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Let's start with the first reaction of Steve Sarkisian, the victorious young coach who bested his mentor, restored Husky pride and rattled the nation during one seismic, seminal, sensational afternoon.
"Wow," Sark said.
Remarkably, that little word managed to contain this enormous feat.
The University of Washington football team, which had lost 15 consecutive games just nine days ago, defeated No. 3 (like, in the whole country, dude) USC 16-13 at Husky Stadium on Saturday.
Wow.
The Huskies won with quarterback Jake Locker delivering the first game-winning fourth-quarter drive of his college career.
Wow.
In one game, they punctuated their rapid return to significance, altered conservative preseason predictions of four or five victories...
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