As a Washington State Cougar fan, I’ll admit the Huskies had a great season and championship game.
That being said, may they rot in Hell for their abandonment of WSU and the Pac 12.
My Dad took me to the Apple Cup in 1975. Warren Moon and Spider Gaines brought the Dawgs back from a 13 point deficit with 3 minutes to go. I was hooked.
Spent 7 years at the UW getting three degrees. Went to most of the games. Went to the Rose Bowl in 1981.
My parents had two season tickets. Starting around 1996 or so, as my mom got too ill to go, I started taking my Dad. She passed in 2000. He passed in 2004.
I kept the tickets for a few years, taking friends and my kids. But it eventually got to be too much hassle (I live well over an hour’s drive south of Seattle), so I gave them up.
I turned 64 this year. For my birthday, my kids got us all tickets to this year’s Apple Cup. 48 years after my first one.
Absolutely gorgeous late fall day. The weather was perfect. The game less so, but the Huskies won on a last second field goal. As the Dawgs’ last regular season Pac-12 game, it was a historic game to attend.
Sure glad they beat the Ducks again. And hoping they do well in the playoffs!
Not their fault, and I wish they would have just went back to the PAC 10 and let USC and UCLA go away. PAC 8 even. Utah is likely to be king dog on the West now. They have a great coach..
If you want to play with the big dogs, you have to play on the East coast. Not their fault, or my fault. They tried to bring in Texas and Oklahoma, but they didn’t bite. That was when the writing was on the wall.