head coach achieved a 3.09 grade point average (second-highest in recorded history for UW football) Chris Petersen, will air each Monday on KOMO AM-1000 / FM-97.7 at 6:00 p.m.. during the fall academic quarter. Three Huskies earned District 8 Academic All-America and Jake Eldrenkamp was named the Pac-12’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year for football. Along HUSKY SPORTS NETWORK: The following stations make up the 17-station Husky with a 12-2 (8-1 in the Pac-12), the Huskies posted other eye-popping numbers on offense, Sports Network, covering three states: defense and special teams. The Huskies led the nation in turnover margin and were first in the conference and eighth in the nation in both total offense and total defense. The UW led WASHINGTON: the Pac-12 in 17 different team statistical categories. Following the 2016 season, in May Seattle (flagship) KOMO 1000 AM Port Angeles/Sequim KONP 1450 AM of 2017, Petersen was honored with the Stallings Award, awarded annually to a college KOMO 97.7 FM Spokane KOOL 107.1 AM head football coach who is both a humanitarian and an exceptional coach, and named after Aberdeen KWOK 1490 AM Tacoma KOMO 1000 AM former Alabama and Texas A&M head coach Gene Stallings. In 2015, Petersen’s Huskies, Bellingham KPUG 1170 AM Walla Walla KUJ 1420 AM featuring one of the nation’s youngest squads and a schedule ranked by many as the na- Centralia KELA 1430 AM Wenatchee KKRT 900 AM tion’s toughest, rallied for the Dawgs’ sixth consecutive bowl berth, which resulted in a Kelso/Longview KLOG 1490 AM Yakima KUTI 1460 AM victory over Southern Miss in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.