Thunder and lightning rained down on Husky Stadium on Saturday night. But the weather did nothing to detract the Washington Huskies from opening their PAC 12 schedule with a tough loss to the California Golden Bears 20 to 19 in a game that concluded at an hour that many early risers on the East Coast were just beginning to think about breakfast.
The extensive delay - tallying just shy of three hours - presented a great challenge for both teams. On one hand, a traveling Cal team already coping with the normal challenges that accompany a road game, had to deal with the extra hours tacked on to the game and the issue of logistics that go into the normal post-game departure routine.