Players on the Washington defense pose at media day on Saturday ahead of the Huskies’ College Football Playoff championship game against Michigan on Monday. Washington will play in the final football game involving a Pac-12 team. (Godofredo A. Vasquez / Associated Press)
As the Washington Huskies surveyed the scene at the College Football Playoff media day inside Houston’s downtown convention center, you couldn’t have blamed them for feeling a bit as if they were straddling two worlds.
The Big Ten Network was broadcasting the event live from the biggest set (naturally), adorned with the famed Michigan block ‘M’ on each side. The Wolverines, who had just left the building to rabid applause from their fans, will be a conference opponent for Washington next October in Seattle. Saturday morning seemed like something of a sneak preview of the Huskies’ future life.
Yet, it was hard to forget the recent past. As of late July, Washington’s players did not know what league they would be calling home in the fall of 2024. Yet , despite all of that, they showed no confusion about whom they are representing in Monday night’s national championship game.
“It’s super weird,” Washington linebacker Edefuan Ulofoshio said. “It doesn’t even feel real because we’re not disbanding as a university; we’re just going to the Big Ten. It’s kind of sad. The Pac-12 had a lot of great traditions. It’s a place that means the world to me. I love the Pac-12. I would have my kids play in the Pac-12.”
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Ulofoshio’s theoretical children won’t have that chance, along with any other kids who grow up on the West Coast with ambitions to play big-time college football.
Washington will play the last Pac-12 football game in history, and,…
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Publish date : 2024-01-07 12:00:07
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