1. The Husky Defense Has to Find Ways to Force Negative Plays
It isn’t a secret that Washington’s defensive philosophy is to allow the opponent small gains time after time while attempting to take away the explosive play. The thought process is that if it takes the offense 10+ plays to score on every drive then the odds say that they’ll make a mistake at some point which will knock them into a situation favorable for the defense. Against UCLA that never happened.
The Huskies had 0 sacks and 0 tackles for loss facing a true freshman QB that had been sacked 14 times in his first 4 starts.