Washington football has achieved in 2023 what USC football fans have yet to experience in the last 10 years. Washington reached the College Football Playoff, won a semifinal and played for the national championship. USC, in 10 years of playoff competition, has yet to participate in the event. The Trojans won the Rose Bowl in the 2016 season, but were never in true playoff contention due to three losses to start the season. The 2017 team won the Pac-12 championship, but similarly was never a factor in playoff contention after a midseason loss to Notre Dame. The closest the Trojans have come to making the playoffs was in 2022, when they came up short in the Pac-12 Championship Game against Utah in Las Vegas.
These are tough times for USC, but if you think these are bad times for the Trojans, compare this to what Washington Huskies fans endured in 2008. That was the 0-12 season under Ty Willingham. UW has hit rock bottom. Roman Tomashoff is the editor of UW Huskies Wire. He grew up in Los Angeles. He was at the Coliseum for a 56-0 USC victory over that terrible U-Dub team in 2008. USC led 35-0 with nine minutes left before halftime. Tomashoff talked to us about how that miserable 2008 experience made Washington football’s return to prominence all the more enjoyable.
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