The 2018 season's largest margin: Washington 45, North Dakota 3. A 42-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2018 — The Top-10 Year
Washington finished 2018 inside the final AP top-10. The top-10 is the tier the program calibrates annual expectation against.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Jake BrowningQB3,173 passing yards
- Myles Gaskin?1,269 rushing yards
- Salvon AhmedRB606 rushing yards
- Sean McGrewRB226 rushing yards
- Aaron FullerWR874 receiving yards
- Andre BaccelliaWR565 receiving yards
- Ty JonesWR491 receiving yards
- Ben Burr-KirvenLB165 tackles
- Tevis BartlettLB69 tackles
- Myles BryantDB56 tackles
- Taylor RappDB5 sacks
- Greg GainesDL3.5 sacks
- Levi OnwuzurikeDL3 sacks
Season leaders, 2018.
The season's deepest loss: Washington 16, Auburn 21. A 5-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Washington fell to Ohio State 23-28 in the postseason.
"Go Dawgs. Purple reigns."
2018 is a middle chapter for Washington — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.