Washington State at Baylor.
Hurrican Ike moving this game forward a day adds a wild-card emement to game between two of the worst BCS teams in the country. But the Bears at least have a taste of what winning feels like. And perhaps the disruptions affect the traveling team more. Baylor, 21-20.

No. 5 Ohio State at No. 1 Southern California. Buckeyes' struggles took some luster off this "game of the year." USC, 30-20.

UNLV at No. 15 Arizona State. Sun Devils mustn't look ahead to Georgia. ASU, 43-17.

No. 16 Oregon at Purdue. Lots of offense, lots of entertainment. Ducks, 42-37.

UCLA at No. 18 Brigham Young. Rubber match of three meetings in 53 weeks. Cougars, 24-21.

No. 23 California at Maryland. Kickoff at 9 a.m. body time for Bears. Cal, 31-24.

Hawaii at Oregon State. Both teams longing for last season. Beavers, 31-28.

Stanford at TCU. Should learn something about Cardinal – and Pac-10 – here. Frogs, 31-20.

Arizona at New Mexico. QB Tuitama dominating weak defenses. And the Wildcats have proven their ability to dominate teams whose name ends in "o" (Idaho, Toledo). Wildcats, 43-27.

No. 3 Oklahoma at Washington. There's a lot of talent in among the UW underclassmen. But some of their learning might not be pretty. And in Oklahoma they are facing a team that's probably about as good as any in the country. It's a test that seems far beyond the Huskies' current state of development. Sooners, 49-17.

Last week: 6-0
Season: 13-1
UW games: 2-0

True freshman tailback Chris Polk is scheduled to have surgery to repair his torn labrum next week, which will end his season. A medical redshirt is expected.

That was the main news from coach Tyrone Willingham's final press conference before the Oklahoma game on Saturday.

Other news:

TE Michael Gottlieb has practiced this week and is expected to make his season debut Saturday.

Safety Nate Williams is expected to return to practice today after illness. Willingham said his availability to help bolster UW’s thin secondary on Saturday is undetermined.

Willingham listed the tailback order as David Freeman, Willie Griffin and Brandon Johnson; while offensive coordinator Tim Lappano said their could also be a role for Brandon Yakaboski.

This week's UW opponent -- Oklahoma -- is one of three on the Huskies schedule -- along with Notre Dame and USC -- that could make a fair case to being the most tradition-rich college football program of all time.

Not surprisingly, UW coach Tyrone Willingham isn't interested in casting the deciding vote. So, I'm going to take a shot in my Friday column. However, I'd also be interested to hear what you think. Subjective items -- traditions, and such -- will be considered. But so will the pure cold numbers of achievement. To help you along, here's a look at some of those:

Category/ OK USC ND
Consensus national titles/ 7 11 11
Some national title claim/ 16 17 21
Conference titles/ 41 37 0*
Bowl appearances/ 41 46 28*
Bowl victories/ 24 30 13*
All-time win percentage/.715 .704 .739
Heisman winners/ 4 7 7
*Notre Dame is an independent and did not regularly accept bowl invitations until 1969.

By the way, here's a USA Today story that looks at that UW schedule.

And finally, we get our last pre-game word from Willingham around mid-afternoon, so likely no UW football news until then.