The Washington Huskies play the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Friday in the 2015 Cactus Bowl. Kickoff is at 10:15 p.m. ET. Watch the live stream below.
Washington (8-5) had an uneven midseason stretch, but they head into Friday's bowl game on a hot streak after closing out the regular season with two straight wins. Their season -finale victory was a 31-13 blowout of interstate rival Washington State, helping to lock down the Huskies' fifth straight bowl game invite and giving coach Chris Petersen his 100th career victory.
"Nothing's easy early on and it takes a while, like we talk about it, this process," Petersen said, via ESPN. "You can't snap your fingers. They don't just get it. They haven't ever backed down and it's just starting to come together."
Oklahoma State (6-6), meanwhile, ended their five-game losing skid in their season finale's 38-35 win against rival Oklahoma. The Cowboys have had an up-and-down season, with their most recent low coming with the dismissal of Tyreek Hill, who was charged with punching and choking his pregnant girlfriend on Dec. 12.
"You come off of a certain feeling and you have an incident like this, and it just makes it extremely difficult," said Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy. "The energy level we got from that game has not been diminished, but it was just a shot in the gut for all of us. It's hard on the players now."
Gundy knows things won't be easy on Friday, but winning a bowl game would be a nice way for his team to cap off their 2014 campaign.
"Washington is a good football team," he said. "They've lost to five good teams, good opponents. They are very well coached ... Defensively, they've done some scheming, depending on who they've played. They got a couple players that are very, very highly regarded. They can run, tackle, can blitz, can make some plays."
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