UW’s Penix Doesn’t Shy from 2023 National Championship Talk

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The daring discuss already has begun and quarterback Michael Penix Jr. hardly is deflecting, ignoring or backing down from it.

On Monday afternoon at an Alamo Bowl information convention within the Alamodome, the College of Washington standout offensive chief was requested level clean if he is coming again to the Huskies in 2023 to be able to win a nationwide championship.

Penix is not shy about this topic in any respect. He gives no elusive spin transfer right here as he would with move rushers bearing down on him. He answered it straight up. 

“Yeah, for positive,” the Tampa, Florida, native mentioned. ” that is positively one of many causes. I simply really feel there was plenty of stuff that occurred that was nice, however on the identical time there was loads that was disregarded on the desk.”

Penix mentioned this after his 10-2 Huskies, on a six-game successful streak coming into Thursday night time’s sport towards Texas, ran by their first San Antonio follow session on the College of Incarnate Phrase and earlier than he visited Sea World within the afternoon, placed on a moist go well with and went for a journey within the water with an accommodating dolphin.

But the UW’s growing nationwide championship potentialities, which appear to develop exponentially with every added Husky underclassmen saying his personal 2023 season return on the heels of Penix’s daring choice, clearly can be a part of the dialog going ahead for the Huskies.

Penix might have put his title within the NFL draft and probably been chosen within the first spherical in April, a state of affairs that few faculty soccer gamers in his state of affairs would have rejected. But Penix did. He noticed unfinished enterprise in Montlake. 

“On the identical time, I really feel like simply me coming again, being a part of this program, being a part of this offense for one more 12 months, getting it beneath my belt, I feel it positively will assist elevate my sport and I will have the ability to assist elevate all people on the offensive facet of the ball, as effectively,” he mentioned. “I really feel prefer it was positively the most effective choice at the moment. That is all it was.”

The left-hander, who leads the nation in passing with 4,354 yards this season, desires all of it. He did not point out the Heisman Trophy in 2023, however no person requested him about that.

“I positively really feel like this group is unquestionably going to be within the nationwide championship, Pac-12, all that,” Penix mentioned, rattling off completely different title alternatives. “That is the rationale I got here again.”

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