Washington Wins Apple Cup 35-28 En Route to Bowl Game
by John Berkowitz on Dec 4, 2010 8:30 PM PST
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PrintChris Polk toted the ball 29 times for 284 yards to lead Washington to a 35-28 win over Washington State on Saturday night. That is the second highest rushing total for a single game in Washington history. Hugh McElhenny ran for 296 yards against the Cougars in 1950.
Washington was in control almost the entire game but the Cougars made it a bit dicey when they tied the game at 28-28 after the Huskied blew a 28-14 lead. Washington played well most of the night but could never quite put this one away.
Jake Locker who made two critical turnovers during the game hit Jermaine Kearse for a 27 yard TD with 44 seconds left for the game winner. Jake redeemed himself for the second week in a row after two critical turnovers that kept the Cougars in the game. Locker and Polk led the Huskies on a 88 yard drive to win the game. Kearse had two clutch TD passes in the game.
The win was the third straight to end the regular season for UW and leaves the Huskies at 6-6. This is their first non-losing regular season since 2003. Washington will be invited to either the Alamo or Holiday bowl on Sunday afternoon to play a Big 12 foe.
WSU's Jeff Tuel showed that he is a force to be reckoned with in the future. He threw for 298 yards and three touchdowns in the loss to Washington. The close loss may have sealed the doom of WSU coach Paul Wulff whose Cougars finished with a 2-10 record despite showing improvement over the second half of the year.
(Bugs Dodger's final piece in his four part Apple Cup series is delayed because he is away from the computer because his wife cut him off after he started throwing whiskey bottles against the living room fireplace chimney midway in the fourth quarter. He will be back after a brief timeout.)
Notes
DT Semisi Tokolahi broken/dislocated ankle and WR Cody Bruns fractured clavicle are finished for the year according to Sark.
ESPN is reporting that bottles, frozen animal feces, and ice were being thrown at UW players and fans after the game and that there was at least one altercation.
Stay classy WSU!
Dozens of fans brawled in a Rose Bowl parking lot before the Southern California-UCLA football game Saturday, leaving two men stabbed, two police officers with minor injuries and three men arrested, authorities said.
Stay classy UCLA and USC!
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Weh-Hew!
Nice! We beat ’em more that than score shows!
Come Back, Bugs! Thanks so much, John. We’ll see you all in San Diego, I ’think…?
Awesome way to finish the season!!!
I don’t care where we go bowling, or who we play, today we took a step in the right direction. It wasn’t the season we wanted, but it’s the outcome we wanted, we are going to a bowl game! The coaching staff is showing progress, we are headed in the right direction and the future is bright!!!
GO DAWGS!!!!!
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
"Legends are made on the shores of Lake Washington"
The Honks on the radio just said..
If you had said before the season started, “Third in the Pac 10, a Holiday or Alamo berth, what would you have said?” Answer, “Sign me up, I’ll take it!!”
Add in, four games that go to the wire, and we win all four, pretty special. Awesome!!
Then you say, “6-6.”
Answer, “So what, who cares? We are third behind the number 1, and the number 4 team in the country. After 0-12 two years ago, amazing.”
by OlyDawgFan on Dec 4, 2010 10:02 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Congrats to this team. They never quit, even when most had given them up for dead.
Lets go bowling, please please Holiday.
at least I'm not in pullman
atty sez not much can be done till morning. mrs dodger gets like this. sry. will post when i get home if locks not changed. my first time in a colorado jail this makes 34 states only 16 to go! everyone in here seems cool and sez hi & go dawgs. oh. they need my iphone now. jailer not my cellmates. guy wearing a boise state sweatshirt in there. uh oh! we may rumble. bow down to washington!
by Bugs Dodger on Dec 4, 2010 9:16 PM PST via mobile reply actions 2 recs
Too drunk to get this.
But RECing, just in case.
by Mind of no mind on Dec 5, 2010 2:53 AM PST up reply actions
No such thing as
too drunk to rec…you can always flag it in the morning, or afternoon, when you’re sober. It’s my MO.
by hairofthedawg on Dec 5, 2010 4:34 AM PST up reply actions
Rec'd.
For a gripping tale of personal tragedy, delivered through the quintessential medium of 2010: the iPhone. It teases the imagination with just enough detail to pique your interest but not enough to reveal too much, like a skirt that falls at the perfect point on a woman’s thigh. Five stars.
In conclusion, go Huskies.
