Husky Stadium is closing in on the year’s first sellout for what has to be the program’s most important home game since the 2000 Rose Bowl season.
The stage is theirs.
The premier game of the Pac-12 Conference season has arrived, as planned: No. 7 Stanford vs. No. 10 Washington. Friday night. Husky Stadium. Primetime national audience.
The Pac-12 had insisted on the 6 o’clock kickoff time. It will be a nightmare for your commute — intolerable as it already is, it’s about to get worse — but the idea is to give East Coast viewers a prime opportunity to watch Stanford star Christian McCaffrey, who was stiff-armed in his run for the Heisman Trophy last year.