t's a long-overdue, much-needed bye week for theWashington State Cougars, who cannot shake the losing bug. They are 1-8 and in last place in thePacific-12 Con

Make it six straight defeats in a continuous tailspin season for the Washington State Cougars. This time it comes at the hands of the San Diego State Aztecs, 26-20. For the last decade or so, losing six games in a season was considered a bad season. Now it’s six straight and eight total on the […]

Oct. 31—WSU QB Owen Eshelman The Cougars' redshirt freshman signal-caller made a couple of glaring mistakes — an errant pass that was picked off in the second quarter and an intentional grounding when WSU was in scoring position in the third — but was otherwise poised and continued to show progress in his third start. In the end, he fell just a few plays short of leading a fourth-quarter ...

Oct. 31—SAN DIEGO — Jaylen Thomas shook his head ever so slightly, almost imperceptibly so, as he thought about one of the problems holding back this Washington State team. The Cougars had just turned in another loss, a 26-20 road setback to San Diego State on Saturday evening, and their secondary had just borne a fair share of the blame for this one. They are slogging through a considerable ...

Hindsight being what it is, maybe it should’ve been easier to see this coming. On their third coach in three seasons with their depth pillaged like a Yukon gold rush stake left unprotected, expectations of the Washington State Cougars finishing at or near the top of the revamped Pac-12 were, perhaps, lofty. Not many programs […]

Oct. 31—SAN DIEGO — One day this winter, when this Washington State football season has come to a merciful end and coach Kirby Moore reflects on his first season with the program, he might sit in his office and ponder how it all went so disastrously wrong. And he might think about how at times, his Cougars were close to getting things right. That was the case in WSU's final game before the bye ...

Oct. 30—Washington State at San Diego State Saturday, 4 p.m. Line: SDSU favored by 2 1/2 TV: CBS Sports Network Radio: 920-AM Key matchup WSU offensive line vs. SDSU defensive line: If anything became clear from the Cougars' last game, a home loss to Boise State, it was this: WSU's offensive line needs serious work. That group now faces an SDSU defensive front that has produced 16 sacks, ...