“His stubbornness,” DeBoer said, “makes him special.”īut Powell had only one career interception before Arizona State’s Trenton Bourguet broke the huddle. He was a walk-on at Washington when Jimmy Lake was coaching, and when Kalen DeBoer became the coach in 2022 he gave Powell a scholarship, upon the urging of teammates. He has played 28 games for Washington, a Seattle native who was both a sprinter and a shot putter at O’Dea High. The savior was cornerback Michael Powell. They somehow survived, 15-7, coughing all the way, and remain in charge of the Pac-12, and hold onto a chance to become the dying conference’s third team to make the College Football Playoff. They lost anyway.Īt the end of D-Con Day, Washington seemed in need of antitoxin, even though the Huskies were at home against an Arizona State squad that had been shut out by Fresno State and hadn’t won a game since they beat Southern Utah in the opener. The undefeated Heels were 24-point favorites over a team that had beaten only William & Mary. Either he forgot to, or the Tar Heels just don’t know jack about this process. Mack Brown calls it poisonous cheese and promised to warn his North Carolina team about it. That’s Nick Saban’s term for toxic satisfaction, brought on by excessive praise. The rat poison came flying off the shelves of college football on Saturday.
