1. Husky Road Woes Continue
Humans are pattern seeking creatures. We will often look at a series of unrelated events and believe that there is some underlying issue present throughout. That said, it’s getting pretty hard to ignore the results of the games away from Husky Stadium. Essentially every team will be worse on the road than they are at home. Which is why we’ll use the spread to determine Washington’s underachievement.
Washington is now 1-7 in their past 8 games against the spread outside of Husky Stadium. If you want to extend that all the way back to the beginning of 2017 it improves a little to 3-8 but the Utah game this year is the only time Washington has really performed quite well in a road or neutral site game since basically the Pac-12 title game against Colorado in 2016.