Washington moved to 4-0 on the season Saturday night with a 59-32 win over Cal.

Husky quarterback Michael Penix Jr. once again ended his day early after throwing for 304 yards and four touchdowns on 19-of-25 passing. But it wasn’t just the quarterback this time. Washington was outstanding in all three phases of the game in the opening 30 minutes and ran away with another blowout victory.

Here are three takeaways from the game.

A start that doomed the Bears

Washington was outscored 6-0 in the first quarter against Boise State in Week 1.

In three games since, UW has outscored its opponents 52-9.

Unless you can jump on this team early, you’re in trouble. They will just keep coming at teams. There is no play that is ever out of reach for this offense. Give the Huskies the football with 40 seconds left and they’ll go for a touchdown. Give Michael Penix Jr. a chance to look downfield and he’s going to connect with one of UW’s stars and burn the secondary.

UW dropped a 45-point half on Cal while running just 30 offensive plays.

Edefuan Ulofoshio opened the scoring with a 45-yard pick-six off of Cal quarterback Ben Finley. Then Rome Odunze had an 83-yard punt return for a touchdown. Then Penix started letting bombs off the chain.

The Huskies averaged 10 yards a play and held Cal to just 5. UW picked off Finley three times.

That kind of start against UW will have teams in a multi-touchdown hole in the blink of an eye. It happened to Michigan State, and it happened to Cal a week later.

No McMillan, no problem

Washington head coach Kalen DeBoer said after last week’s game he didn’t expect Jalen McMillan — who exited the Michigan State win and didn’t play the second half — to miss any tie. But McMillan was standing on the sideline without pads when the Huskies kicked off against Cal.

Perhaps he’s actually facing an injury that’s more serious than initially believed to be. Or maybe UW thought it could get past the Golden Bears without him.

Odunze and Ja’Lynn Polk make the latter pretty easy to believe.

Odunze had more than 200 all-purpose yards and three scores. Polk went for 127 yards and two scores on eight catches, giving him 100 yards and a score in three of UW’s four games so far.

The Huskies have had at least two 100-yard receivers in every game this season. It’s the best room in the country.

Penalties remain an issue

The Huskies have at least seven penalties in each of their last three outings.

If there’s an area coach Kalen DeBoer will harp on after a 59-32 win, it’s the lack of clinical play. The Huskies were flagged nine times for 78 yards. They were hit with 11 penalties for 110 yards the week prior, and seven times for 93 yards the week before that.

That’ll need to get cleaned up.