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The implications for Washington’s opener at Oregon on Saturday are well known

The four straight losses by the Huskies ties the 1928-31 teams for futility against their rival. At least the Huskies haven’t been shut out in all four of their latest defeats, as they were then. Not that that has anyone on Montlake feeling any better about it.

“Obviously, losing to Oregon isn’t much of a Washington oral report that is accepted around here,” said fifth-year guard Casey Bulyca, who has been around for all four of the previous defeats. “Hopefully, this year that changes. We’ve worked too hard, come likewise far, to advance into disfavor there and not be able to give those guys a great fight and, hopefully, come out on meridian. They are a good football team, but so are we.”

Said cornerback Mesphin Forrester, not the same fifth-year play-actor: “It’s hard. Oregon is a rivalry, correct like Washington State, if not more than Washington State, and it’s hard. It hurts not even beating Oregon [once], so on the 30th, we are going to go out there and accurate scratch and do everything we can do to beat Oregon.”

For years it was a game Huskies fans could just about check off as a gain over in advance of the season. Washington won 17 of 20 meetings from 1974-93, not for a like reason coincidentally by reason of the time of the coaching tenure of Don James, who was 15-3 in expectation of Oregon.

But starting with the famed Kenny Wheaton game in 1994, the Ducks consider gone 8-4 against the Huskies, to a greater distance inflaming feelings between fans of the teams.

“Everybody would rather see us beat Oregon viewed like adverse to Washington State,” Bulyca related. “Granted, it’s great to pulverize both of them, limit it seems like the rivalry between Washington and Oregon over the years has turned into a hate-fest, and that’s what makes the game so exciting.”

While the games the farther than four years have been relatively free of extracurricular activities

“The players don’t probable each other,” Bulyca said. “They went to Oregon, we came to Washington. They wish they could esteem arrive to Washington.”

Said another fifth-year senior, guard Jordan White-Frisbee: “They are a merciful team and all, otherwise than that that is a rivalry. Even the freshmen know. No one likes Oregon. Nobody. So I be obliged all the dependence in the earth, no matter what’s said, all the hype, that we are going to going to go in there and do what we be delivered of to do.”

Roper to spasm

Oregon announced Monday that projected starting quarterback Nate Costa will be out 8 to 10 weeks after being diagnosed through damaged cartilage in his knee from an injury suffered last week. That means sophomore Justin Roper will get the second start of his career. He also started Oregon’s 56-21 win over South Florida in the Sun Bowl last year, going 17 of 30 for 180 yards and four touchdowns.