30 years ago, UW was waylaid by Billy Joe Hobert’s loans. Now, NIL money has transformed college football.

On Nov. 5, 1992 — before name, image and likeness (NIL) laws and booster-backed collectives, before the transfer portal, before college football’s arms race was settled with seven-figure sums — Washington was 8-0, No. 1 in the nation, set for a road test at No. 12 Arizona.