*** My weekly conversation with Doc’s Sports handicapper Raphael Esparza (@VSIdocsports) is available below. Esparza will join me each week during the season to discuss the top Pac-12 games …
Washington is close … so close … to facing the team it wants in the location it wants with the stakes it wants.
Oregon, in Husky Stadium, for control of the North.
But first, UW must navigate two confounding venues.
To reach the Oct. 19 showdown within one game of/tied with Oregon, the Huskies must win at Stanford and Arizona back-to-back.