All the omens were lined up perfectly, a Huskies team on the rise and an Oregon club on the decline. Instead, after the Ducks’ 26-20 win, it was merely more pain, more agony, more questions, more moments to look back upon with a grimace for the Huskies and their fans.
It’s got to end sometime, this cruel and unusual punishment that Oregon bestows annually on Washington’s football team.
Theoretically, anyway. Just talk to Cubs fans, who have felt that same sense of unrequited yearning for 107 years. Washington still has 95 years to go to match that futility, plenty of time for a shift of fortunes.