Wow, wow, wow — we gotta say, winning the Sugar Bowl is a really sweet way to start off 2024.
After beating Texas 37-31 in the College Football Playoff semifinals, UW’s football team is about to play for a national title . The Huskies will face Michigan in Houston Monday, Jan. 8 and it’s all a lot of us can talk about.
Here are a few tidbits about the upcoming big game.
- If UW wins, this will be its first title since 1991 .
- This will be the 14th time that UW and Michigan have played against each other. Of course, we’ll see a lot more of that once the Huskies join the Big Ten conference .
- Of those 13 games, UW has won five times and Michigan won the last two.
- The price for round-trip flights between Seattle and Houston have jumped up and average ~$1,000 for game weekend.