They will look to get back on track against a Cardinal defense that is allowing 150 yards rushing per game this season. PLAYERS TO WATCH Washington: WR Ja'Lynn Polk had nine catches for 102 yards last week for his fifth 100-yard game of the season. Polk has 41 catches for 688 yards and five TDs this season.
The high-powered offense that carried No. 5 Washington for most of the season went mysteriously missing last week. Michael Penix Jr. and the Huskies didn't manage a single offensive touchdown against Arizona State but still managed to find a way to win and extend the nation's second-longest active winning streak to 14 games. Washington (7-0, 4-0 Pac-12) will try to extend that streak and get back into gear offensively when the Huskies hit the road to face Stanford (2-5, 1-4) on Saturday.
When coach Troy Taylor arrived at Stanford, he knew it would be a challenge to rebuild a program coming off back-to-back three-win seasons. Year one hasn't been smooth so far for Taylor and the Cardinal but they got something positive to build off after last week's school-record comeback from 29 points down to beat Colorado on Joshua Karty's game-winning field goal in double overtime.
Deion Sanders had an uneasy feeling, even up 29-0 at halftime. Maybe not the worst collapse in Colorado history about to unfold uneasy, but uneasy anyway. Stanford coach Troy Taylor didn't really change a thing, just watched as the Cardinal steadily staged the largest comeback in school history.