Huskies To Make First-Ever Journey To Maryland

THE GAME: The Washington soccer staff (3-1 general, 0-1 Big Ten) makes its first-ever journey to face Maryland (4-0, 1-0) this Saturday at SECU Stadium. The sport is scheduled for a 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT kickoff, and can air on the Big Ten Network. The Huskies and Terrapins have met simply as soon as, within the 1982 Aloha Bowl, a 21-20 Husky victory. The sport will mark the Huskies second in a row (and second of 5 this season) vs. a staff coming off of a bye week. Following the journey east, the Huskies return to Seattle to face Rutgers in a Friday evening sport, at 6:00 p.m. on Oct. 10.

QUICK HITTERS: Husky RB Jonah Coleman leads the nation in scoring (15.0 factors per sport), dashing touchdowns (9), and touchdowns (10) … he’s second solely to Hawai’i’s kicker in whole factors (62 to 60) … Coleman additionally ranks No. 4 in all-purpose yards and No. 9 in dashing … he has new profession highs for makes an attempt (24 vs. Colo. St.), dashing  TDs (5 vs. UC Davis) and receiving yards (104 vs. WSU) this 12 months … Husky QB Demond Williams Jr. is at present fourth within the nation in yards per try and completion share, seventh in cross effectivity … Washington already has 106 yards in punt returns this season … final 12 months, in 13 video games, Washington compiled simply 93 punt return yards … Washington has scored on 25 of 37 possessions this season, and that 37 consists of three possessions during which UW took a knee to finish a half or a sport … the Huskies scored a landing on 12 staight possessions over video games two and three and scored (TD or FG) on 17 in a row … as a staff, Washington ranks No. 4 in FBS in third-down share (.609) and No. 8 in turnover margin (+1.25 per sport) … UW has only one turnover this 12 months, on a mishandled snap within the season opener … Washington has outscored opponents 52-10 within the fourth quarter this season … the present UW roster consists of gamers who record hometowns from 19 completely different states, in addition to in Australia and Canada … UW’s 103-man roster consists of 47 gamers who’re of their first season as a Husky, and (together with these 47), 77 who’re of their first or second 12 months within the Purple and Gold … whereas final season, the opening-day Husky roster didn’t embody a single offensive lineman who’d ever began a sport for Washington, this season’s roster included seven such o-linemen.

TELEVISION: The UW-Maryland sport will air on Big Ten Network, with Guy Haberman, Jake Butt and Brooke Fletcher on the decision. For extra on the best way to watch on-line, www.foxsports.com/dwell/btn.

RADIO: All Washington soccer video games will air on the Washington Sports Network from Learfield, with Tony Castricone (play by play), former Husky tight finish Cameron Cleeland (analyst) and former UW basketball participant Elise Woodward (sidelines) on the decision. Radio protection begins 4 hours earlier than kickoff on the community’s flagship station – Seattle’s SportsRadio KJR 93.3 FM – with “Husky Gameday” dwell from The Zone for Husky house video games. Statewide protection on the 17-station Washington Sports Network begins two hours earlier than kickoff. The total broadcast is on the market worldwide on the Huskies Gameday cellular app and the Varsity app. The UW broadcast of this sport may also air on Sirius/XM channel 381 (on the app). Additionally, the Husky Football Coach’s Show airs every game-week Monday throughout the season at 6:00 p.m. PT, dwell from JOEY Kitchen in University Village.

GRADUATES: A complete of 12 Huskies head into the 2025 season already having earned their undergraduate diploma, whether or not from UW or from one other college earlier than transferring to UW. Here’s the record: CJ Christian (S), Zach Durfee (DE), Makell Esteen (S), Geirean Hatchett (OL), Milton Hopkins (DE), Deshawn Lynch (DL), Dyson McCutcheon (S), Quentin Moore (TE), Simote Pepa (DL), Logan Sagapolu (DL), Anthony Ward (LB), Carver Willis (OL).

