The Washington Huskies may have been wearing 'Husky Royalty' jerseys for the first time Saturday night, but their performance against the Arizona State Sun Devils was nothing more than a royal pain in the butt for the home team.

The Sun Devils were 27.5-point underdogs, yet held Washington to no offensive touchdowns and 13 yards rushing as the visitors.

On top of that, the Washington Huskies shot themselves in the foot with four turnovers before the defense was able to find a massive takeaway of their own that turned out to be the difference in their 15-7 win over ASU Saturday night at Husky Stadium.

The guys from Dawgman.com - Kim Grinolds, Chris Fetters, and Scott Eklund - went through it...the not so good, bad, and downright ugliness of it all, but at the end of the day they could only come up with one incontrovertible fact: the Huskies still figured out a way to win the game.

Don't know how and don't know why - but the guys tried to break down the key points in the game to help offer some context to explain the unexplainable. Like how did ASU turn Washington's offense so completely pedestrian? And how did ASU's M.A.S.H. unit of an offensive line hold up against Washington's front seven? And why hadn't other teams tried what ASU found to be so successful?

There were a few guys out for the Huskies as well in receivers Jalen McMillan, Germie Bernard, and DL Tuli Letuligasenoa. During the game RG Geirean Hatchett left the action and later on safety Kamren Fabiculanan got banged up with a leg injury and he was unable to return.

The guys then talked about the team coming back out after halftime and promptly turning the ball over again, once more putting their defense on the spot. But Washington's defense came up with the goods time and time again, culminating in Mishael Powell's 89-yard pick-six to give Washington their first lead of the game with just over 8 minutes to play.

Kim, Chris, and Scott also talked about how clutch placekicker Grady Gross was, as well as some of the interesting decisions by ASU Head Coach Kenny Dillingham that saw the Sun Devils go for it on fourth down six times (they only converted twice), and how eventually the defense was able to put the final nails in the coffin and secure their seventh win of the 2023 season and 14th in a row overall.

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