Washington fans sure are confident.. to say the least.

I had pretty much the same experience. The dicks behind us kept saying condescending stuff like that our stadium was “cute”. My girlfriend at the time claimed that they were being crude with her, fortunately they left at halftime. And those old uppity bitches wearing buttons that said, “What’s a Ute?” might have been cute in 7th grade.

Funny thing is, after the Utah game last year the vast majority of them were calling for Peterson head. Brilliant fan base they have there.

Regarding the UW/UU game last year, that one was a tough one to swallow for a lot of UW fans over the fact that (at least from our vantage point…I’m sure you guys would disagree), the refs cost us the game. Honestly, I can’t remember having left a stadium feeling that screwed by the refs in a long time. Considering you were ranked #13 at the time, that was a tough one for UW fans and I’m sure the boards reflected that.

For the game Saturday, I’d say most are cautiously optimistic. If UW plays to our potential (which is a big IF with the MUSS and all that noise), we should win by a few scores. Neither UW nor UU have really played anyone all that noteworthy nor had any overly impressive wins against top teams, but from an “eye test”, UW is just the superior team at pretty much every position group. The rankings reflect that.

Honestly, I’m glad Joe Williams had a big game against UCLA because that will be a wake-up call for our run D. I’d bet our game plan on defense is to force Troy Williams to win the game with his arm. A lot of UW fans last year felt he got a raw deal as his only start was against ASU in a wind/rain storm. But in hindsight, he made the right move by transferring as he’d be buried in the depth now. He just doesn’t fit what Pete wants to do schematically.

This season UW has outscored opponents 200-24 in the first half. I think this game will be competitive into the fourth quarter as UU is definitely the best team we’ve played so far. I’d say final score is probably UW 38-24 or so.

They were very nice to us last year.  I am sure their student section is a bit different than where we sat though.

Washington’s DL is very over-rated. They are good, no doubt, but not elite like they are painted out to be. 

We need Zach Moss or Howard this game…a big back who can come in and get three yards a pop. Wear that defense down. 

If we don’t give up the big plays and keep the game close, we can wear them down and beat them in the fourth quarter. 

If we give up big plays and allow them to get a two score lead that forces us to throw the ball…it could turn into 2015 Utah vs USC really quick. 

to all the people saying that washington hasn’t been “tested” neither has Utah. You play who’s on your schedule, and outside of a bad game at Arizona (who they overcame a number of flukey plays to win added to the fact that Utah also didn’t look all that impressive at home against them) washington has pounded every other team on their schedule, it’s been 30-0 at halftime or close to that.

Utah’s best opponent has been USC, who was 1-3 after that game after being pounded by a Stanford team that is apparently “bad” according to some on this forum. Utah barely beat BYU at home, who sucks. They gave up 45 points to UCLA’s backup QB, who sucks, they barely beat Oregon State (albeit in bad weather) who UW was up 31-0 on at halftime last week.
Washington is probably 2 TD’s better than Utah on a neutral field, now Utah is at home so weird things can happen and Utah can absolutely win. But pretending like Utah’s talent is comparable and UW has just been beating up on bad teams is simply not the case

My dad (yeah yeah, which one, hardy har har) told me that in all his life the worst fans he ever encountered were BYU fans in the 1980’s.

They haven’t gotten any better.