It was the most thrilling, explosive and delightful football game you'll ever watch.
It was the most defensively inept, too.
Washington did its part Thursday night and joined Baylor in making the Alamo Bowl the wildest party of college football's postseason. After 123 combined points, 1,397 combined yards and incredible, superhuman feats from both quarterbacks, great fun was had by all. But it's the Huskies who will suffer the harshest hangover now.
There's only one downside to playing in a 67-56 game that captured the nation's imagination for nearly four crazy hours. And that would be losing a 67-56 game that captured the nation's imagination for nearly four crazy hours. Win a game like this, and the story is your offense's excellence. Lose it, and the...
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