SALT LAKE CITY -- This game will get buried in the history of No. 4 Washingtons already special season. If the Huskies make it to the playoff, that means they will have won games with more on the line. If they dont make it to the playoff, no one will remember.Thats too bad, because what Washington did to win at No. 17 Utah, 31-24, on Saturday is what championship teams do. The Huskies won on the road against a ranked team. They won when they took a 14-point lead and gave it up, won when the second-biggest crowd in the history of Rice-Eccles Stadium (47,801) had revved up into full roar on a spectacular fall afternoon.The Huskies won with the nation watching the biggest opportunity on their schedule to demonstrate how good they are. Thats because the rest of the Pac-12 this season is begging to be confused with the mediocrity of the Big 12.Who else in the Pac-12 is going to give Washington an opponent that will earn the Huskies some playoff brownie points? USC, which has won four straight games and lost to Alabama by 46? Washington State, the only other unbeaten team in league play, which lost to FCS Eastern Washington? A possible Pac-12 championship game against Colorado, which is much better but after the past two decades has no street cred?No, after winning their past three games by an average of 37 points, this was the Huskies opportunity, and they seized upon it.You never really know until youre in that situation, quarterback Jake Browning said. We embraced the fourth-quarter fight. Obviously, the blowouts are nice. But you want to pull [these] out. So that was big for us.Brownings stat line wont help him in the Heisman race. He completed 12 of 20 passes for 186 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. That pick, with Washington ahead 14-0 in the second quarter, brought Utah to life. The Utes spent the rest of the first half and nearly the first seven minutes of the second half -- a total of 14:55 -- running 33 plays to the Huskies three, and scoring 17 points to take the lead.Washington hadnt been behind since the second quarter of the Arizona game, four games ago, 252 minutes and 11 seconds on the clock. The Huskies needed exactly six plays to regain the lead, but this game had become a battle. Utah came back and tied it at 24-24 with 9:07 to play.Lets get back to Browning. That interception he threw would be his only glaring mistake of the game. He read the defense correctly and got the Huskies into the right play with an ease and efficiency that belied his sophomore status.And then, with the score still 24-24, and the Huskies facing a fourth-and-8 at the Utes 41 with slightly more than five minutes to play, Browning began a series of five plays that won the game for Washington. He began it with his foot.Washington head coach Chris Petersen didnt send his punt team onto the field. Browning, lined up in the pistol, took the snap and delivered his second punt of the season, a poocher that rolled to a stop at the Utes 1.The defense, which had forced only one other punt in the second half, held Utah to 2 yards in three plays. Safety Budda Baker, who had stayed on his side of the line of scrimmage for the entire game, crashed forward on first down to nail Utes back Joe Williams for a 2-yard gain.Williams quit the team three weeks into the season because he was sore and couldnt take the punishment anymore. He has run for nearly 700 yards in the three games since he returned, getting 172 yards on a career-high 35 carries Saturday. Someone better check on him Sunday.The Utes went no farther, and with the ball on the 3, in came Utah punter Mitch Wishnowsky, who had done nothing all day except prove why hes the best in the game. Wishnowsky had punted five times, averaging 53.7 yards per kick, dropping four of them inside the 20, and hung the ball so high that Huskies returner Dante Pettis had a total of 2 return yards.Its hard, Pettis said. That guy is good. He has one of the best legs Ive played against. I was lining up at 50 yards, having to run back 15 more yards to get set up under it and have to drift back even more because the ball would just carry. That one didnt. He was backed up so he didnt have as much time to get set up and kick that ball.Wishnowsky punted it 55 yards, but the ball came out low and hard and never soared like his others. When Pettis caught the ball at the Washington 42, he had time. He ran right, to the wide field, and went backward about 5 yards to evade the coverage.I knew Coach Pete would be mad if I got tackled right there, so somehow I slipped out of it, Pettis said. I was literally, I cant get tackled right now. I cant get tackled right now. Pettis got to the sideline and pivoted upfield. He had a wall of blockers to his left and no red jerseys in sight. Replay showed anywhere from one to three blocks in the back by his teammates, none of which the officials called. The 58-yard touchdown, Pettis second punt return for a score this season, provided the winning margin for the Huskies (8-0, 5-0), extending their winning streak to 11 games.Thats a good football team we played today, Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said. Theyre talented, they have a terrific quarterback, theyre well coached, theyre solid in all three phases and they beat us.Petersen, who is