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 #6/6 WASHINGTON vs. FRESNO STATE Sept. 1 at Rutgers (FS1) W, 30-14 Dawgs Wrap Up Non-Conference Season Vs. Bulldogs Sept. 9 MONTANA (Pac-12) W, 63-7 Sept. 16 FRESNO STATE (Pac-12) 6:30 p.m. THE GAME: The Washington football team (2-0) wraps up the non-conference schedule this Sept. 23 at Colorado* (FS1) 7:00 p.m. Saturday as Fresno State (1-1) visits Husky Stadium for a 6:30 p.m. game, which will air on Pac-12 Sept. 30 at Oregon State* TBD Network. The Huskies have opened the season with wins at Rutgers and home against Montana Oct. 7 CALIFORNIA* TBD while the Bulldogs, under first-year head coach Jeff Tedford (who spent last season at the UW as Oct. 14 at Arizona State* TBD a consultant), opened with a win vs. Incarnate Word and a loss to No. 1 Alabama. The Huskies are Oct. 28 UCLA* TBD ranked No. 6 in both of the latest polls. After Saturday’s game, the Huskies open Pac-12 play with Nov. 4 OREGON* TBD back-to-back road games, Sept. 23 at Colorado and Sept. 30 at Oregon State. Nov. 10 at Stanford* (FS1) 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18 UTAH* TBD QUICK SLANTS: Washington’s Dante Pettis tied the Pac-12 record with his sixth career punt return Nov. 25 WASHINGTON STATE* TBD for a touchdown, with a 61-yard score at Rutgers ... against Montana, he broke that record, with all times are Pacific his seventh, a 67-yard TD ... he’s now one shy of the NCAA record of eight, shared by Wes Welker rankings are AP at time of game (Texas Tech) and Antonio Perkins (Oklahoma) ... in the win over Montana, eight different Huskies scored a touchdown, including five different players on rushing plays ... Washington played 74 2017 PAC-12 STANDINGS players in the Montana game ... Washington led the nation in turnover margin in 2016 ... this year, the Huskies have six takeaways and one turnover, and the Huskies’ +2.50 per game is currently third-best in the nation ... Keishawn Bierria led the nation in fumble recoveries last year, with five NORTH Pac-12 Overall ... he recovered one against Montana, giving him seven for his career, one shy of the UW career California 0-0 2-0 record ... tailback Myles Gaskin scored his 25th career rushing touchdown vs. the Grizzlies, placing Oregon 0-0 2-0 him 10th on the UW list ... two games into his junior season, Jake Browning currently sits fourth Washington 0-0 2-0 on the UW career passing yards (6,928) and career completions (515) charts ... his 63 career TD Washington State 0-0 2-0 passes remain second on the list, behind Keith Price’s 75 ... six true freshmen have seen action for Oregon State 0-0 1-2 the UW so far this year: TE Hunter Bryant, TE Jacob Kizer, TB Salvon Ahmed and DBs Keith Taylor, Stanford 0-1 1-1 Brandon McKinney and Elijah Molden ... UW entered the year with 32 players on the roster who had started at least one game ... four more (LB Ben Burr-Kirven and DBs Jordan Miller, Myles Bryant and SOUTH Pac-12 Overall Murphy) earned their first starts at Rutgers, meaning that 36 different Huskies have started a game. USC 1-0 2-0 Arizona 0-0 1-1 TELEVISION: The Washington-Fresno State game will air live to a national audience on Pac-12 Arizona State 0-0 1-1 Network with Ted Robinson (play-by-play), Yogi Roth (color) and Jill Savage (sidelines) providing Colorado 0-0 2-0 the commentary. UCLA 0-0 2-0 Utah 0-0 2-0 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 Fri.: Arizona at UTEP, 7:15 p.m. (ESPN) Woodward. The home broadcast of the game will also air on Sirius (145) and XM (197) satellite radio. UCLA at Memphis, 9 a.m. (ABC/ESPN2) Northern Colorado at Colorado, 11 a.m. (Pac-12) #6/6 WASHINGTON vs. FRESNO STATE Oregon St. at Washington St., 2:30 p.m. (Pac-12) Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017 • 6:30 p.m. PT Oregon at Wyoming, 4 p.m. (CBS-SN) Radio: KOMO AM-1000/FM-97.7 and the Washington IMG College Network; Arizona State at Texas Tech, 5 p.m. (FSN) Sirius 145; XM 197 Television: Pac-12 Network Texas at USC, 5:30 p.m. (FOX) Media Schedule for the Week: Fresno State at Washington, 6:30 p.m. (Pac-12) San Jose State at Utah, 7:00 p.m. (ESPN2) Monday: Press conference, 11:30 a.m. Wednesday: Interviews: 11:45 a.m. (offensive Founder’s Club coaches & player interviews after) Ole Miss at California, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday: Interviews: 11:45 a.m. (defensive Thursday: Coach Petersen in old team room Stanford at San Diego State, 7:30 p.m. (CBS-SN) coaches & player interviews after) at approximately 11:55 a.m. Pac-12 Coaches Teleconference Friday: No media availability 10:15 a.m. (Petersen: 11:55 a.m.) * all times approximate. Arrive early! WASHINGTON vs. FRESNO STATE • HUSKY STADIUM • SEPT. 16, 2017 • 6:30 P.M. PT (PAC-12) 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 home fruition to date with the successes of the team in 2016. Along with those on-field victo- broadcast of the UW-Montana game will air on Sirius 145 and XM 197. 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. A stout Husky defense (first in Mt. Vernon KBRC 1430 AM OREGON: the Pac-12 in scoring and total defense) led the way as a freshman-laden offense showed Mt. Vernon KRBC 102.1 FM Portland KUIK 1360 AM steady growth en route to a 7-6 season record.