Was it Confucius or Bo Schembechler who once said, “The beauty of a conference road win is in the eye of the beholder?” The sentiment clearly applies to UW’s ugly victory against the once-hapless UCLA Bruins. Was the subpar performance a wake-up call? Did UCLA’s blue chip Bruins suddenly wake up from their hibernation? Do the Dawgs have a tendency to play to the level of their competition? Was UW caught looking ahead to their Duck hunt? Maybe, just maybe, might the Huskies not be the top-10 team the polls say they are?
No matter how you look at the narrative of the game, one thing is clear: the Huskies did not play one of their better games in the Rose Bowl.