This Washington State senior class badly wanted to go out with a Pac-12 championship. But their chance to clinch the program’s first Pac-12 North division title evaporated by the end of the third quarter of another eventual defeat to their arch-nemesis UW in Saturday night’s Apple Cup at Husky Stadium.
By that point, down 34-0 in a game that spiraled out of WSU’s reach after the second of Myles Gaskin’s four touchdown runs, the Cougars had to face the reality that the coveted trip to the Pac-12 championship game wasn’t going to happen.
The Apple Cup was a night of miscues for the Cougars (9-3 overall, 6-3), who dropped from 14th to 21st in the latest Associated Press top 25 poll released Sunday.