Originally published Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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Nov. 20, 1982: This game, a 24-20 Washington State victory, will always stand as the mother of all upsets in the series. Washington was 9-1, ranked No. 5 in the country, and needed just a win over a reeling 2-7-1 Cougars team to advance to its third straight Rose Bowl. The Huskies were 17-point favorites.
Huskies work overtime (three, actually)
Nov. 23, 2002: The Cougars needed only to beat UW at home to clinch the Pac-10 title. But the Huskies rallied from a 20-10 fourth-quarter deficit to force overtime in an eventual 29-26 victory. WSU's final possession was ended by a controversial call of a "backward" pass on a throw by Matt Kegel.
Cougars pull snow job on Huskies
Nov. 21, 1992: The famous "Snow Bowl" game is more famous for the weather and Drew Bledsoe's amazing ability to throw rainbows into the storm clouds. But it was also one of the bigger upsets in the series as UW — which had won 23 of its past 24 games — was a 14-point favorite. The Cougars won, 42-23.
Did you know?
The Huskies and Cougars have played each other twice in the same season just once, in 1945. That year, the four Northwest schools played home-and-home series against the other three. The Huskies won 6-0 in Seattle, the Cougars won 7-0 in Pullman.
Bob Condotta
Washington and Washington State began playing each other in 1900, and will play for the 100th time on Saturday. A look at the years the teams didn't play:
1905 and 1906: The schools didn't play these two seasons because, according to the book "The Crimson and the Gray," they were "tiffing over some player eligibility matters."
1909: Might not have played due to what was a controversial ending to the 1908 game when WSU scored on a debated safety in the late going to force a tie and end UW's perfect season.
1915-16: UW coach Gil Dobie didn't want to play WSU anywhere but in Seattle. When WSU refused after doing so for four straight seasons, the series took a two-year hiatus. Once Dobie left after the 1916 season (having never played in Pullman and only once in Spokane in nine years as UW coach) the series resumed.
1918: Teams had truncated seasons due to World War I.
1920: No game after the schools could not agree on a proper split of gate receipts. ("The Crimson and Gray" says UW would not agree to a 50-50 split as mandated at the time by Pacific Coast Conference rules.)
1943-44: No games due to World War II (the teams played twice in 1945, the only time they've done that).
Bob Condotta
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