Inside The Huskies

Night Kickoff Set for Arizona-Washington Football Game

The Huskies draw a bye after traveling to the desert.
Dan Raley|
Night Kickoff Set for Arizona-Washington Football Game
Night Kickoff Set for Arizona-Washington Football Game

In this story:

Washington Huskies

Over consecutive weekends, the University of Washington football team will be keeping late hours, kicking off against Arizona in Tucson at 7 p.m. on Sept. 30.

The game in the desert will be shown over Pac-12 Networks

The eighth-ranked Huskies (3-0) meet the Wildcats (2-1) in a night game after hosting the California Bears (2-1) this Saturday with a 7:30 p.m. kickoff in Montlake arranged to appease an ESPN TV broadcast.

The good news is this UW team, after a couple of late-night outings, will have plenty of time to catch up on its rest. 

The Huskies draw a bye the following week of Oct. 2-8 before facing the Oregon Ducks in its rivalry game at home.

The UW last played at Arizona in 2021, beating the Wildcats 21-16 on Dylan Morris' 8-yard touchdown pass to Rome Odunze with 6:44 left to play.

A lot has happened to the program since them. Two weeks later, the Huskies went into a program meltdown with coach Jimmy Lake getting suspended and then fired. 

Kalen DeBoer since has resurrected the UW into a football powerhouse by winning 14 of 16 games since he took over as coach, including last week's 41-7 victory at Michigan State.

This time, the Huskies will meet up again with former UW linebacker Daniel Heimuli, who transferred to Arizona after getting into trouble and drawing a suspension from DeBoer's coaching staff. 

Go to si.com/college/washington to read the latest Inside the Huskies stories — as soon as they’re published. Not all stories are posted on the fan sites.

Find Inside the Huskies on Facebook by searching: Inside Huskies/FanNation at SI.com or https://www.facebook.com/dan.raley.12

Follow Dan Raley of Inside the Huskies on Twitter: @DanRaley1 or @UWFanNation or @DanRaley3

Have a question, direct message me on Facebook or Twitter.

Loading recommendations... Please wait while we load personalized content recommendations

Published
Dan Raley
DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

Home/Football