SEATTLE _ This was the offensive breakthrough the No. 11 Huskies have been waiting for.
Jake Browning threw for one touchdown and ran for another while becoming Washington's all-time leading passer, Salvon Ahmed scored his first two touchdowns of the season, and the Huskies put together their most complete performance of the season in a 35-7 rout of No. 20 Brigham Young on Saturday night at Husky Stadium.
Even after Browning's record-setting game, perhaps the most impressive feat of the day was the shut-down performance from Washington's defense. It wasn't a shutout, though. BYU scored its first points of the game with 41 seconds left on a Lopini Katoa 1-yard touchdown run.
The Huskies appeared to have the shutout secured until Chico McClatcher fumbled a punt with about 4 minutes remaining. That gave the Cougars possession at the UW 24-yard line.
The Huskies had been trying for their first shutout of a ranked opponent since Sept. 22, 1990 _Todd Marinovich's famous "All I saw was purple" game, when UW beat No. 5 USC, 31-0.
The Huskies dominated a BYU team that two weeks ago went to Wisconsin and knocked off the No. 6 Badgers, 24-21.
The Cougars (3-2) never mustered much of a fight Saturday night.
Washington held BYU to just 34 yards rushing and 194 yards of total offense.
Senior linebacker Ben Burr-Kirven, the reigning national defensive player of the week, forced and recovered a fumble in the second quarter, setting up Browning's 9-yard touchdown run in the final seconds of the first half. That gave the Huskies a 21-0 halftime lead.
Browning completed 23 of 25 passes in the most efficient game of his UW career, and in the process broke Cody Pickett's 15-year-old school record for passing yards. Browning came into the game needing 150 yards to catch Pickett, who from 1999-2003 threw for 10,220 yards on 1,419 pass attempts (821 completions).
Browning broke the record on 208 fewer pass attempts than Pickett.
The Huskies (4-1) came into the game ranked No. 8 in the Pac-12 in scoring offense, averaging just 27.3 points per game after a tough September slate that included games against two top defenses in Auburn and Utah.
Saturday night, the Huskies did just about whatever they wanted on offense.
Ahmed started the scoring with a 5-yard run in the first quarter. He added a 5-yard run in the third quarter to push UW's lead to 35-0.
After his rushing touchdown, Browning added a 15-yard touchdown pass to tight end Drew Sample. That was the 100th touchdown Browning was responsible for in his career, becoming just the sixth player in Pac-12 history to do that.
