Washington Huskies Football Schedule Features Several Notable Opponents

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The Washington Huskies football team is starting to gain traction as potential College Football Playoff contenders this season.

The Huskies ranked 17th in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 poll, and received compliments from a variety of national analysts and college football reporters about the potential impact the team could have in its third year under Jedd Fisch.

And looking at Washington's schedule, there's a lot of reason to believe there's some validity in those expectations.

The Huskies were one of eight teams featured in the preseason Top 25 poll. The other seven teams, aside from Washington, on the list are: the Ohio State Buckeyes (No. 1), the Oregon Ducks (No. 2), the defending NCAA national champions, the Indiana Hoosiers (No. 6), the Southern California Trojans (No. 15), Michigan Wolverines (No. 16), Penn State Nittany Lions (No. 18) and Iowa Hawkeyes (No. 22).

The Huskies will play five top 25 teams this season among the ranked Big Ten rivals. They'll play USC on Oct. 3 on the road in Los Angeles; Iowa on Oct. 9 at home at Husky Stadium in Seattle; Penn State on Nov. 7 at Husky Stadium; Indiana on Nov. 21 at Husky Stadium and they'll close out their regular season against Oregon on Nov. 28 on the road in Eugene, Ore.

UW's five preseason Top 25 opponents on the schedule is tied for the 10th-most in the country.

Due to Washington's strength of schedule, there's a very real chance that a winning record against its five ranked conference rivals, plus an almost clean sheet of victories against the rest of its Big Ten rivals, results in a CFP spot for the Huskies.

Even if the Huskies aren't able to make it into the CFP, there's an opportunity for them to potentially guarantee one of their rivals, such as the Ducks, depending on results throughout the season.

If Washington is able to take a jump, it would mark the second stop in a row for Fisch in which he was able to turn around a program in his third year at the helm of the program.

The current Huskies head coach turned around the Wildcats from a one-win team in 2021 to 10 wins in 2023. In his first two years leading Washington, the Dawgs finished 6-7 in 2024 and 9-4 in 2025.

If Washington makes the CFP, it would be the third playoff appearance in program history and the first in the 12-team format.

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