LOS ANGELES — The Huskies altered their thinking on bowl-prep practices this month.
After losses in their last two bowl games — to Alabama in the College Football Playoff two years ago and to Penn State in the Fiesta Bowl last year — Washington coach Chris Petersen and his staff examined their December routines and made some changes in the buildup to Tuesday’s Rose Bowl against Ohio State.
“We’ve been going pretty hard,” Petersen said last week in Seattle. “We’ve been looking at the cycle of our bowl prep and figure out how to tweak that and how to make it right in terms of where do we really spend all of our energy — where do we go hard and where do we back off them and all those types of things.