Coach’s Corner: How might WSU use empty sets on offense this season?

This is the latest in our series of stories previewing the 2018 Washington State Cougars football season. For other installments, click here.

Scouting a college football team for their opening game is difficult. Unlike high school teams, which generally have one or two scrimmages, or NFL teams with their preseason schedule, college teams are explicitly barred from lining up against another team in a scrimmage form. Thus, outside of physically being at a practice and watching installation periods or being in meeting rooms, anticipating changes in scheme becomes an operation in guesswork.

The rise in popularity and media coverage of spring games has given us a bit more information, but coaches…