Happy Monday Dawg fans, and welcome to today’s Dots.
This Yogi Berra-ism may well sum-up Saturday’s game when viewed in the context of the entire schedule, come December. Indeed the game itself had its own reversal of fortunes, and it could prove a tentpole for the 2025 season. Time will tell — but after the loss to Ohio State, I heard many in Husky Land opine that the Maryland game now loomed very important to this 2025 Husky team.
Let’s be honest — no one expected the Dawgs to beat Ohio State. Not a shock to be 3-1 after last weekend. Fine. But to come out unsynched against Maryland (the Huskies did), to look out-played and out-coached for the entire first half (also Yes), to have Jonah Coleman bottled up and Demond Williams throwing errant passes (both true) and leave the east coast with yet another road loss for Jedd Fisch’s Huskies… It would be entirely fair for Husky fans to reset expectations and second-guess just where this team is in its trajectory and its ceiling for this season.
And all of that did happen. For 34 minutes. Until the Dawgs got right in every which way and went FG; TD; TD; TD; kneel down/victory formation, all while hitting the Off switch on Maryland’s offense. Saturday’s remarkable comeback win might be a season-defining moment. Again, time will tell. There’s a lot of football left to play.
Yogi Berra never gave a choice to whomever was listening to his directions. There really is only one way to go when you hit that fork in the road, isn’t there? The Dawgs kept going in the only direction a team that believes in itself can go, completely flipped the script on the Terrapins in the 2nd half, and had a long flight home to soak it up.
Although it seemed that UW’s defense had little answer for the Terrapins offense in the 1st half, holding Maryland to FG’s twice was crucial in giving the Dawgs room for a comeback, particularly after Demond’s first-possession INT that gave the Terrapins the ball at the Husky 14-yard line.
But I think it’s fair to keep one question afloat: Why did UW have zero points until 4 minutes left in the 3rd quarter? UW went seven quarters without a touchdown. For a reportedly ‘High-powered Offense’, does this concern you? Food for thought..
- Christian Caple: “The Day After: 22 more thoughts on Washington’s 24-20 win at Maryland“
- Dan Raley: “Huskies Come Back From the Dead, Beat Maryland“
- Andrew Sousa, UW Daily: “Washington rallies from 20 down to stun Maryland 24-20“
- After a collapse like Maryland had, I was interested in their take on the game: “Takeaways from Maryland football’s demoralizing 24-20 loss to Washington” from Testudo Times
- Rolling Demond out to throw downfield seems like a good thing to keep doing:
- SO YOU’RE SAYING WE’VE GOT A CHANCE!
- It just makes too much sense that Rick’s kid is the spitting image of his poppa. Also, the Dawgs’ trip to the Rose Bowl in November isn’t looking like the sure W it did two weeks ago, is it?
- Womens’s soccer: the top 3 teams in the Big Ten rankings were all in the Pac 12 two years ago.
- It was an all-Dawgs final at the Alki [Beach] Fall Classic, where UW took on Boise State, Oregon and Saint Mary’s. And “both [finalists] will get to compete at the fall national pairs tourney next month in Alabama.”
Go Dawgs!!