For the second consecutive year, just a win in the Apple Cup by the Washington State Cougars will put them in the Pac-12 Championship Game after they moved into a tie for first place in the North Division with a 33-25 win over the Utah Utes on Saturday.
The Cougars are tied with the Stanford Cardinal — who are fresh off a whipping of the Washington Huskies — at 6-2 in the conference, but they hold the tiebreaker by virtue of their head-to-head victory last week. Same as last year, if the Cougs can beat the Huskies, they’ll be heading to Santa Clara, California, to play for their first conference championship since 2002.