How 14 Michigan-Washington games played out

The University of Washington football team has never beaten teams like Notre Dame, Alabama, and LSU, and has never even faced Georgia, Tennessee, or Florida State.

However, among college football’s peerless players, Michigan, while taking its usual share of flesh from the UW – just 10 months ago from Texas, in fact – was responsible as much as anyone for giving the Huskies the feeling of belonging to college football. big boys.

On Saturday, these two programs meet for the 15th time and first time as members of the Big Ten, with both finding themselves in rebuilding mode after going their way with everyone else last season as a national champion and runner-up .

“First of all, they’re two great brands,” UW coach Jedd Fisch said.

While the Wolverines usually win two out of three games with UW, the Huskies have been very adept at surprising Michigan when it least expects it and in this weekend’s game, that could happen again.

ALL-TIME UW-MICHIGAN SERIES
1953 — at Michigan 50, UW 0	The Wolverines outgained UW 345-134 in yards
1954 – Michigan 14, at UW 0	UW 0-4 on fourth down in Michigan
1969 — at Michigan 45, UW 7	Glenn Doughty ran for 191 yards
1970 – Michigan 17, at UW 3	Wolverines handed Sixkiller his first defeat
1978 – UW 27, Michigan 20 (Rose Bowl)	Warren Moon had 2 TD runs, 1 scoring pass
1981 – Michigan 23, UW 6 (Rose Bowl)	The Huskies had 2 touchdowns canceled
1983 — UW 25, Michigan 24	UW won in the final 34 seconds
1984 – UW 20, at Michigan 11	73-yard TD pass from Millen to Pattison
1992: UW 34, Michigan 14 (Rose Bowl)	Huskies finish 12-0 season with national title
1993: Michigan 38, UW 31 (Rose Bowl)	Wheatley ran for touchdowns of 88, 56 and 24 yards
2001 — at UW 23, Michigan 18	Omari Lowe blocks FG and has the pick-6
2002 — at Michigan 31, UW 29	Philip Brabbs kicks FG 44 yards at 0:00
2021 – at Michigan 31, UW 10	Blake Corum runs for 171 yards, 3 touchdowns
2024 – Michigan 34, UW 13 (CFP)	Edwards ran for 41, 46 touchdowns and the national title

Seventy-one years ago, they met for the first time in Ann Arbor for what would be the most lopsided game of the series, a 50-0 victory for the Maize and the Blue. The Huskies, 14.5 point underdogs, couldn’t pass midfield until the start of the second quarter, lost 3 fumbles and intercepted 3 passes. Michigan’s well-oiled football machine used 10 different people to run the ball 345 yards, with no one gaining more than 65.

We can divide this intersectional series three ways: Michigan won the first four outings in dominant fashion, collectively outscoring UW 126-10; Don James’ teams won four of the next six, including two in the Rose Bowl and UW’s lone victory in Ann Arbor; and the Wolverines have turned everything around in their favor by winning the last three games, including the national title last January.

The Husky’s most memorable victory over Michigan was their first in the 1978 Rose Bowl, when a 7-4 UW team defeated the 10-1 Wolverines chasing another national championship. James went all out, starting with a fourth down pass from the punter for a first down as his team took a 24-0 advantage and held on. Last-minute interceptions from Michael Jackson and Nesby Glasgow kept things going. President Gerald Ford, a former Michigan player, was in attendance, as Secret Service agents pushed people to the Husky sidelines to escort him into the fourth quarter.

The greatest play of this series had to come in 1983 – a two-point conversion pass from Steve Pelluer to tight end Larry Michael for the winning points in a 25-24 decision with the clock stopped at 34 seconds to go. END. That completed a stunning UW comeback from a 24-10 deficit early in the fourth quarter that sent many heading for the exits.

Washington vs. Michigan 2001

#11 Michigan lined up to kick a FG with 9 minutes left in an effort to take a 15-6 lead…UW’s Omare Lowe had other plans, creating 2 down scores by a minute for a superb victory for the Husky.

Michigan returns to Husky Stadium in September pic.twitter.com/uhRIVEY72D

– WestCoastCFB (@WestCoastCFB) April 6, 2020

The biggest game in the series was having the national title on the line 10 months ago at NRG Stadium in Houston, with both teams coming in with a 14-0 record. The Huskies trailed only 20-13 early in the fourth quarter before losing 34-13.

As crazy as this series has been at times, the Huskies, with an almost entirely new team with only one returning starter from the title game, find themselves listed as 2.5-point favorites by one oddsmaker. After all, Michigan hasn’t played Montlake in 23 years. Anything goes when the Wolverines and UW face off.

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