Washington coach Chris Petersen has a game to prepare for this week against Oregon, in a series the Huskies haven't been competitive in a decade.

The two-time national Coach of the Year winner spent part of Wednesday, airing his thoughts on the recruiting services and websites that rank college prospects in an interview on 750-AM.

"There's a couple kids that we are maybe involved with that somebody has said something about their star rating, and, or guys we've paid attention to, and if these star ratings are correct, then I don't know anything about recruiting," said Petersen. "I've thought that for a long time. I mean, I think some of these guys who give them the star rating, kids develop, kids don't develop, kids don't do well, they like to change stars. I think it's so overrated and over-hyped and I don't even think it's a good thing for college football.

"I just think there's so much drama and outside noise involved with it. I know there's so much misinformation in those stars I can't even stand it."

Petersen also said he doesn't put a lot of stock in the way the Heisman trophy is awarded.

"You talk about stars, you talk about the Heisman, you talk about some of these awards. That's why I've just never really paid attention to it because I don't even know what that is, what it means," he said. "I guess the Heisman goes to the best team, one of the top four or five teams, whoever that is, it's the best player. You know, they're going to lose one or two games and that guy's going to have a chance.

"I don't necessarily think it's the best player in college football. That's not what I've seen the last however many years, you know, there's a lot of good players who might play on good teams, but maybe not even great teams, and that guy's not going to get the Heisman."

Hear the entire podcast with Petersen here.

On Shaq Thompson scoring four TDs in six games:

"He just kind of has the 'it' factor. He works really hard. He's a really good kid. He's really fun to be around and then when he plays he's just one of these guys that's around the ball, has good instincts and, ya know, makes plays, and the ball's bounced his way a little bit. It's always interesting how those really good players seem to be around the ball, seem to have the luck."

On being a two-time Bear Bryant Award winner:

"It's awesome. You get a big trophy of Bear Bryant. You know the thing that was so amazing is that both times I went back there, honest to God I thought there is no way in heck I have any chance of winning this. The first time I was completely shocked, and I might have been more shocked the second time because I was like, 'They're not going to give it to a guy a second time.'"

On the timing of fake punts and trick plays:

"We have been real fortunate over the years on some of those plays to execute them and call them at the right time. I called one this Fall that was terrible. I mean, it was so bad on my part. I put our kids in a bad situation, it just shouldn't have been called then. It was too much. We were trying to make something happen against a real good Stanford defense. It was bad. But you're going to also have those. If you're going to take chances, if you're going to take chances on anything in life, you're going to have things blow up on you, and you've got to regroup. But I think you have to be more calculated that I was a few weeks ago... it was too far away. I think it was nine yards or so. I felt like that was a really bad call on my part."

On starting a program from scratch:

"You don't know somebody else's way. You only know your way. And so, when you're coming in and doing things your way and kids are used to it a completely different way, that's really hard on everybody... it's always going to come down to details. Everybody does the big things good. It's always going to come down to little things, but you've got to get the big things right first. And so when you're all new on both sides basically is what you're doing it takes a lot of time to get the big things right, then hopefully you can move to little things which are going to separate you.

On red-shirting and depth:

"I've said this for a long time... I wish we had five years of eligibility and no red-shirting. So you could play freshman late in the year when you start losing all these guys and maybe they're a little more adjusted. I just think it's better for the student-athlete, it's better for the programs. There's not even a rhyme or reason why we shouldn't do that, but we don't do it yet."

On Marcus Mariota:

"He's got it all."

Petersen on where his eyes go first on the post-game stat sheet:

"That's a good question. My eyes are usually all over. Turnovers, third downs, sacks... those things always jump out... I do look at the time of possession and plays. It doesn't matter at all to me on offense, it comes down to how many points you score, but I think there's something to it for your defense. I think you can make it tough on those guys. I think all of us, for the most part, except for a handful of guys have made it harder on our defenses. Just because of going fast, you know, just trying to score as many as you can fast. If you go three-and-out, 'Hey defense, get out there and stop 'em, OK, stop 'em again.'"