After a 1-2 start to the season via a three-game homestand, Georgia State football takes to the road for the first time this year when they face the Pac-12’s Washington Huskies in Seattle at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The trip is the longest the team has taken in the short history of the football program.
Many of the Panthers’ coaches have ties to the University of Washington. Head Coach Trent Miles served as the runningbacks coach under Tyrone Willingham with the Huskies. Wide receivers coach Tim Lappano coached quarterbacks while being the offensive coordinator from 2005 to 2008.
Luke Huard, currently Georgia State’s quarterbacks coach, was the assistant QB coach under Lappano. Ronnie Fouch, now a graduate assistant, was a Washington QB before transferring to Indiana State when Miles coached there.
The Huskies boast the NCAA’s third-ranked pass defense, which could present issues for the Panthers’ offense which has thrived primarily on the pass. Nick Arbuckle has thrown for the fourth most yards in the nation with 1,121.
Georgia State runningback Krysten Hammon, who was suspended for last week’s game against Air Force, is not with the team in Seattle this weekend, but is no longer suspended.
The University of Washington is paying Georgia State $900,000 for the game.
