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How Pete Kwiatkowski, UW’s ‘evil genius’ coordinator, built the Huskies into the nation’s No. 1 defense

Chris Petersen has conveniently forgotten his first meeting with his defensive coordinator. It happened on Sept. 14, 1985, before a crowd of 17,654 at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho, a year before that stadium would be decorated with its infamous blue turf.

Petersen was the standout junior quarterback at UC Davis then, and his Aggies were going up against a Boise State defense that featured an undersized sophomore defensive lineman named Pete Kwiatkowski.

Kwiatkowski hasn’t forgotten what happened next. His first sack of the season was a takedown of Petersen, and it aided Boise State in its 13-9 takedown of Davis.