It's hard to lose eight straight games without some of the postgame quotes starting to sound familiar. That's kind of how it seemed Saturday in what was a familar-seeming loss followed by familiar-seeming quotes.

Everyone lamented the few key plays that turned the game against them. Everyone resolved to keep working as the season moves into its second half.

Here's my game story. Here's John McGrath's column.

And here are few of those postgame quotes:

COACH TYRONE WILLINGHAM overview:
“(It) was a game in which we didn’t make enough plays, gave up too many big plays, didn’t create any turnovers and gave turnovers. If those things could have been avoided …”

Offensive coordinator TIM LAPPANO on the Huskies' success throwing deep:
"They play a technique with their safeties about nine yards and if we could have protected our quarterback better tonight we could have scored a lot of points against them because the ball gets over the top of them. Our whole game plan was to run the football at them, just keep plugging away with the run game, just go at them and throw the ball over the top of them. We got behind them many times and we hit a lot of them and many times we didn’t have the time to get it. That’s what happens when you play your safeties down low like that. They support the run well, but you’re vulnerable over the top. We didn’t make them pay enough like I wanted to."

Defensive coordinator ED DONATELL overview:
“You’ve got to put the complete game together. You can see people over the course of the year have had a hard time (stopping OSU) -- even the best teams. It’s really the big plays.”

QB RONNIE FOUCH on the offense:
"It was tough. We had a lot of good drives, we just couldn’t capitalize when we got in the red zone on those third downs. It’s tough coming off of the field and having to kick field goals, but we’ve just go to do better on finishing our drives and making big third-down plays."

DT JOHNIE KIRTON on the season:
"It definitely tears at us, but I’m one of those guys that if something bad happens to me, at the next moment I can put a smile on my face, I can turn back that intensity. I know my senior class is the same way. It’s nothing to dwell on, we just need to get over the hump.
... What gets old is every Saturday night. The feeling, it gets old and something needs to change. ... It’s internal with us as players. There are so many times we come out physical, we come out running around, but for whatever reason it kind of dies away. It’s just maintaining like we do in the beginning of the game."

And a few game highlights:

Player of the game
Oregon State flanker James Rodgers gained a game-high 110 yards on three carries – a 36.7-yard average. He also caught three passes for 53 yards. He accounted for three touchdowns: on runs of 52 and 55 yards, and a 33-yard reception. His brother, Jacquizz, accounted for OSU’s other touchdown.

Husky of the game
Receiver D’Andre Goodwin regularly got behind the Oregon State secondary. He ended up with five catches for 136 yards. He became the first UW receiver to top 100 receiving yards this season, and he moved past that milestone in the first half.

Turning point
Washington jumped ahead 3-0. On the Beavers’ next possession late in the first quarter, they faced a fourth and 1 at their own 43. Coach Mike Riley decided to go for it. OSU converted and continued on for a touchdown that started a 17-0 run that UW couldn’t overcome.

Injury report
UW coach Tyrone Willingham reported no new injuries that are expected to keep anyone out next week. Goodwin and tailback Terrance Dailey each went out for a while, but both returned to action.

Extra points
Dailey became the fourth player to start at tailback for UW in the first six games, joining Chris Polk, David Freeman and Willie Griffin. … Tackle Johnie Kirton started for the first time as a defensive player. He had started previously as a tight end. … Jared Ballman’s 45-yard field goal in the first quarter was the first made by the Huskies since the season opener at Oregon. It also was UW’s longest since Ryan Perkins hit from the same distance last season against California. … This was OSU’s first road victory of the season after three losses. … Washington remains paired with North Texas as the only winless teams in the NCAA Bowl Subdivision as the not-so-Mean Green also lost, 35-23, to Louisiana-Monroe. The teams also share eight-game losing streaks, the longest in the nation. … UW game captains were Paul Homer, Johnie Kirton, Daniel Te'o-Nesheim and Michael Gottlieb.

Next
Notre Dame 5 p.m. Saturday, Husky Stadium, ESPN2. The Irish is 4-2 and will be coming off a bye week.

Heading to the field: I'm about to head down to the field and then into postgame mode for notes and quotes. As always, the comments section of this blog is open for your thoughts.

11:59: UW answers quickly as Terrance Dailey goes up the middle for a 59-yard touchdown. As of now he has 15 carries for 99 yards, making his first college start one of the few bright spots of the evening.

12:52 of the fourth: James Rodgers (who has outshone Jacquizz) just sent a lot of fans to the exits with a 55-yard run.

End of third quarter: If this result holds, at least it looks like UW will retain company as one of two winless teams among the 119 teams in the NCAA bowl subdivision: winless North Texas is also trailing badly.

Another note: No appearance by freshman Cody Bruns, who lost his redshirt in a three-play no-pass-attempt appearance at Arizona.

8:29 of the third: Oregon State marched 65 yards on their first possession, and this one is on the verge of getting out of reach .. and perhaps out of hand.

Halftime: What's working is Fouch-to-Goodwin. Goodwin has 122 receiving yards already. What isn't working is the running game: UW has 20 rushing yards. OSU has 76, although UW has kept Jacquizz Rodgers pretty much under control (25 yards).

Total yards favor OSU, 194-178.

OSU QB Lyle Moevao is 12 of 13 for 118 yards. Fouch is 10 of 18 for 158.

8:43 OSU turns another Fouch turnover -- a fumble this time -- into a James Rodgers TD -- on a middle screen this time.

14:09 of second: OSU turned the pick into a 37-yard field goal.

End of first: Unofficially, OSU 110 yards, UW 67; OSU four first downs, UW two; OSU 54 passing yards, UW 50; OSU 56 rushing yards, UW 17. And Fouch just threw an interception in UW territory for the lone turnover of the quarter.

2:23 of 1st: Oregon State went for it on a fourth and one in their own territory. They made it and were rewarded soon after when James Rodgers took a fly sweep 52 yards down the near sideline for the lead.

4:54 of first: A 48-yard pass from Ronnie Fouch to D'Andre Goodwin led to a 46-yard field goal by Jared Ballman giving UW it's first lead since the Stanford game.

Kickoff: The game is about to begin with UW receiving.

UW game captains are Paul Homer, Johnie Kirton, Daniel Te'o-Nesheim and Michael Gottlieb.

2 p.m. A couple of hours to kickoffs, and the Huskies have just walked across the field in street clothes and up the tunnel to prepare for their game vs. Oregon State.

Several preview items are blogged below. The game kicks off at 4 p.m. and will be shown on the Versus cable network.

As usual, I'll keep a running blog here with any pregame items, then with at least quarterly reports as the game progressed, then I'll pass it over to you for reaction while I get postgame notes and quotes for my final post tonight.

The UW athletic office has announced that University of Oklahoma athletics administrator Stephanie Rempe has been name UW's senior associate director of athletics and senior woman administrator.

Rempe (pronounced REMP) will be a senior member of the athletic department under AD Scott Woodward and will serve as the department's liaison to the Pacific-10 Conference and NCAA committees related to women's athletics. She also will oversee the day-to-day operations for men's and women's basketball, as well as several Olympic sports.

Full information is available at Gohuskies.com.