Big Ten · Jedd Fisch, year 3 (17-11) · Husky Stadium · 70,138 · 66,604 avg in 2026
LastW 16–14 vs Utah State · Sat Sep 12 · Alex McLaughlin 2 sacks, 2 TFL, 1 INT
Nextvs Eastern Washington · Sat Sep 19 · 7:15 pm ET · Husky Stadium · series 3-0, won the last 3 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 6 | #26 | #43 | -23.5✗ | Washington State | W 24–10 120 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #25 | #56 | -28.5✗ | Utah State | W 16–14 132 | 2-0 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Sep 19 | #28 | #177 | Eastern Washington | ||||
| 4 | Sep 26 | #29 | #41 | Minnesota | ||||
| 5 | Oct 3 | @USC | ||||||
| 6 | Oct 10 | Iowa | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | @Purdue | ||||||
| 9 | Oct 31 | @Nebraska | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 7 | Penn State | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 14 | @Michigan State | ||||||
| 12 | Nov 21 | Indiana | ||||||
| 13 | Nov 28 | @Oregon |
| Date | Opp | Result | Yds | TO | TOP | EPA/play | Success% | Explosive% | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12 | Utah State | W 16–14 | 356 | 0 | 35:05 | +0.053 | 41.6% | 92.6% | |
| Sep 6 | Washington State | W 24–10 | 402 | 0 | 29:16 | +0.078 | 46.9% | 106.7% | |
| Season average (2 games) | 379 | 0.0 | +0.065 | 44.2% | 99.6% | ||||
Washington played for the national championship one January and then watched the coach, the Heisman quarterback, and half the roster walk out the door — and the program's whole identity now is the bet that the altitude it reached in 2023 was a choice it can make again, not lightning it caught once.
Fans heard their 2023 run reframed the moment DeBoer left — that the season was a fluke of one coach and one quarterback, that the West Coast program would shrink back to the middle. They believe Husk…
The season in chapters
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What it is like to watch them2025 · 9-4 · last season
✓ measured from 13 games · ranks are among Big Ten teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Warming. 7-3 over the last 10, and won the last three.
We took six times the amount of bets on Michigan moneyline compared with Western Michigan
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vs Eastern Washington · at home
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Market outlook
Sportsbook consensus · best odds across multiple books · 2026-09-14
the open questiondoes the recruiting haul translate on the field?
Kodi Greene (OT, #19 nationally) headlines Washington's highest-ranked class since 2019 — a statement in the Pacific Northwest as Jedd Fisch rebuilds with 24% QB production returning and Oregon's top-3 haul looming.
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Zaydrius Rainey-Sale (LB, #100 nationally) headlines Washington's first top-25 class since 2020 — a direct response to Oregon's top-5 haul while Jedd Fisch rebuilds with just 42% production returning.
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Adam Mohammed gets LESS work in the fourth quarter with a lead than his overall workload would predict -- not the trusted closer raw carries might suggest, and what late usage he does get skews toward mop-up duty in blowouts.
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Denzel Boston is a legitimate money-down target -- his 3rd-down conversion rate ranks among the position's best, and his per-target value holds up in that spot too.
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Jonah Coleman does NOT see a usage spike in garbage time -- his workload holds steady regardless of score, and he's also efficient in competitive snaps -- the production isn't just garbage-time padding.
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Denzel Boston is used almost exclusively underneath -- a low share of his targets are downfield shots.
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Dezmen Roebuck is used almost exclusively underneath -- a low share of his targets are downfield shots.
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Jonah Coleman converts 3rd/4th-and-short at a below-average rate.
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Jedd Fisch's third season opens with a 9-4 record and a 0.5-win jump, but the program's uneasy fanbase questions if #24 talent can sustain contender altitude in the Big Ten.
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Outcome band · Washington · 2026
Floor, base and ceiling come from the season-path projection, which plays out conference title games and the CFP — so a ceiling can run past 12 games.
Washington signed a top-23 recruiting class. It is first top-25 recruiting class since 2020. A class in the top 25 means the program competed nationally. Attrition and development are the next story. The bulls are loud — the coverage treats this class as a program-level statement.
The optimistic read: the class is real, the program is a destination again.
The 'rankings don't tell the whole story' counter -- development gaps, position holes still open.
Nothing in our corpus yet — this door stays open for when there is.
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Washington is the Pacific Northwest's argument that contender altitude is a choice, not a geography.
The program ledger
since 2025Washington names three QB starters
Three QBs, zero settled depth chart — Fisch's veterans are selling confidence publicly, but naming a trio of starters is a staff admission that competition hasn't closed yet.
Washington RB likely out for season
Seven draft exits already stressed the depth chart — losing a starting-caliber back before camp opens punches a second hole in a backfield that had no margin for this.
Washington releases depth chart for Apple Cup
Hatchett's the only name ruled out, but with seven players gone to the draft and IOL still the soft spot, every depth chart release this fall is a stress test for Fisch's rebuild.
Fans storm field after upset
Storming the field in the Big Ten era — Fisch has this fanbase believing again, and after seven draft exits gutting the roster, that emotional investment is the program's most underrated recruiting tool right now.
Washington hires Alex Kline as GM
Fisch builds the front office around a roster that lost seven to the draft — Kline's GM role is infrastructure for a program that finally has the class rank (#13) to demand it.
Player cleared to return
Seven draft exits and IOL pressure already on the board — a cleared player returning to that roster isn't a feel-good story, it's Fisch plugging a hole he couldn't afford to leave open heading into Big Ten play.
Top 3 commits
Recruiting Footprint · 2026
CA leads the 2026 class with 8 commits. National footprint reaching 12 states.
Where they recruit · 2023-2026
102 signees across 20 states, 2023-2026. CA leads the pull.
Miles from home · 2026 roster
The median Washington player grew up 952 miles from campus.
Half this roster came from closer than that; half came from farther.
Straight-line distance from each player's listed hometown to Husky Stadium. Hometowns are placed at city-centroid precision, not street address — fine at this scale, but a player's true door-to-door number can differ by a few miles. 99 of 101 listed players have a geocoded hometown. Source: CFBD roster hometowns.
Top r/cfb community posts · last 12 months
Fan confidence lower than any point since 2020
9th percentile among FBS programs
34 of 68 AP voters have them ranked, AP ballot, week 3 (2026) — from #14, Stephen Means (Cleveland.com), to #25, Michael Katz (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal). 34 voters left them off the ballot entirely.
Individual AP Top 25 ballots, AP ballot, week 3, 2026 — 68 voters tracked.
Converting 36% of pass disruptions into takeaways — well above the ~18% league rate.
5 interceptions of 14 disrupted passes (9 deflected, 5 intercepted), 2026 only.
Losing the penalty battle: 18 penalties committed vs. 11 drawn on opponents, a 89-yard deficit.
174 penalty yards committed vs. 85 drawn on opponents, 2026 season total.
Outcome band · Washington · 2026
Recruiting Footprint · 2026