Jedd Fisch and the Washington Huskies are sitting at a brutal 3-3 on the year, including a crushing 0-3 in Big Ten play, after stumbling through their first six games of the 2026 season. After dropping three straight to Minnesota, USC, and Iowa, Coach Fisch is clearly fed up. He spoke on Monday about needing to completely reset where the Huskies are at the halfway point, looking to figure out what the heck is going on.
What The Heck Happened To The Huskies?
The first half of the season was a disaster, plain and simple. We watched the team look shaky through their nonconference schedule, and then it just kept getting worse with those three consecutive losses. The latest blow was a 41-24 drubbing by the Hawkeyes on Friday. Fisch isn’t sugarcoating it, admitting that despite setting pretty high expectations after a solid 9-4 campaign in 2025, the program has been in disarray all year. He pointed to two games lost by just three and four points, and how they felt like they were in a position to win against SC but didn’t close it out. Against Minnesota, they started slow, played well defensively in the second half, but still couldn’t pull it off. You can feel the frustration, right?
The Numbers Don’t Lie: It’s Getting Worse
Fisch emphasized taking a long, hard look at everything. The big questions are: “What do we need to do? What is the reality of the situation? What do we want to do to make sure that we’re getting better?” He wants to know how to improve each player and rework the messaging to the team. Because let’s be real, “nobody would’ve predicted the situation we were in running the football,” as Fisch put it. And the stats back up the panic: the Huskies are now ranked No. 12 in the Big Ten for scoring defense, giving up 22.2 points per game. That’s a huge slide from being No. 5 in 2025. But the offense is even worse, posting a measly 26.2 points per game, good for dead last at No. 16 in the Big Ten, after finishing No. 4 in 2025. Oof.
So, what’s the plan for the next six weeks? Fisch is trying to figure out “what type of offense do we need to run…to put ourselves in a position to score more points?” On defense, it’s all about getting better each week and not letting one bad game spiral into the next. It’s a massive challenge for Fisch and his staff to turn this around. He’s saying they are in this thing together, and let’s hope the players buy in, because the rest of the season starts right now.
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Originally reported by Yahoo Sports.
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