The 蜜柚直播 Wildcats lost to Washington 51-27 Saturday night at 蜜柚直播 Stadium. Here are some pertinent notes, quotes and statistics:
NOTES
* The loss was the biggest at home by the Wildcats under Kevin Sumlin. 蜜柚直播 lost three games at 蜜柚直播 Stadium last year by a combined 10 points.
*听Washington outscored 蜜柚直播 24-10 in the fourth quarter. In the previous three games, the Wildcats had outscored their opponents 29-3 in the final period.
*听蜜柚直播 surrendered a season-high four sacks, and QB Khalil Tate had a career-low minus-28 rushing yards. His previous low was minus-9 against Oregon State last season.
*听蜜柚直播鈥檚 four turnovers were its most since committing four at Washington State last season.
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*听Washington converted only 23.1% of its third downs (3 of 13), the lowest percentage by a UA opponent since Oregon (18.8%) last season. The Huskies were 1 of 7 in the first half, 2 of 6 in the second.
*听Washington scored 38 of its 51 points, had 316 of its 450 yards and 14 of its 18 first downs in the second half. The Huskies also had a near 2-1 advantage in time of possession in the second half (19:55-10:05).
*听蜜柚直播鈥檚 360 total yards were a season low and marked the first time the Wildcats had been held under 450 this year.
*听罢补颈濒产补肠办 J.J. Taylor, who had been out or limited the previous three games because of an ankle injury, had 126 scrimmage yards and a touchdown.
*听罢补颈濒产补肠办 Nathan Tilford rushed for a season-high 49 yards and scored his third touchdown in the past two games.
*听Tight end Bryce Wolma recorded his second catch of the season and his first since the Aug. 24 opener at Hawaii.
*听Cedric Peterson had a team-high 64 receiving yards, giving him 270 for the season 鈥� a career high.
*听Lucas Havrisik made a 50-yard field goal in the second quarter. He is 2 of 3 this season on field goals of 50-plus yards and 4 of 7 in his UA career.
*听Linebacker Tony Fields II had a team-high eight tackles and has taken over the team lead with 47 for the season.
QUOTES
Sumlin on the loss: 鈥淚t was gonna come down to really three things: Turnovers, penalties and special teams. You can't play a team of that caliber and turn it over that many times and have a punt blocked. All the things that happened in the first half and to still be ahead 鈥� based on all that, it was a miracle.鈥�
Sumlin on the constant pass-rush pressure on Tate: 鈥淭hey did a nice job with their front four. But they also did a nice job with the linebackers of running through in the run game, and they just kept coming when we dropped back to throw it. Some safety blitzes, which we hadn't seen a bunch of. Played some zero (coverage) a couple times and just dared us. We couldn鈥檛 get it off. Give them credit.鈥�
Sumlin on Tate prematurely fleeing the pocket: 鈥淲e talked about that, him stepping up in there and not avoiding the rush so much to the perimeter, because they were containing him. When he was bailing out, he鈥檚 bailing out right into pressure or the blocking surface. There were times he could have stepped up and ran. Instead of bailing out to the side, he's gotta push up in the pocket and makes things happen.鈥�
Sumlin on the blocked punt: 鈥淚t was just a different formation. They left the D-line in. Over the course of the last two years, they've been a return team. In two years, I think they came after one punt. 鈥� For whatever reason they decided to bring it tonight from a different formation and they got to it.鈥�
Sumlin on being 4-2 halfway through the season: 鈥淲e talk 1-0 mentality. It's been working for us. Tonight, obviously, it did not. But the messages is, hey, listen, win or lose, guess what? Next week's coming. What we can't do is let this bleed into next week.
鈥淲e're not even talking about the year. We're talking about (how) this team has responded to one week at a time, one day at a time. That's our approach. We're going to stick with that approach.
鈥淲e鈥檝e gotta be critical of ourselves as players, as coaches, and me. There were some things that we did tonight that were self-inflicted. As coaches, we鈥檝e gotta fix some things - as a team, as an organization.鈥�
Tate on how the team can bounce back: 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 fairly easy. This team has been through adversity before. I think it was a message for us, just to wake us up. Like a little reality check just to remind us that we have to play all four quarters every day. We can't take any games off or any quarters off. We鈥檝e just gotta be better as a whole. I think we鈥檒l do a lot better next week.鈥�
UA safety Scottie Young Jr. on the defense鈥檚 struggles in the second half: 鈥淛ust execution. Just finishing the game. They were more disciplined in the second half.鈥�
Washington coach Chris Petersen on the win: 鈥淩eally slow start on offense, but our defense was spectacular that first quarter and a half. We couldn鈥檛 get any rhythm going on offense. We had this unbelievable field position (average start in the first half: UW 42-yard line) but went three-and-out, field goal, whatever. The whole first half was very frustrating on offense, and everyone was frustrated at halftime coming in. I鈥檓 proud of how those guys responded.鈥�
STATS
*听Washington and 蜜柚直播 each had 18 first downs.
*听Washington had 207 net rushing yards; 蜜柚直播 had 151.
*听Washington averaged 6.7 yards per play; 蜜柚直播 averaged 5.0.
*听Washington had eight penalties for 67 yards; 蜜柚直播 had five for 33.
*听Washington鈥檚 net punting average was 41.8 yards; 蜜柚直播鈥檚 was 30.0.
*听Washington possessed the ball for 34 minutes, 24 seconds; 蜜柚直播 had it for 25:36.
*听Washington had 20 points off turnovers; 蜜柚直播 had three.
*听Washington鈥檚 average starting field position was its 40-yard line; 蜜柚直播鈥檚 was its 27.
*听Washington鈥檚 Sean McGrew and Salvon Ahmed combined for 201 rushing yards on 36 carries.
*听Washington QB Jacob Eason completed 15 of 22 passes for 243 yards and two touchdowns.
*听蜜柚直播 DT Trevon Mason had a career-high seven tackles and shared a TFL.