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Penix Reiterates His Desire to Play in the Husky Bowl Game

The UW quarterback has never appeared in the postseason yet in his five college seasons.

Dan Raley

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The questions are all the same these days for University of Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr., only the topics are different.

Will you play or will you go?

That involves not only the upcoming and undetermined bowl game guaranteed for Penix and the 10-2 Huskies, but also playing another season in Montlake, which would be his sixth as a collegian.

Asked no less than three times on a Monday conference call about possibly opting out of the postseason, as so many collegians have done in recent seasons β€” and in dealing with what looks more and more like either the Rose Bowl or Alamo Bowl β€” Penix's answers to the question got more definitive each time he was quizzed about it.

In response to Christian Caple of The Athletic, he said, "As far as a bowl game, as far as right now, I'm definitely looking forward to playing with my team and being there for those guys. I definitely want to be there for those guys."

Dave "Softy" Mahler of KJR radio got on the call late and repeated the same question, which Penix answered this way, "Yes, I'm looking forward to playing with my guys and playing in the bowl and being out there with my guys."

And finally Dennis Dodd of CBSSports.com, asked him one more time, to which the Husky QB patiently replied, "Yes, sir I'm looking forward to playing in it."

One guy who hasn't felt the need to pester Penix about opting out is UW offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb

"I didn't even feel like it was a discussion we needed to have," Grubb said. "He's excited. This is the first bowl game he's ever played in. He's fired up about the opportunity."

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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