Consider Washington Huskies edge Bralen Trice perplexed.
The No. 2-ranked team in the country is undefeated, won the Pac-12 Championship after defeating the Oregon Ducks for the second time, and is somehow the underdog in the rematch of last year’s Alamo Bowl win over the No. 3 Texas Longhorns in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans — DraftKings has the Longhorns as four-point favorites, a line that has barely moved since it was released nearly a month ago.
“I think it’s crazy,” Trice said Friday. “Just the level of disrespect we get, I can’t really understand it, but it helps us because it makes us have our backs against the wall as we go into these games, ready to play even harder because we are the underdogs.