Pac-12 Football 2017: 5 teams on upset alert in Week 6
By Zach Bigalke
Washington has huge hopes of returning to the College Football this year, and nobody has really had an answer for stopping the Huskies offense yet in 2017. Jake Browning is slowly improving his numbers while Myles Gaskin and Dante Pettis continue to generate big yardage in multiple ways.The result has been five straight victories to start the year by the defending Pac-12 champs.
This week, the Huskies stay at home to face California in Seattle. The Golden Bears have fallen against USC and Oregon over the past fortnight of college football. But this is the same team that started the year 3-0 with big wins over North Carolina and Ole Miss, and Justin Wilcox takes Cal north this weekend looking to play spoiler.
Cal is the top team in the Pac-12 North at generating turnovers, with seven interceptions and five fumble recoveries at this point of the year. Washington has been good at protecting the football, but against the Golden Bears they could cough up the rock a few times.
Playing at home, Washington enters Saturday as nearly a four-touchdown favorite. While Cal will have a tough time taking down the Huskies, they have also been far better than the oddsmakers are giving them credit. If the Huskies aren’t careful, they could suffer their first loss of the season in Pac-12 play.