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SEATTLE (AP) On the heels of probably the biggest win in Nevada football history, athletic director Chris Ault is already looking to the future.
``There'll be bigger wins coming,'' Ault said of the Wolf Pack's shocking 28-17 upset of the University of Washington at Husky Stadium on Saturday.
``You never know when you are making a memory, but I think we just made one,'' he told the Reno Gazette-Journal.
It was the first time in 10 tries that Nevada had beaten a team from the Pacific 10 Conference since it joined Division I-A in 1992.
In front of 70,149 cold and wet fans at a drizzly Husky Stadium, defensive tackle Jorge Cordova had 16 tackles and five quarterback sacks to set the tone.
``This has to go down as the biggest win in our school's history,'' Cordova said.
An effective offense and consistent special teams play contributed to the upset of the Huskies, who were favored by 17 1/2 points.
``This is by far our biggest win at Nevada and one of the highlights of my career,'' said Nevada Coach Chris Tormey, who was an assistant coach at Washington for 13 seasons in the 1980s and 90s.
The Pack hadn't beaten a Pac-10 team since 1947, when it won at Oregon, 13-6. Since then, it didn't even play a Pac-10 school until 1996, when it began the stretch of nine straight losses.
Nevada is now 4-2 on the season and remained 2-0 in the Western Athletic Conference. With six games remaining, the Pack has a good chance of going to its first bowl game since 1996. Since that year, Nevada has had only one winning season.
``Today we learned how to win,'' Ault said. ``We had struggled so much over the last six years, this is just so exciting. But now we have more important victories that we have to go get.''
After the final ticks had melted off the clock and the post-game handshakes and prayers were over Saturday, the Nevada football team rushed over to a Wolf Pack cheering section of about 700 fans and erupted in a joyous moment.
Running back Talib Wise, with a smile on his face that stretched across nearby Puget Sound, said with a mighty air of confidence in his voice, ``I told you we were going to shock the world.''
Ault heaped praise on Tormey, who is 14-27 at Nevada, for rallying the troops after last week's loss to rival UNLV.
``To do what he did after that disappointment, I can't emphasize enough what a great coaching job it was,'' Ault said. ``There may have been people talking about his future, but it wasn't in question.''
The Pack plays at Tulsa on Saturday in a return to WAC play.