Washington Huskies complete 2013 Non-conference Football Schedule

By Kevin Kelley -
Eastern Washington at Washington (2011)
Joe Nicholson-US PRESSWIRE

The Washington Huskies have completed their 2013 non-conference football schedule with a home game against Idaho State.

Washington will host Idaho State, an FCS team, at Husky Stadium in Seattle on Sept. 21, 2013. The game will be the first ever meeting between the two schools.

The match-up will be Washington’s third against an FCS team since 1971 (UC-Santa Barbara). The Huskies opened the 2011 season with a win over Eastern Washington.

Washington will open the newly renovated Husky Stadium on Sept. 7, 2013 against the Boise State Broncos. UW will also travel to face the Illinois Fighting Illini on Sept. 14.

In Pac-12 play, Washington is slated to host Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington State and travel to Oregon State, Stanford and Utah. The Huskies will also play Arizona State and UCLA at sites to be determined.

Listed below is Washington’s non-conference football schedule through 2015. Since the Huskies play at Hawaii in 2014, they are eligible to schedule a 4th non-conference game that season.

2013

  • Sept. 7 – Boise State
  • Sept. 14 – at Illinois
  • Sept. 21 – Idaho State

2014

  • Aug. 30 – at Hawaii
  • Sept. 6 – Eastern Washington
  • Sept. 13 – Illinois

2015

  • Sept. 5 – Sacramento State
  • Sept. 12 – Hawaii
  • Sept. 19 – at Boise State

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Comments (7)

ok, they are playing Boise St and have a road trip to the big 10. How many Sec teams would do that? none!

pretty much standard practice to have a tune up game in the schedule, UW was one of the last hold outs not to schedule div1aa. just a frame of reference the SEC teams play 8 conference games and 4 non-conf which in general is 1 or 2 div1aa, along with the louisiana monroes and maybe one competitive game.

standard practice isn’t necessarily the best practice. USC and Notre Dame don’t stoop this low. Idaho State is a very weak 1AA. Couldn’t you get Montana or somebody that even would pretend to be competitive.

Maybe Montana doesn’t want to play anyone as weak as Washington.

Most likely though, UW didn’t have that money options for a team that would agree to play a road game on that date.