The Washington State Cougars and Stanford Cardinal meet in Pullman on Saturday (1:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) with far less on the line than has been typical over the past four seasons. In 2015, this matchup decided the Pac-12 North. The last three years, both programs have contended for the division title, and those meetings carried with them a lot of weight.
With WSU and Stanford sitting at 4-5, this game has a very different sort of weight attached. This year, each program is trying just to keep a school-record bowl streak alive. WSU is trying to get to a bowl for the fifth straight season, while Stanford is trying to do that for an 11th consecutive time.