Washington State football schedule 2023: Who do the Cougars miss on the Pac-12 schedule and what are 3 things to know?
Washington State Football Schedule 2023: 3 Things To Know
Aug 26 OPEN DATE
Sept 2 at Colorado State
Sept 9 Wisconsin
Sept 16 Northern Colorado
Sept 23 Oregon State
Sept 30 OPEN DATE
Oct 7 at UCLA
Oct 14 Arizona
Oct 21 at Oregon
Oct 28 at Arizona State
Nov 4 Stanford
Nov 11 at Cal
Nov 18 Colorado
Nov 24 at Washington
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Washington State Football Schedule What To Know: Who do the Cougars miss from the Pac-12 slate?
Washington got to miss USC and Utah last year, and now it’s Washington State’s turn to catch the mammoth break. The Trojans rolled Wazzu 30-14, the Utes won a 21-17 fight, and now they’re been replaced with Colorado and UCLA being left off the Pac-12 schedule. That’s a solid deal.
Not all is perfect with the Cougar slate, though.
Washington State Football Schedule What Really Matters
Washington State gets five Pac-12 road games. One of them is Washington, but that counts. That also means four of the last six games are away from home, and it gets even worse than that.
The Arizona State game is on the road on October 28th. The only thing that matters about that – besides the travel – is Tempe, Arizona is probably going to be nicer weather-wise than Pullman.
Arizona? That’s a home game, but the weather probably won’t be that bad on October 14th. Colorado is used to playing in snow and cold – if that happens – meaning Stanford on November 4th is likely the only team to potentially be affected by the surroundings.
Washington State Football Schedule What To Know: What does it all really mean?
The Cougars were able to win seven games last year even with USC and Utah to deal with. This schedule is just workable enough to hope to at least his the 2022 mark.
Wisconsin is a home game, but this should be a far more dangerous Badger team. Going to Colorado State and dealing with Northern Colorado shouldn’t be a problem.
Stanford, Arizona, Colorado. None of them went bowling, and all three are home dates. Take care of at least two of the non-conference games, handle the winnable home dates, and pull off a win at, say, Cal and/or Arizona State, and all should be okay.
