Washington bids to ride black-out to victory vs. UCLA

From a white-out to a black-out.After suffering a 35-6 loss to then-No. 6 Penn State last Saturday in the Nittany Lions’ annual white-out game in University Park, Pa., Washington will return home for its own black-out night when they take on UCLA (4-5 overall, 3-4 Big Ten) on Friday in Seattle.The usually purple-clad Huskies (5-5, 3-4) instead will don black uniforms, and fans are also encouraged to wear black.”Some great uniforms coming out,” Washington coach Jedd Fisch said. “So excited about that.”The Huskies this season have played in a black-out at Rutgers (Sept. 27), a stripe-out at Iowa (Oct. 12) and a red-out at Indiana (Oct. 26) before last Saturday’s white-out.They lost all of those games, although they are 5-0 at Husky Stadium.Washington likely needs to defeat UCLA to become bowl eligible as its last game of the regular season is Nov. 30 at No. 1 Oregon.The Huskies have had a short turnaround after not getting back to Seattle until 5 a.m. Sunday following their game at Penn State.”Short week, a little bit of a cram session,” Fisch said. “But as I told the staff, ‘Sleep Saturday.'”

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