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. #6/6 OREGON Sept. 3 EASTERN WASH. [ROOT Sports] W, 30-27 Dawgs Close Down Husky Stadium vs. Ducks 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 (6-2 overall, 4-1 Pac-12) hosts the final game at the Sept. 24 CALIFORNIA [FSN] W, 31-23 current Husky Stadium this Saturday when Oregon (7-0, 5-0) visits for a 7:30 p.m. game Saturday Oct. 1 at Utah [FSN] W, 31-14 night. The Ducks are ranked No. 6 in both polls, while Washington sits three spots from the top Oct. 15 COLORADO [ROOT Sports/FCS-Atl.] W, 52-24 25 in both. The game, which will feature a number of special ceremonies to mark the closing of Oct. 22 at #7 Stanford [ABC] L, 65-21 the 92-year old facility for major renovations, will air live on ROOT Sports/FSN. Washington will Oct. 29 ARIZONA [FSN] W, 42-31 play the Apple Cup and all of the 2012 season at the Seattle Seahawks’ Century Link Field. After Nov. 5 #6 OREGON [FSN] 7:30 p.m. the game vs. Oregon, the Dawgs travel to face USC and Oregon State the next two weekends. Nov. 12 at USC [ABC/ESPN or FSN] 12:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at Oregon State TBD QUICK SNAPS: The Huskies are 6-2 overall and 4-1 in conference for the first time since 2001 ... tailback Chris Polk has rushed for 100 yards in seven of eight games this year and now has 18 Nov. 26 WSU [at CenturyLink Field] TBD career 100-yard games, a new school record ... last Saturday vs. Arizona, Polk tied the UW modern all times Pacific • rankings are AP at time of game record by scoring five touchdowns and became the first player in UW history to top 100 yards in both rushing (144) and receiving (100) in the same game ... he also passed the 1,000-yard mark for 2011 PAC-12 STANDINGS a third straight season, joining Napoleon Kaufman as one of two Huskies ever to do that ... Polk is second on the UW career rushing yards list with 3,577 yards ... Polk ranks fifth in the nation in NORTH Pac-12 Overall rushing (127.0 yards per game) ... UW quarterback Keith Price is tied for fifth in the nation with 23 1. Stanford 6-0 8-0 touchdown passes ... 23 TD passes already ranks No. 4 in UW single-season history ... if Price were 2. Oregon 5-0 7-1 to maintain his current pass efficiency rating of 162.7, he would easily surpass the school record 3. Washington 4-1 6-2 (153.8, Brock Huard, 1997) ... at .665, he’s also well ahead of the UW season record for completion 4. Oregon State 2-3 2-6 percentage (.650, Steve Pelluer, 1983) ... Price is eighth in the nation in pass efficiency ... Kevin 5. California 1-4 4-4 Smith ranks ninth in the nation in kick returns while Cort Dennison leads the Pac-12 in tackles ... Washington State 1-4 3-5 six 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. SOUTH Pac-12 Overall 1. Arizona State 4-1 6-2 TELEVISION: The Washington-Oregon game will air live to a national audience on ROOT Sports 2. USC 3-2 6-2 (in the Northwest) and FSN (nationally). Craig Bolerjack, Joel Klatt and Petros Papadakis will UCLA 3-2 4-4 provide the commentary. Additionally, “Huskies All-Access” airs each Wednesday evening on 4. Utah 1-4 4-4 ROOT Sports. The program is an up-close look at each Husky game, with features, one-on-one 5. Arizona 1-5 2-6 interviews and sideline video. Colorado 0-5 1-8 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. Friday: USC at Colorado, 6:00 p.m. (ESPN) Many game broadcasts will also be carried on SiriusXM Satellite Radio and can be heard over the Utah at Arizona, 3:00 p.m. (KWBA/FSArizona/FCS-C) internet at gohuskies.com. ESPN Radio will also broadcast the game nationally. Washington State at California, 3:30 p.m. (CSN-CA) Stanford at Oregon State, 12:30 p.m. (ABC) WASHINGTON vs. OREGON Arizona State at UCLA, 4:30 p.m. (Versus) Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 • 7:30 p.m. PT Oregon at Washington, 7:30 p.m. (FSN) Radio: 950 KJR-AM and the Washington IMG College Network; ESPN Radio (national) Television: ROOT Sports (in the Northwest); FSN (nationally) LAST WEEK’S PAC-12 RESULTS Media Schedule for the Week: Oregon 43, Washington State 28 Monday: Press conference, 12 noon Wednesday: Practice: 4:00 p.m. (offensive Arizona State 48, Colorado 14 Founder’s Club players & coaches and Coach UCLA 31, California 14 Practice: 3:15 p.m. (no interviews) Sarkisian interviews after) Utah 27, Oregon State 8 Tuesday: Pac-12 Coaches Teleconference Thursday: Practice: 4:00 p.m. Stanford 56, USC 48 (3 OT) 10:10 a.m. (Sarkisian: 11:30 a.m.) (Coach Sarkisian after) Washington 42, Arizona 31 Practice: 4:00 p.m. (defensive Friday: no media availability players & coaches interviews after) WASHINGTON vs. OREGON • HUSKY STADIUM • NOV. 5, 2011 • 7:30 P.M. PT (ROOT Sports / FSN) 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. 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.