Washington Huskies: An Updated Historical Perspective

This is kind of lazy. I did this same post before last year’s Husky game. But seeing as how nothing has changed with the team’s results, why should my content? Special thanks to jhowell.net for having an unmatched database of information that allows me to check data all the way back to 1916.

• Last losing season prior to the current run: 1976
• Last consecutive losing seasons: 1973-74
• Years it took to achieve 5 total losing seasons before 2004-08: 36 (1968-2003)
• Since 1916, percentage of overall losing seasons the 2004-08 run has accounted for: 20.83%
• Previous long for consecutive losing seasons: 3, 1947-49
• Number of teams not named Oregon State to ever go an entire Pac-10 season (since 1978) without a conference win: 3 – Washington State in 1998, Cal in 2001 and Washington in 2004 and 2008
• Number of teams not named Oregon State to do it twice: 1 – Washington, 2004 and 2008
  Note: Oregon State is an entirely different story with 7 such seasons.
  
• Number of Pac-10 teams since the conference was expanded in 1978 to go an entire season without a win: 2 – Oregon State in 1980 and Washington in 2008.
  
• Until 2003 and 2008 when no Huskies were selected, last season that Washington didn’t have a player drafted to the NFL: 1960
• Last time Washington lost 5 consecutive games to Oregon: Never. The most was 4 straight from 1928-31.
• Last time Washington lost 6 consecutive games to Oregon: 2004-October 24, 2009 (call me clairvoyant)
• Chance my future kid will ever know the Huskies were any good: 2.54%
• Chance my grandpa knows the Huskies were good: 100%
  
• Number of times Kenny Wheaton’s interception in 1994 has been played on jumbotrons, laptops, desktops, ringtones, radio and television: 6,263,817,485 (It took exhaustive research, but this is an exact number)
• Ratio of obnoxious Husky fans to pleasant ones from 1977-2003: 234,089/.002
• Ratio of obnoxious Husky fans to pleasant ones from 2003-present: There’s a faint pulse on this number that doesn’t quite register, but it’s getting close to exploding again.
  
• Number of times I’ve now used this blog post: 2

Wow, that really was lazy. I didn’t even bother to change the jokes. Hey, give me a break, I have a real job, people!