Friday Dots: The Once and Future Opponent

Football Dots

• Mike Vorel empties his notebook ahead of tomorrow’s Michigan State game including some talk of the Parker Brothers’ return to their home state.
• Christian Caple made his picks for all of the Pac-12 games this week coming off a week where he went 8-2 against the spread.
• Bill Connelly includes UW/MSU in his Week 3 preview and notes that the biggest key to the game will be Washington’s offensive line against what has been one of the best pass rushes in the country through 2 games (versus weak competition)
• Our Michigan State sister site has their preview of the Huskies.

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It has been a busy last few days here at the Dawg Pound so in case you missed any of it:

• Pac-12 Rankings and Projections After Week 2
• Opponent Offense Preview
• Opponent Defense Preview
• Opponent Q&A
• Three Keys to the Game
• Penix’s Heisman Bid Update
• Picking the Pac
• All We Hear is Purple Podcast

• Basketball Dots
• The Huskies released their complete list of conference dates and pairings and Washington won’t host Arizona while missing the road trip to USC. Those are the consensus top-two teams in the conference this season meaning the Pac-12 schedule can’t get much easier.

Washington Athletics Dots

• UW Volleyball got a close 5 set win at Cal Poly last night to extend their win streak to 8 matches. The Dawgs got off to a terrible start and collapsed at the end of set 4 but managed to rally in the 5th and final set in part due to the stellar play of freshman Kiersty Barton who put up historic numbers.
• Washington finishes out non-conference play this weekend with a game this afternoon at 3p against Pepperdine and tomorrow at 10:30a versus Saint Mary’s. Neither of those games are expected to be live streamed.

• Men’s Soccer came away with a 1-1 draw on the road at #1 Stanford after a potential game-winning shot in the 81st minute hit off the top of the crossbar.