The Washington Huskies hosted Purdue University at Husky Stadium Saturday night, getting off to a slow start on its first two drives before throttling the Boilermakers 49-13.

The order of the day was for the Washington Huskies to not start slowly or turn the ball over.  But, despite the marching orders, the Husky offense sputtered out of the gate. At the Purdue 44 yard line, on the fifth play of the Huskies first drive, on 2nd and 1, Zach Henning snapped the ball wide and over Demond Williams, Jr.’s head.  The errant snap was recovered by Purdue at the Husky 42.

On Washington’s next drive the UW went 3 and out.  For the Huskies, 8 plays for 24 yards wasn’t how it was drawn up.

However, the home team’s defense took over forcing back-to-back turnovers of downs and an interception.

Washington’s offensive explosion was ignited by Omari Evans’ one-handed 43-yard reception.

UW had the ball on its own 38 when the sophomore signal-caller dropped a perfect ball over the Boilermaker defender into the outstretched arm of Evans.

That set up the sequence of 6 consecutive drives where UW scored touchdowns.  All drives that began inside the Husky 40 yard line, including 2 drives that started inside the UW 15.

The sequence was halted on a 8-yard sack of Williams on 4th down and 2 yards to go.

Adam Mohammad, the running back starter in place of injured Jonah Coleman carried the workload on the ground with 17 carries for 60 yards but 3 touchdowns.  Behind him, Jordan Washington carried the ball 5 times for 108 yards including a 68-yard touchdown pass.

It wasn’t always easy as Williams had the ball snapped over his head again for what looked to be a huge loss before the second year Husky found Decker Degraaf for a completion of 30 yard but a 14-yard net.

Center Landen Hatchett wasn’t the Huskies only offensive line starter missing as John Mills took over at right tackle for Drew Azzopardi, and proved himself a worthy starter at the position.   Despite the two errant snaps, Henning played

The defense held, in part thanks to a turf tackle when Boilermaker receiver Nitro Tuggle slipped just beyond the line to gain.  A 34-yard punt gave UW the ball at its own 9 yard line.  But the Huskies got an important win despite missing 4 key starters: Denzel Boston, Jonah Coleman.

A week after a forgettable performance at Wisconsin, Luke Dunne punted twice for an average of 44 yards.

The Huskies travel to the Rose Bowl next week to take on the UCLA Bruins who lost to Ohio State 48-10.