Before the game most of the predictions I heard and talking heads I listened to epected the Tigers to win but thought UW would test our D. That didn't happen in fact we stuffed them and the vaunted Pac 12 offense with quality QB & receivers only threatened when ODBjr fumbled the opening KO. Now is that because we are amazingly stout or was WU's offense overrated? What say you all?
Very overrated. Although, here is the trick to beating LSU, and any other team with our kind of defense. If we can make you one dimensional we will destroy you. If we can nullify your run game without stacking the box, your QB has pretty much no chance if we want to dial up the pressure. Bama is the same way. That's why we have an advantage over Bama this year. Lacy will not cause us to stack the box, whereas between Hilliard, Blue, Ware, Copeland, etc etc they are going to need to stack the box. So Mett should be able to get some good passing in, whereas McCarron should have more pressure on him. Which QB will step it up, my money is on Mett.
I think UW is about as good as Michigan. Head to head, I'd give Michigan a slight edge, but it would basically be a toss up as to who would win.
I think it would be a toss up, too. Michigan was rated as they were because they were playing Bama in Jerry World week one. If there was ever a case for ceasing pre-season polls, Arkansas' blowing of a 21-point 2nd half lead to ULM would be fodder for doing away with them.
I agree pre-season polls should be ceased. Polls should not come out until the fouth week of the season.
If I remember from the "also receiving votes" section of the polls, the Coaches had Washington at 26, the AP had Washington at 30, and CBS had Washington at 27. Don't judge them too harshly by how they looked last Saturday. Most of the rest of the 25-30 range probably has nightmares about coming into Tiger Stadium at night when LSU is fired up as well.
UW players reaction to being blown out by LSU: "The final score, it doesn't reflect how we are as a team," said safety Sean Parker. "I don't feel like they are 38 points better than us. But we learn from things like that." "Definitely frustrating," said UW senior cornerback Desmond Trufant. "You never want to get blown out; nobody wants to get blown out. We're better than that." "I think it's crazy," quarterback Keith Price said. "Stuff happens. It's only the second game, so we just have to keep putting gas in the motor." Sarkisian said after the game, "all this is (just) one of 13 games," — the reference to a 13th game meaning a postseason game, as UW has just 12 on its schedule. the Seattle Times wrote: "LSU certainly looked like a team capable of again playing for the national title with a clinical beatdown of the Huskies."
Sports Illustrated: LSU made Washington look like a cupcake in a 41-3 win. The Huskies may as well have been Savannah State ... Their only points came after...a gift fumble by LSU's Odell Beckham Jr on the opening kickoff. Even though they start a future high-round draft pick at quarterback, they never sniffed the end zone again. But here's the thing. Washington is a good -- or at the very least adequate -- Pac-12 team. Against almost anyone else, the Huskies would have competed or at least kept things respectable. LSU is a different animal, though. That animal is a tiger, and simply bringing a live big cat to practice, as Huskies coach Steve Sarkisian did this week, doesn't adequately simulate LSU. To provide the proper look, Sarkisian would have had to ask his offensive linemen to block the tiger.
