BERKELEY – Despite making early inroads no other team had against the Pac-12's second-ranked defense, the Cal football team couldn't slow No. 4-ranked Washington's passing attack as the Huskies passed for seven touchdowns and the Bears fell 66-27 at California Memorial Stadium.

Cal gained 362 yards of total offense with Davis Webb completing 23 of 47 passes for 262 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions. Receiver Chad Hansen returned to action with a solid effort, catching five passes for 70 yards and a touchdown. Washington gained 704 yards of its own, led by 378 yards and six touchdowns from quarterback Jake Browning.

Cal (4-5, 2-4 Pac-12) struck first Saturday, turning a bad Washington punt into three points when Matt Anderson converted a 43-yard field goal on the Bears' second offensive series. Washington (9-0, 5-0) countered with its first big play of the evening as Browning found John Ross on a post pattern for a 60-yard touchdown less than two minutes later.

Another field goal got Cal closer but again Washington was again ready with a response. A 34-yard double pass from Dante Pettis to Darrell Daniels and a 67-yard touchdown pass from Browning to Ross pushed the Huskies' lead to 21-6.

The Bears had every intention of keeping their nose to the grindstone, and that resolve manifested itself in the form of a 3-yard quarterback draw for a score by Webb and a 14-yard touchdown pass from Webb to Hansen. That brought Cal to within a point at 21-20 with 9:01 left in the half.

And, it left Cal in rare territory when it came to scoring against the Huskies. The Bears' 13 points in the first quarter are the most yielded by a Washington team that outscored its first eight opponents by a combined 107-7 in the first period.

Washington put the game out of reach from there, scoring 38 unanswered points to take a 59-20 lead early in the fourth quarter. Browning and Ross had the night's most consistent connection, with Ross hauling in six passes for 208 yards and three touchdowns. Patrick Laird capped the scoring for Cal with a 6-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter. The touchdown was Laird's first as a Golden Bear.

"We went in at halftime down two scores, felt like we had missed some opportunities and in the third quarter we just let the game get away from us," Cal head coach Sonny Dykes said. "I think we turned it over on three straight possessions, couldn't get any stops, did not do a good job on third down. I think when you go back and look, certainly that was the story of the first half. I think we converted one third down and it looks like we didn't convert any in the second half. You've got to be able to convert third downs. That's what football games come down to is your ability to stop people on third down and get off the field and your ability to sustain drives on third down. That hurt us today, and obviously we turned the ball over a bunch."

Cal hits the road next week for a Saturday contest at Washington State. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. and the game will be televised by ESPN. After the trip to Pullman, the Bears return to Berkeley for the 119^th Big Game against Stanford. Kickoff for that game has not been announced.