Well, there is another way to look at Scott's vote. Even though it's early, the more Pac-10 teams in the top 25, the better for USC.

GO BSU!!!
Should be funny doggies.

Real maturity from the BSU side in most forums I've read. Great example can be seen above. Maybe they wouldnt be so jealous if they attended a real school that provided a good education. The glory days and dominance of washington football will return within the next couple years. The Dawgs are back!

Bob and others,

is the UW-BSU game going to be televised and if so what network

If I read that poll correctly, Scott has us as 4th in the Pac10, trailing Cal and UCLA. Interesting.
Watching the Cal-Tn game, I was impressed with Cal's speed; they have lots o fit.
I am a displaced Va Tech grad, so I watched them vs. ECU; glad they won, but I wouldn't put them at #5 - more like #10, at this time.

Great work in tracking that down, Bob. It can't be a simple as a USC beat writer wanting to over-rate the Pac-10; he did not rank Oregon or ASU. I take it as a compliment and it tells me that he actually watched some of the teams in his poll.

Stilladawg, the game is on FSN.
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Stone, I hadn't thought of it that way, but maybe there's some truth to your theory. Regardless, I would love for the dawgs to get some more attention...it's really hard to follow them on the east coast.
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be back in Seattle for the next 2 games...can't wait. Go Dawgs!

Hey Boise Truth, the Truth is the train left the station and looks like you aren't on board. For you to spend so much time on this blog and have you turn against the DAWGS, it is kind of confusing. Either you're with us or against us, and looks like you are the latter. You are pulling for a Boise win but hope the Dawgs can upset Ohio St.? No true DAWG FAN ever wishes for us to lose. Your little smurfs are going down. No blue turf to hide your blue uniforms. Gadget plays only get you so far. Eventually talent wins out. I hope Ian Johnson has disability insurance because I don't see him walking out of Husky Stadium under his own power. BOW DOWN.

I like dogs, Go fighting Huskies! Rickum, rackum,ruckum, come dogs fight..

The game is on FSN Northwest, live, at 12L30 p.m.

Although I originally picked UW for 2 wins and ND for 5...one game does not a season make...for either team.

Confidence and momentum can go a long way in helping inferior teams win games. Take away the 1% success rate trick plays that all came together for BSU against OKLA and they lose that game by 1-2 touchdowns on a neutral field where most of the fans were rooting for them. That leaves the team with quality wins against Oregon State and Hawaii last season. Both of those wins came at home and the OSU game was the second game of the season; before the beavers figured out how to play football. Now, take away the MVP (Zabranski) and several stars from the team. What you are left with is a team that has to fill several holes and whose conference schedule will never be a true measure of their pedigree. I look at BSU and see a running back who, while he has piled up several hundred yards, will not be a real NFL talent and his teammates are the scraps that the PAC 10 schools wouldn't take. Now, no one knows the future and so we do not know what sort of chemistry and passion UW will bring to this game. But, we do know that we are more talented at virtually every position and that we are at home. And, I have said this before but I will say it again. Jake Locker is a winner. He proved it in high school and again last week. And winners always win games that they should win. Therefore, I see two possible scenarios:
1. The two teams engage in a good old fashioned west coast shootout with BSU having to call on one of its trick plays at the end of the game and it fails. UW 45-BSU 42
2. UW pounds the ball with the running game, controls the clock and beats the smaller, less athletic BSU defense into submission. UW 31-BSU 17
Either way, we win!!

To some of the board:

Hey, lay off of Boise Truth and some others who are probably Boise State grads or live there, but who otherwise are also Husky fans.

Let's try a little maturity here. Think about basketball: there are lots of Gonzaga fans around who also root for Lorenzo's boys, but of course when Gonzaga and the UW play, they will root for Gonzaga. There is nothing odd or wrong about that.

No, it might not meet some of the Husky-Testosterone tests on this board, but I (and many others) am a Husky-first fans going on 47 years as a Dawg fan and Husky alum and Tyee, and it doesn't bother me at all.

It is game week. Show a little understanding and maturity, huh?

GO DAWGS!

It is true that Washington should have better players at almost every position on Saturday. Yet Michigan not only had better players at every position than App State, they had better players on the scout team than started for the guys on the other side. And they still lost. Well run teams with lots of confidence can pull these games out sometimes.

When we played Oklahoma last year they were clearly the better team, and Boise State beat them. Washington is better than it was last year and Boise State is worse. Let's hope those two trajectories converge in a Dawg victory.

Despite all the gloom I still think that in the end home field, newfound confidence, and Jake Locker will result in UW 24 BSU 20. But no one can read the future, so let 'em play.

Nice point Global. My father grew up a Husky fan, got his B.A. there (along with his brothers), and so I was born and raised a Husky fan and got my B.A. there too, but I got my M.A. from Notre Dame and so I root for them too - except when they play each other and I'm hoping for the final score to read Washington 42, Notre Dame 10. It's perfectly understandable for someone to root for a team without it being THE team he roots for.

Unless it is the Ducks.

I can't wait for another Husky victory this Saturday so 'JH' can revise his picks, again, for how many wins we'll have this year. All summer it was "2-11" from him. After last Friday's win he changed it to "3-10." A couple more weekends of this and he might have us picked to have more wins than his beloved ND. Boy, that'll be the day!!

Bob, any news on whether Davenport will be good to go Saturday?

OneToughDawg, why do you assume "BSU" is Boise Truth? Boise Truth is a good guy with great posts.

It's possible to be a Husky fan and still care more about another team. I root for all Pac-10 teams when they aren't playing us (except the Ducks).

Lay off Boise Truth. He is one of the best posters on this blog. Some people have a 1A and 1B. Just happens that his 1A and 1B are playing each other.

Really, lay off Boise Truth. He's a great poster, and if he feels like rooting for Boise this next game (which I don't if its actually true anyway) that's fine. He lives in Boise for craps sake.