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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 at OREGON STATE Sept. 3 EASTERN WASH. [ROOT Sports] W, 30-27 Dawgs Head South To Face Beavers In Corvallis 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 (6-4 overall, 4-3 Pac-12) takes on Oregon State (2-8, 2-5) Sept. 24 CALIFORNIA [FSN] W, 31-23 in the first of back-to-back Northwest rivalry games. The Dawgs and Beavers square off Saturday at Oct. 1 at Utah [FSN] W, 31-14 12:30 p.m. PT at Reser Stadium in a game that will air live in the Northwest on ROOT Sports. The Oct. 15 COLORADO [ROOT Sports/FCS-Atl.] W, 52-24 following week, Washington hosts Washington State in the annual Apple Cup at the Seahawks’ Oct. 22 at #7 Stanford [ABC] L, 65-21 CenturyLink Field in downtown Seattle. That game, which closes out the regular season, kicks off Oct. 29 ARIZONA [FSN] W, 42-31 at 4:30 p.m. and will air live on Versus television. Like the rest of the conference’s bowl-eligible Nov. 5 #6 OREGON [FSN] L, 34-17 teams, the UW will then have to wait until after the conference championship games to learn its Nov. 12 at #18 USC [FX] L, 40-17 bowl fate. Washington is one of six Pac-12 teams so far to have attained bowl eligibility. Nov. 19 at Oregon State [ROOT Sports] 12:30 p.m. QUICK SNAPS: The UW has won its final two games of the regularseason in each of the previous Nov. 26 WSU [at CenturyLink Field] [Versus] 4:30 p.m. two seasons under coach Steve Sarkisian ... Chris Polk now owns three of the top nine seasons all times Pacific • rankings are AP at time of game in school history in terms of rushing yards ... his 1,415 last season ranks No. 2; this year’s 1,132 ranks No. 8 and his 2009 total of 1,113 is ninth-best ... Polk has rushed for 100 yards in seven of 2011 PAC-12 STANDINGS 10 games this year and now has 18 career 100-yard games, a new school record ... Oct. 29 vs. Arizona, Polk tied the UW modern record by scoring five touchdowns and became the first player NORTH Pac-12 Overall in UW history to top 100 yards in both rushing (144) and receiving (100) in the same game ... Polk 1. Oregon 7-0 9-1 is second on the UW career rushing yards list with 3,693 yards ... Polk ranks 14th in the nation in 2. Stanford 7-1 9-1 rushing (113.2 yards per game) ... UW quarterback Keith Price is tied for 10th in the nation with 25 3. Washington 4-3 6-4 touchdown passes ... 25 TD passes ranks tied for No. 2 in UW single-season history, three shy of 4. California 3-4 6-4 Cody Pickett’s record of 28 ... if Price were to maintain his current pass efficiency rating of 155.1, 5. Washington State 2-5 4-6 he would surpass the school record (153.8, Brock Huard, 1997) ... at .673, he’s also well ahead Oregon State 2-5 2-8 of the UW season record for completion percentage (.650, Steve Pelluer, 1983) ... Price is 16th in the nation in pass efficiency ... senior linebacker Cort Dennison leads the Pac-12 in tackles ... six SOUTH Pac-12 Overall true freshmen have played this year for the UW: S James Sample, TB Bishop Sankey, TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins, DT Danny Shelton, OLB John Timu and WR Kasen Williams. 1. USC 5-2 8-2 2. Arizona State 4-3 6-4 TELEVISION: The Washington-Oregon State game will air live to a regional audience on ROOT UCLA 4-3 5-5 Sports television. Tom Glasgow, Steve Preece and Jason Stiles will provide the commentary. Ad- 4. Utah 3-4 6-4 ditionally, “Huskies All-Access” airs each Wednesday evening on ROOT Sports. The program is 5. Colorado 1-6 2-9 an up-close look at each Husky game, with features, one-on-one interviews and sideline video. 6. Arizona 1-7 2-8 RADIO: The Washington ISP Sports Network, with its flagship station KJR 950-AM/102.9 FM, will carry the live broadcast of every football game on 16 Northwest radio stations. Longtime play- THIS WEEK’S PAC-12 GAMES by-play man Bob Rondeau and color analyst Damon Huard are joined by sideline reporter Elise Washington at Oregon St., 12:30 p.m. (ROOT Sports) Woodward. Many game broadcasts will also be carried on SiriusXM Satellite Radio and can be Utah at Washington State, 2:00 p.m. (KJZZ/FCS-Atl.) heard over the internet at gohuskies.com. Colorado at UCLA, 4:30 p.m. (Versus) USC at Oregon, 5:00 p.m. (ABC) WASHINGTON at OREGON STATE Arizona at Arizona State, 6:30 p.m. (FS-Arizona) Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011 • 12:30 p.m. PT California at Stanford, 7:15 p.m. (ESPN) Radio: KJR 950-AM/102.9 FM and the Washington IMG College Network Television: ROOT Sports (regional) LAST WEEK’S PAC-12 RESULTS Media Schedule for the Week: Colorado 48, Arizona 29 Monday: Press conference, 12 noon Wednesday: Practice: 4:00 p.m. (offensive USC 40, Washington 17 Founder’s Club players & coaches and Coach California 23, Oregon State 6 Practice: 3:15 p.m. (no interviews) Sarkisian interviews after) Utah 31, UCLA 6 Tuesday: Pac-12 Coaches Teleconference Thursday: Practice: 4:00 p.m. Oregon 53, Stanford 30 10:10 a.m. (Sarkisian: 11:30 a.m.) (Coach Sarkisian after) Washington State 37, Arizona State 27 Practice: 4:00 p.m. (defensive Friday: no media availability players & coaches interviews after) WASHINGTON at OREGON STATE • RESER STADIUM • NOV. 19, 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-12 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.