Note to Bugs
There is good reason I keep plenty of nerf objects at hand while watching a Husky game…they’re a lot cheaper than broken TVs and POed wives:-)
Great win even though Jake got in the way a couple of times.
Do the Pac-10 refs have a formula for calling holding calls on Wazoo? Something like 5 take downs of the opposing D line=one holding call? I think it might be higher than that when it’s Jamora they’re holding.
If the Pac 10 refs aren’t the worst refs in the country I don’t want to see the worst. They were ineptness squared to night.
Truer words have never been spoken.
If the Pac 10 refs aren’t the worst refs in the country I don’t want to see the worst. They were ineptness squared to night.
Larry Scott’s next project better be the officiating, it needs a massive overhaul.
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
"Legends are made on the shores of Lake Washington"
The non-called holding calls against WAZZU came on big plays and almost changed the outcome of the game. If you are going to call holding on Jake’s long TD run, then you also have to call the plain to see for everyone holding on more than one of WSU’s big plays as well
Regarding thrown objects ...
… I like to think that the projectiles were the product of an obnoxious minority of WSU fans. I have never had an in-person confrontation with a Coug. Generally a passionate, decent bunch. Except that they cheer for the wrong team.
God help us if it was the majority...
ESPN is reporting that bottles, frozen animal feces, and ice were being thrown at UW players and fans after the game and that there was at least one altercation.
What kind of mouth-breathing asshole brings a bag of cow-shit to a football game?
You know, for throwing. Not for snacking. At least, I don’t think so
what on earth...
makes you think they had to bring it with them? Have you actually seen the town?
On CSI, they would refer to manure as a weapon of convenience.
by ole dawg on Dec 4, 2010 9:59 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
They are the minority
My family has a lot of Cougs. They are terrific folk.
I'm sure it's true ...
… the jerks generally seem to be the bottom 1%, except when you’re talking about the ducks.
I just can’t understand the planning needed to get feces of any sort into a stadium … sneaking it through security, making it into a projectile, etc.
Time to think bowl game. Go Dawgs!
Sad to say
our side has idiot fans too. Nobody has a corner on that market.
I don't disagree ...
… it’s just that our side either, a) threw frozen feces, bottles and snowballs surreptitiously, or b) didn’t throw frozen feces, bottles and snowballs.
I have no doubt that at every Apple Cup each side has its … um … sparkling citizens. My point was that the jackasses don’t represent the majority of decent fans.
by Jeff in MD on Dec 4, 2010 10:49 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Last week I saw
a comment on the PI blog. I know, I know, WTF am I doing reading the paper in the bottom of the garbage can? Guy says Locker is not really a QB! Yeah right. Name the last UW QB to lead his team to four last minute wins in one season. Especially when you consider his team? He is not perfect, but as we used to say in the Army, I’ll take him in my foxhole every time. He gets it done!
Off the top of my head...
I would guess Marques Tuiasosopo. Pretty good company, in my opinion.
by Mind of no mind on Dec 5, 2010 3:00 AM PST up reply actions
WOW on so many levels...
Awesome win, but once again the Apple Cup gives us a bizarre football game. I thought not kicking the chip shot FG would haunt us and that was before the fumble. The Fellner drop of a sure pick-six had me nauseous after their score. 14 point swing there. I really thought at 21-0 they Cougs would mail it in. But Chris Polk was a MAN out there all night. And Jake shut some people up tonight. What heart.
But the most overwhelming thing I came away from the game with is……HOW EFFING HORRIBLE THE PAC 10 REFS ARE!!!!!!!!! Only three games in the conference today. After the Civil War, the Apple Cup had the most riding on it, and this was the crew sent to ref the game???? If Larry Scott wants to take the Pac 10/12 to the next level in the national consciousness, he’s got to do something about the officiating.
Jake’s long TD that was called back? Show me the hold. I sure didn’t see it on the replay. No interference on the Coug that was mugging Kearse, twice actually. The call on Tolar was ticky tack. And wtf??? If you spend forever reviewing a play, get the down and distance right!! That happened twice. etc. etc. I could go on all night.
Great win despite our miscues and having to overcome the crap officials.
I'd rather bark when I talk than waddle when I walk.
Every time I see your post ...
… I think you’re a duck, and want to disagree on principle. It’s the green, yellow, gray, black, white, silver, metallic green, metallic yellow, metallic black, matte black and metallic white in the logo. Then I take a closer look and realize you’re not one of those.
But yeah, Polk’s monster, Locker clearly wanted a bowl more than anyone can imagine, and our defense was good enough to get it done. There were several points where we could have put this one away, but didn’t quite get there. It was exciting and worth the armload of beers I drank while watching.
