The Willingham Death March

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A couple of weeks ago I chronicled how it was annoying to me how much Hype the Notre Dame Schedule was getting and that Oregon's schedule was in fact tougher and was getting absolutely no pub. Well now looking back to that comparison, I was right, but I did miss the boat with the team to compare Notre Dame's Schedule to. I overlooked an obvious comparison, the team that is currently being coached by their last head coach which they unceremoniously dumped. Tyrone Willingham and the Washington Huskies have set up the Death March of College Football Schedules.

Week 1, @Syracuse: Travel Cross Country to play in a Dome against Syracuse. Syracuse isn't very good but typical Big Conference Schools sit at home the entire first two months of the season and bring in cupcakes like Appalach... I mean like Buffalo, Temple, Duke and the Service Academies. Taking a Cross Country Trip the opening week sets up immediate jet lag.

Week 2, Boise St.: Home versus the team with the Longest Winning Streak in College Football and the Perennial Power of non-BCS Conference schools.

Week 3, Ohio St.: Home versus a team coming off of a National Championship Appearance. And by facing them a couple of weeks into the season it will have given Ohio St. a few games to gel their talent.

Week 4, @UCLA: Mighty UCLA under Karl Dorrell will be a massive hurdle for Washington.

Week 5, USC:You don't really have to elaborate why facing USC contributes to the Death March.

Week 6, @Arizona St.:Currently ASU is only one of two teams in Washington's schedule to not be ranked. However, they are 2-0 and do not play either Oregon, Cal, UCLA, or USC prior to their matchup with Washington so I'd be willing to put 50/50 odds on them being ranked on October 13th.

Week 7, Oregon: Facing the Ducks will conclude their 6 week stretch in which they play 5 different ranked opponents. Luckily most of this will be done in the friendly Husky confines however it doesn't really mean that it's any less brutal. And that's all assuming that Arizona St. isn't ranked come week 6. Anyway the Ducks slaughtered Michigan and Houston in their openers and Dixon is playing out of his head.

Week 8, Arizona: Finally a little breather for the Huskies. Arizona had some good games last season but their still amongst the worst in the Pac 10.

Week 9, @Stanford: And the easiest game on their schedule award goes to the Stanford Cardinal who have only played one game and were dropped 45-17 by UCLA. Should be a rough year for Jimmy Harbaugh.

Week 10, @Oregon St.:The Beavers might be undergoing a down season after the showing they put up in Cleveland, so this isn't a typical OSU squad.

Week 11, Cal:Cal is currently ranked #8 in the natio so not much need to elaborate here either.

Week 12, Washington St.: No matter how good Wazzu is this season it still is a rivalry game and rivalry games are always tough.

Week 13, @Hawaii: Typically heading to Hawaii at the end of a long stretch of working sounds like a pleasing agenda. However, another lengthy flight to face a top 25 season after completing a tough Pac 10 regiment sounds like a bit too much on Washington's plate.

So basically the Washington Athletic Director has decided that he doesn't really want Tyrone to win a lot of games this season. And yet Washington will probably still have more wins than Notre Dame. And that folks will be both ironic and hilarious.

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