ACADEMIC SUCCESS: Following the newest educational quarter (spring, 2025), the UW soccer program posted some spectacular outcomes. The Husky soccer staff’s cumulative GPA for the quarter was 3.27, highest ever in program historical past. Additionally, 26 soccer gamers made the Dean’s record, together with the next 22 present staff members: Xe’Ree Alexanders, Deven Bryant, Jonah Coleman, Elinneus Davis, Decker DeGraaf, Kade Eldridge, Jonathan Epperson Jr., Omari Evans, Luke Gayton, Zachary Henning, Luke Luchini, Jacob Manu, Dyson McCutcheon, Paul Mencke Jr., John Mills, Ephesians Prysock, Jack Shaffer, Austin Simmons, Anterio Thompson, Rainen Vines-Bright, Beck Walker and Demond Williams Jr.

IN THE CFP ERA: The period of the four-team College Football Playoff is gone, however that 10-season stretch (2014-2023) is instructive by way of illustrating the groups that operated on the prime stage of the game throughout that timespan, and Washington is a type of groups. Over that 10-year stretch, solely 15 completely different packages earned a berth within the CFP semifinals, and solely eight reached the event greater than as soon as. With two CPF berths within the four-team period (2016 and 2023), Washington is a type of eight. Only six groups made greater than two appearances: Alabama (8), Clemson (6), Ohio State (5), Oklahoma (4), Georgia (3) and Michigan (3). For what it is price, six extra groups made their CFP debut within the 12-team bracket in 2024, however UW stays certainly one of (now) 10 groups to have appeared within the CFP greater than as soon as, when counting the 2024 knowledge.

B1G TIME: As has been nicely documented during the last couple of years, Washington formally joined the Big Ten Conference forward of the 2024-25 college 12 months, efficient on Aug. 2, 2024. The Huskies had been joined be fellow former Pac-12 packages Oregon, UCLA and USC in making the transfer to the B1G, which now consists of 18 faculties. Washington was certainly one of 4 founding members of the Pacific Coast Conference (together with Cal, Oregon and Oregon State), and, together with Cal, was certainly one of simply two groups that had been part of that league (which modified names to the AAWU, Pac-8, Pac-10 and Pac-12) for the whole lot of its full-fledged existence from 1915 to 2024.

FUTURE SCHEDULES: In October, 2023, the Big Ten revealed 18 soccer groups’ house and away, convention opponents for the subsequent for the next 5 seasons (2024-28). Here are the UW’s house and street, Big Ten video games, for the approaching three years:

2026: house – Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Penn State; street – Michigan State, Nebraska, Oregon, Purdue, USC
2027: house – Maryland, Michigan State, Nebraska, Oregon, USC; street – Minnesota, Northwestern, Penn State, Rutgers
2028: house – Michigan, Northwestern, UCLA, Wisconsin; street – Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio State, Oregon

HUSKIES vs. TERRAPINS HISTORY: Washington and Maryland have confronted each other solely as soon as within the two packages’ histories. That one sport got here within the inaugural Aloha Bowl at Aloha Stadium in Christmas Day, 1982. Washington’s hopes of a Pac-10 title and a visit to the Rose Bowl had crashed within the Apple Cup, with a 24-20 loss at Washington State, and a Husky staff that had spent six weeks at No. 1 within the nation earlier than a loss at Stanford in late October, discovered themselves sure for Honolulu. Maryland, below first-year head coach Bobby Ross, completed the common season 8-3, with solely a two-point loss to Clemson late within the season separating the Terps from the Atlantic Coast Conference title. Maryland entered the sport ranked No. 16, whereas Washington was No. 9 within the remaining regular-season AP ballot.

The Huskies gained the sport, 21-20, behind primarily a 350-yard passing efficiency from quarterback Tim Cowan, who threw the profitable landing cross to Anthony Allen, an 11-yard strike, with simply 11 seconds left within the sport.

Washington opened the sport with a 27-yard TD cross from Cowan to Allen, however Maryland, behind future NFL MVP Boomer Esiason, scored on a six-yard cross early within the second quarter. However, the PAT kick missed, leaving the Huskies up by a degree.

Washington headed to halftime with a 14-6 benefit after the second of three Cowan-to-Allen TDs, this one a 71-yarder. In the third quarter, a 28-yard TD cross from Esiason to Jeff Tice minimize the Husky result in 14-12, with a two-point PAT failing. A two-yard run from John Nash 4:14 into the fourth quarter (and a profitable two-point conversion) made it a 20-14 Maryland lead.

After a missed, 32-yard discipline aim try by Maryland with lower than 4 minutes left within the sport, the Huskies took the ball for the game-winning possession. Cowan ran or handed on 15 of the 16 performs of that drive, twice changing on fourth down.

