Washington football rolled to a relatively easy Pac-12 win over Oregon behind the theatrics of Dante Pettis‘ record setting day.
Washington 8-1 (5-1 Pac-12) entered their Week 10 game against the Oregon Ducks with College Football Playoff aspirations. They took care of their business, winning in dominant fashion. They racked up plenty of style points and kept the Ducks out of the endzone.
Oregon 5-5 (2-5) falls back to the bottom of the Pac-12 North. The Ducks will not be contending for a conference championship this year and they’ll have two more home games left to earn their sixth win and bowl eligibility.
Here are three things we learned from Washington’s win over Oregon in Week 10.
3. Washington is still alive in the Playoff hunt
The Top 4 of last week’s College Football Playoff rankings all won on Saturday. While there likely won’t be shakeup at the top there were several Top 10 teams that fell. That includes both Ohio State and Penn State leaving undefeated Wisconsin as the Big Ten’s best chance at the Playoff.
Georgia and Alabama might very well make the SEC the first conference to send two teams to the Playoff. The ACC will be a two team race between Miami and Clemson. It’s going to take a perfect finish by Oklahoma, and maybe some help, for the Big 12 to break through. The Huskies find themselves in the same position as the Sooners.
At this point the Huskies are in the conversation. A conference championship will put them right in the thick of things, and that’s where they want to be. Don’t count the Pac-12 out just yet.