I'll confess that this preview was harder for me to write than I originally thought it would be. Washington is a team that presents a rather bizarre conundrum that doesn't exist with other teams in the Pac-12. While Washington has the best defense in the entire Pac-12 and has a lot of strong qualities to write about, they do so without any star players. Indeed, they don't have a single five-star recruit on their entire team, and with the exception of some local recruits, even four-star recruits on their team are far and few between.
So, how do you reconcile this elite, suffocating defense with the fact that there isn't a single star player to speak of?