“There’s nothing so rare in college football as a truly even matchup between teams with legitimate aspirations of competing for a national title, which explains why tomorrow’s game between Washington and Auburn feels so momentous.”
So I wrote just 10 weeks ago on the eve of the Chick-Fil-A kickoff game, when the Washington Huskies hoped to vault themselves into the inside track to the College Football Playoff and mark a special season in Jake Browning and Myles Gaskin’s senior year. Instead, the Dawgs now own three losses on the season and have dropped from the AP poll for the first time since the final week of 2015.