Meanwhile, On Montlake

SUNDAY
The situation is bleak in Seattle. Not only did the Huskies fail to score a single point in their game yesterday against Stanford...more telling, Washington never moved the ball past the opponent's 42-yard line.

No numbers better illustrate the futility of this offense right now.

Not the 107 total yards, the fewest gained since 1973.

Not the 0 points, the first time UW was shut out at home since a 7-0 loss to California in 1976.

Steve Kelley, writing for the Seattle Times, reflects on the lack of forward progress:

Steve Sarkisian was supposed to change all of this quickly. He was supposed to restore order to Washington football. Make the Huskies players again on the national scene. Return pride to a program that was crumbling like its antiquated stadium.

Remember when Washington coach Sarkisian proclaimed after last season's stirring upset of USC that rebuilding this moribund program wasn't going to take long?

Breaking news: It's going to be a long time.

In fact, the Huskies seem to be regressing.

This 41-0 loss to Stanford was Willingham Redux. The Huskies played without fire. They made the same mistakes in this lopsided loss they made earlier this season at BYU and against Nebraska.

Games as bad as Saturday's aren't supposed to happen anymore. These types of losses were supposed to be part of Washington's ugly past. Not the present.

Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times shares his disbelief in the state of the program:

The one thing you thought you knew about this team heading into the season was that it would be able to score points on anybody, with a fifth-year, potential high-draft choice QB returning, an above average running back (and an above average newcomer at that same spot), an overall good receiving corps, and a veteran offensive line (as I detailed during the summer, UW's OL this year had more returning starts than any Husky OL in two decades)."

"Frankly, in July if you'd said Stanford would score 41 and gain 470 yards, as it did today, that wouldn't have necessarily surprised me. But that UW wouldn't ever mount one drive that turned into a legitimate scoring threat? That obviously is a shock.