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College football’s unluckiest defense? UW Huskies will ‘continue to do what we’re doing’ to try create more turnovers

Washington's defense is tied for for first nationally with 14 forced fumbles, but their fumble luck seems to have run out. Overall, the Huskies have a minus-4 turnover margin.

The football has always been a funny thing, hasn’t it? The ball has its shape — a prolate spheroid — because that was the natural shape of the inflated pig bladder used to make the first football in the 19th century.

The standard dimensions of an NCAA ball these days: 11 inches long, seven inches wide and 21 inches in diameter. Dropped to the ground, it can do the darndest things.