Washington Football: Stanford upset boots Huskies from Playoff hunt

Washington football suffered a painful road loss against Stanford on Friday night. Are the Pac-12 College Football Playoff hopes officially dead?

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The Huskies entered Friday night’s game as the last man standing in the Pac-12’s College Football Playoff hunt. After stumbling against Arizona State a few weeks ago the team bounced back with big wins over UCLA and Oregon. They over

Stanford, since dropping two of their first three games, had gone on a bit of a wining streak. That ended with a three-point loss to Washington State in Week 10, but Stanford had definitely shown improvement as the season went on.

That set up an intriguing matchup on Friday night. Washington took an early lead on a pair of Myles Gaskin touchdown runs. Yet after the 11:37 mark in the second quarter the Huskies scored just eight points. Stanford executed their gameplan perfectly and kept Jake Browning off the field. The Cardinal won the time of possession battle, controlling the ball for 36:05 on their way to a 30-22 upset of the ninth ranked team in the nation.

Here are three takeaways from Stanford’s massive upset of Washington in Week 11.