Cowan, the sport’s offense MVP, completed the sport 33-for-53 for 350 yards and three touchdowns. His 33 completions and 363 yards of whole offense had been each college information. Allen caught eight passes for 153 yards and three scores. Husky linebacker Tony Caldwell because the defensive MVP.

Esiason was 19-for-32 for 241 yards, one interception and two touchdowns.

HUSKIES IN THE EAST: Washington’s journey to Maryland will mark the Huskies’ fifth-most japanese sport at school historical past, behind solely two video games at Rutgers (2017 and 2024) and two at Syraucuse (1977 and 2007). While the Huskies have performed numerous non-conference video games on the house of Big Ten groups, Washington has performed only a few video games in places that may fairly be thought of the “East Coast.” When the Huskies opened the 2007 season at Syracuse, it marked their easternmost street sport ever to that time limit (it was the Dawgs’ second journey to play the Orange as in addition they performed there in 1977), as Syracuse is, by way of its longitude, east of each Durham, N.C. (the place the UW performed Duke in 1973), and Miami, Fla. (the place the Huskies have performed vs. Miami and within the Orange Bowl sport), the subsequent two closest rivals for the Huskies’ easternmost video games of all time. College Park, Md., is a little more than two levels of longitude fruther east than Piscataway. and somewhat below one diploma east of Syracuse. For what it is price, solely three FBS packages are west of UW: Oregon, Oregon State and Hawai’i.

ROSTER TURNOVER: Like at lots of packages nowadays of school soccer, Washington’s roster has seen a great deal of turnover in the previous few years, unsurprisingly, provided that UW has had 4 head coaches in seven years. However, by way of class years, the 2025 Husky soccer roster is comparatively balanced. At the beginning of the season, UW’s 103-man roster consists of 29 true freshmen, 15 redshirt freshmen, 19 sophomores, 18 juniors, and 22 seniors. However, making an allowance for what number of years gamers have been at UW offers a distinct image, as 77 of the 103 are enjoying their first (47) or second (30) at Washington in 2025. UW’s roster additionally consists of 14 third-year Huskies, seven fourth-year (together with Anthony Ward, who spent two years at UW earlier than going to Arizona for 2 seasons), 4 fifth-year (together with Geirean Hatchett, who spent final season at Oklahoma), and one sixth-year roster member (Makell Esteen, whose first 12 months at Washington was 2020).

STARTING EXPERIENCE: For the second 12 months in a row, it is truthful to say that UW didn’t return a lot of starters from the earlier 12 months. However, the Husky roster DOES embody a surprisingly giant variety of gamers with beginning expertise – almost all from final 12 months. Not counting specialists (Grady Gross has been UW’s “starting kicker” for 2 seasons), and never counting the present Huskies who began for different faculty packages earlier than transferring to UW, Washington had 20 completely different present gamers who had began in a Husky uniform – 12 on offense (whole of 70 UW begins) and eight on protection (32).

In addition to the 20 present participant who had began for Washington, the 2025 Husky roster consists of 21 gamers (a few of them the 20 who’ve since began for UW) who’ve began a minimum of as soon as for one more four-year faculty: LB Buddah Al-Uqdah (21 begins at Washington State), LB Xe’ree Alexander (7 at UCF, 6 at Idaho), OL Drew Azzopardi (6 at San Diego State), S CJ Christian (19 at FIU), RB Jonah Coleman (7 at Arizona), Tacario Davis (22 at Arizona), Zach Durfee (11 at Sioux Falls), TE Kade Eldridge (1 at USC), WR Omari Evans (6 at Penn State), WR Kevin Green Jr. (2 at Arizona), OL Geirean Hatchett (1 at Oklahoma), QB Kai Horton (1 at Tulane), LB Jacob Manu (27 at Arizona), S Alex McLaughlin (23 at NAU), DL Simote Pepa (3 at Utah), CB Ephesians Prysock (16 at Arizona), DL Logan Sagapolu (1 at Miami, Fla.), DL Anterio Thompson (12 at WMU), DL Ta’ita’I Uiagalelei (13 at Arizona), EDGE Isaiah Ward (11 at Arizona), and OL Carver Willis (18 at Kansas State).

All totaled, as of the beginning of the 2025 season, UW had 33 completely different gamers with a mixed whole of 330 profession begins on the four-year faculty stage.