It has been a dramatic year for flags associated with Washington State.
First, there was the debacle in late October when it was feared that Ol' Crimson might not make it to Arizona for its 167th consecutive College GameDay appearance.
Luckily, GameDay producer Lee Fitting vowed that he wouldn't sleep until he had it in his possession and a backup was shipped from ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. (We also all learned that "UPS express critical" shipping exists -- everyone can say thanks for that, too, because we can agree it was a critical situation.