Go Dawgs!
yeah...
I thought about changing the pic, but all those Quacks in jailstripes is just too funny. If it gets people to click on it then I’m keeping it!
I'd rather bark when I talk than waddle when I walk.
by arch stanton77 on Dec 4, 2010 10:30 PM PST up reply actions
The next level
would still be terrible. They need to go up about five levels just to be respectable! Horrible. At least the are equal opportunity screw ups. I thought several times, the long delays gave the Dawgs a much needed break in momentum.
Callier was robbed
Having looked at the play a couple of times, I am having a hard time seeing too many men in the backfield on what should have been Callier’s first career touchdown. Locker, two running backs, and the tight end is all I see.
I will admit my old eyes aren’t what they used to be. Anyone look at it better and can tell me if I’m wrong?
I think you're right
I didn’t see it either. I forgot to vent about that one in my earlier post.
Did anyone notice anytime we ran to the right side when we had the ball going right to left (as seen on TV) that the side judge would double clutch at his hanky? It was like he was just itching to throw a flag.
I'd rather bark when I talk than waddle when I walk.
by arch stanton77 on Dec 4, 2010 11:43 PM PST up reply actions
PAC-10 Refs ARE The Worst...
….. and we all know this. And that’s why, as I kept telling my U of Miami girlfriend last night (even she could see how bad the refs were), that is why we have to beat the Cougars, AND the refs. And we did!
fire Wulff?
Cougs can do what they want, but I think Wulff did a good job. Pullman is a unique place and a lot of coaches may not go there. Before you fire someone, you need a better replacement, and be willing to give up much of the the current recruiting class. Wulff is certainly better than the Pac10 refs.
don't dump wulff.
There’s precious few coaches that actually want the job, and clearly they’re making progress. They have some real talent in house, and a young quality QB.
I'm probably in the minority in that I want to see both UW and WSU have success,
But I honestly think that WSU would be making a pretty big mistake is they fire Wulff, unless they already have a big name in the wings that they know will except the job.
by Mind of no mind on Dec 5, 2010 3:14 AM PST up reply actions
I don’t mind when the Coug’s do well…it gives me another thing to get invested in on Saturday. As long as they lose the Apple Cup I am fine with them being competitive.
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by John Berkowitz on Dec 5, 2010 9:19 AM PST up reply actions
Lambo
blew Softy away earlier this week when Softy had him on the show talking AC, ETC. At some point in the show Lambo said he’s always rooted for the Cougs to do well, except for the AC because they represent our state just as UW does. Softy asked him if this something new and Lambo said no, I’ve always felt this way. I agree with Lambo, I’ve always rooted for the Cougs except one game. I think Wulff gets one more year.
I think that is the way it should be.
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by John Berkowitz on Dec 5, 2010 10:09 AM PST up reply actions
Totally agree
If the cougs are dumb enough to dump Wulff, then they deserve to be bottom dwellers for at least 2 more years. Everyone can see they are improving, and I didn’t see any quit in the team. They played hard and didn’t mail it in like our team did under Ty in the last year and half of his realm.
Continuity in coaching. Change coaches now, and they will start all over, albeit with better talent than Wulff inherited. I say by the third year you should be able to judge what direction the program is going. They are improving, it just takes much longer at WSU because of the environs to bring in top notch talent.
They would be crazy to fire Wulff
It really looks like they are headed in the right direction over there.
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by John Berkowitz on Dec 5, 2010 9:45 AM PST up reply actions
Agree 100%
The other point to this is Wulff is an alumni and would most likely stay there no matter how successful he becomes. Hard not to see a non-alumni using it as a stepping stone.
Apple Cup
Paul Wolff and the WSU fans need not worry about the faulty timkeeping in the Apple Cup. The UW Huskies just cleaned there clocks!!!!
I Agree about Wulff, FYI Please GO VOTE on a new FREE iphone app released "vote for favorite college football team"
I Agree Cougars are struggling with or without Wulff. FYI, a new Free app on the iPhone/iPod touch was just released where you can vote for your favorite college football team. Just search “favorite college” in app store and it will come up. My friends and fellow alumni are going to start voting to get us to the top into the top #10, Washington state is currently in the top #10, . I want to spread the word to get us #1 or atleast pass them. .Pass this on to other UW students and Alumni.
by FavoriteCollegeT on Dec 10, 2010 10:28 AM PST reply actions
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