winning the Prem a few years ago or Texas-Western winning the NCAA title as far as bettering preseason "expert" projections.
Plenty of us aren't surprised at all by what Vegas is doing. Especially those that refused to put any stock in preseason "projections" the same way we disregard annual college football top 25 polls that are purely speculative.
Vegas showed within the first two months of the season that the pundits were as wrong about them as they often are about many pro and college sports projections.