begrudging in praise of his own team, agreed with Whittingham.I just like it when they answer hard tests, Petersen said. Theyve come out, theyve been ready to play. Weve started fast and got really good momentum going. Thats all fun. Thats fun and thats nice. But I do like it when we get in these hard situations and they have to figure out a way. I think thats going to give us some confidence down the road when we have to do another hard situation.The Huskies must play at defenseless Cal next week. They get USC and Arizona State at home, then go to Washington State for the Apple Cup. The way Washington played Saturday, on the road against a very good team, its easy to imagine that the Huskies will play at least two games after that: the Pac-12 championship and a College Football Playoff semifinal. Balenciaga Shoes Sale . The veteran safety was a starter for the Bengals from 2008-2012. He totaled 41 tackles and three interceptions while starting all but four of the 13 games he played last season. Fake Balenciaga Cheap . DAmigo scored twice in regulation and added the shootout winner as the Toronto Marlies edged the San Antonio Rampage 5-4 in American Hockey League action. https://www.fakebalenciaga.com/ .Y. - New York City has been selected to host the NBA All-Star weekend in 2015, with the game played at Madison Square Garden and the slam dunk contest and other skills events held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Cheap Balenciaga . The winner Saturday will remain in the elite 10-team field next year. "We talked about wanting to be disciplined and stick with our game plan and good things will come," Draisaitl said, who had two goals for the victors. Wholesale Balenciaga . Ryan Garbutt had a goal and two assists as Dallas snapped a six-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night.The hockey bloodlines run deep in this weekends NHL draft. Familiar names like Bertuzzi, Brodeur, Burke, Comrie, Domi, LaFontaine, Mantha, Rychel, Stevens, Subban, and Tambellini could be called Sunday at the podium at the Prudential Centre in Newark, N.J. Defenceman Darnell Nurse also has impressive family ties. But his come from the gridiron. Father Richard played wide receiver for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. His uncle, by marriage, is former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb. Darnell chose hockey. His parents were happy to see him opt for a different sports path. "That was more my Dad," said Nurse. "My Mom too. I mean they both pretty much said for safety reasons, stay away from football. Im thankful for it now." He sees the toll football took on his father, reeling off the damage he noted when the two were spending time together recently on the familys backyard deck in Hamilton. "His hands are mangled, he cant move some of his fingers and hes got an elbow that doesnt move right. I looked at that and though those are battle wounds. Something maybe one day I get to show my kid," Nurse said. Its not as if Nurse, who stands almost six foot four and weighs 185, took up a non-contact sport in hockey. "Not at all," he said. "I think the biggest thing for them is I can probably control a little more hitting people in hockey than in football where you get hit every play. Put me on the back end and I get to control what happens." Nurse, 18, has excelled in his chosen sport. Central Scouting ranks him fourth among North American skaters and second among defencemen behind Seth Jones. In his second year with the OHLs Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, Nurse scored 12 goals and addeed 29 assists and 116 penalty minutes in 68 games.dddddddddddd People have compared him to a young Chris Pronger. His high draft rating earned him a trip to the Stanley Cup final, along with Jones and top-rated forwards Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin. He already knew MacKinnon and Drouin from playing with them at the Ivan Hlinka Tournament. At the Cup, Nurse marvelled at the media horde in the Bruins locker-room following a pre-game morning skate. "Something Ive never experienced before," he said. "It was kind of exciting to watch ... I was getting hot in there and I was doing nothing." He also enjoyed meeting Chicago stars Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews. "The mess that they put defenders in, being able to meet those guys was great," he said. On the Boston side, he liked watching the David Krejci-Milan Lucic-Nathan Horton line. Nurse grew up idolizing the likes of Scott Stevens and Jarome Iginla. So it comes as no surprise that he likes being a prickly opponent. "One of the best part of my game is being someone whos hard to play against," he said. "I think the fights kind of come with just battles, and people trying to challenge me after I challenge them. Something Im not afraid to do but at the same time its not something I go out and look for." Nurse has also made a mark off the ice, winning the Bobby Smith Trophy as the OHLs Scholastic Player of the Year this season. He earned an 85 per cent average in Grade 12. "His work ethic and lifestyle allow him to have elite results academically and athletically," Greyhounds GM Kyle Dubas said at the time. As for football, Darnell is true to his Dad, following his beloved Tiger-Cats. ' ' '