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Texas-Washington Sugar Bowl confidential: Keys to victory

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It's easy to get entranced by Texas in the matchup with Washington in the College Football Playoff semifinals on Monday.

It has one of the sport's biggest brands, a coach in Steve Sarkisian who once ditched Washington for a glitzier job and pushed around Alabama in Tuscaloosa earlier in the season.

But Washington is undefeated, has a quarterback in Michael Penix Jr., who possess one of the best arms in college football in recent seasons, and has quietly strung together the sport's longest winning streak at 20 games.