An important part of engineering a successful college football season is finding ways to secure victory when your team isn’t playing at its best. Thankfully, Chris Petersen’s staff was able to do just that Saturday when the Washington Huskies took down the Colorado Buffaloes 27–13 in an afternoon game at Husky Stadium.
This was perhaps Washington’s ugliest game of the season; certainly, it was the ugliest game in which they’ve won a two-score victory. Despite ending five of their 10 offensive drives in punts or turnovers and missing their star tailback for the first time in his career, the Dawgs found a path to victory and now control their destiny in the Pac-12 North thanks to Oregon’s Saturday evening loss to Wazzu.