Dots: Budda Baker Named All-American

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Football Dots

• Publications are starting to release their All-American teams, and Sporting News names Budda Baker to their first team. He and a number of Huskies make the Pacific Takes AA team as well.

• Legendary Husky Football announcer Bob Rondeau was honored with the Chris Schenkel Award at the National Football Foundation Awards Dinner. Read about the award here.

• Ranking the top-10 Pac-12 games of 2016.

• Bleacher Report with a brief analysis and pick for the Alabama game.

• We’ve been hearing all year about Washington’s soft non-conference schedule. Well, bigger and better opponents are on the horizon.

• Pro Football Focus includes numerous Huskies on their All Pac-12 team.

• Great film study of Alabama’s star LB Rueben Foster, and his performance against Florida in the SEC Championship Game.

• The Ducks find their man, writes Andrew Greif of The Oregonian. Pacific Takes also has their reaction on the hiring of Willie Taggart.

• Looking at the X-Factors in the Peach Bowl:

Basketball Dots

• The Huskies struggles on the hardwood continue, as they were destroyed by Gonzaga last night, 98-71.

• Lorenzo Romar is confident that the Gonzaga game will not define the season.