Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Northwest Championship" in English language version.
"We just found something to play for. We had games against Oregon State, Oregon and Washington State, so we created a 'Northwest Championship.' We found a rallying cry. We had little shirts with check marks on them," he said. "And we knocked them all off." ... At Washington, Neuheisel found the best way to motivate his players was the perfect storm of playing their top three rivals in successive weeks.
Washington is content with its unofficial Northwest Championship. "It had to be enough," quarterback Cody Pickett said Sunday. "Everybody left us for dead. We had to rally around something."
Dawgs vs. the Northwest: Washington is off to a 2–0 start this year in its quest to claim the Pacific Northwest Championship. The Huskies have scored victories against Oregon (34–20) and Oregon State (47–21) and will face Washington State Nov. 20 in Husky Stadium. Some of Washington's oldest and longest rivalries are against the other three northwest Pac-10 schools. The Huskies have faced Oregon 93 times, Washington State in 91 games and Oregon State on 84 occasions. Washington owns the advantage in all three series. The Huskies lead the Ducks 56–32–5, Washington State 58–27–6 and Oregon State 54–26–4. Combined, Washington has a 168–85–15 (.655) record against its northwest rivals.
No, you don't win any prizes for beating the Idaho Vandals. Not if you're the big, bad Washington Huskies. The neighbors from the east didn't even deserve a spot in Rick Neuheisel's mythical Northwest championship a few years ago.
Braxton Cleman wore a homemade T-shirt that declared the Huskies the prime candidate for the "Northwest Championship," whatever that is (does Boise State have a vote?), and had Oregon and Oregon State checked off as the conquered masses.
Both teams are going for the mythical Northwest championship. They defeated Washington and Washington State this season.
It brought Oregon a "Northwest championship"—wins over Washington, Washington State, and Oregon State—for the first time since 1954.
Oregon State coach Dennis Erickson had a wry response this week when asked whether he thought it was important for Oregon State to win Saturday and try to capture the so-called Northwest championship among OSU, Oregon, Washington and Washington State.
There's also the mythical "Northwest championship" to play for, which Reed brought up. "I do know that this is a game that we get excited for, probably more so than most of the other Pac-10 games," [Oregon defensive end Nick] Reed said. "Because it's a Northwest rivalry and we got to win the Northwest championship."
The UW then went on to upset third-ranked Washington State and claim the Neuheisel-invented "Northwest Championship.
Washington [...] had meandered through the first three-quarters of the season at 4–5 before Neuheisel said his team's new goal was to sweep its last three games against Oregon State, Oregon and WSU and win what he coined the "Northwest Championship." Washington had two-thirds of that title in hand as it headed to Pullman.
Let's pause and give an overdue shoutout here to Rick Neuheisel, whose genius (genius?) creation of the "Northwest Championship" has long strummed the emotional strings of fans' hearts from all parts of the region, from Ashland to Zillah, from the Puget Sound to the Willamette Valley, from the Palouse to Corvallis. Thank you, Rick.
That completed what Neuheisel had dubbed the Northwest Championship, with the Huskies closing out the season with successive victories over Oregon State, Oregon and WSU (after losing to USC, Arizona State and UCLA the three weeks prior). Neuheisel even had T-shirts made up with blank boxes to check off after each win. [...] The Huskies wore those T-shirts as they marched back onto the Autzen Stadium turf for their postgame brouhaha.
Fans of other schools cried that the Northwest Championship was strictly mythical, just another devious Neuheisel ploy. But the Huskies didn't care, and proudly laid claim to it again last year when, in the midst of one of the most chaotic seasons in school history, the lone highlight was beating Oregon State, Oregon and Washington State by a combined 61 points.
Since 1903, the first year in which the four teams all played each other, the Huskies have managed to sweep all three opponents and capture the Northwest Championship 28 times, including that first 1903 season. The series has been interrupted at times due to scheduling. The longest stretch of Northwest Championships (five) was put together by Husky teams from 1975–1979. Washington's 28 "Northwest Championships" leads the four schools. Oregon State is second with 10 sweeps while Oregon has six and Washington State five.
Washington State heads into Apple Cup week ranked No. 20 in both major polls and has a chance to win the northwest crown for the first time since 1983. The Cougars have already blown out the Beavers and have upended the Ducks. Now they just need to beat the 5–6 Huskies to be the undisputed kings of the Pacific Northwest hill
Oregon State also bagged the fictitious Northwest Championship, created by former Washington coach Rick Neuheisel to inspire the Huskies. The title goes to the team that beats all of the Pac-10 teams in the Pacific Northwest.
With a convincing win over Oregon State last Saturday, Washington is 5–5 overall and 2–4 in the Pac-10 Conference. Entering their game against Oregon on Saturday at Autzen Stadium, the Huskies are still alive for a bowl berth and still have a chance for a winning season.
However, a late-season sweep of the so-called Northwest championship last year is proof Washington has the makings of a solid defense.
Washington is content with its unofficial Northwest Championship. "It had to be enough," quarterback Cody Pickett said Sunday. "Everybody left us for dead. We had to rally around something."
Oregon State also bagged the fictitious Northwest Championship, created by former Washington coach Rick Neuheisel to inspire the Huskies. The title goes to the team that beats all of the Pac-10 teams in the Pacific Northwest.
Dawgs vs. the Northwest: Washington is off to a 2–0 start this year in its quest to claim the Pacific Northwest Championship. The Huskies have scored victories against Oregon (34–20) and Oregon State (47–21) and will face Washington State Nov. 20 in Husky Stadium. Some of Washington's oldest and longest rivalries are against the other three northwest Pac-10 schools. The Huskies have faced Oregon 93 times, Washington State in 91 games and Oregon State on 84 occasions. Washington owns the advantage in all three series. The Huskies lead the Ducks 56–32–5, Washington State 58–27–6 and Oregon State 54–26–4. Combined, Washington has a 168–85–15 (.655) record against its northwest rivals.
