WSU football

Utah and Washington State will finish the regular season this weekend at Rice-Eccles Stadium with a bowl spot on the line.

The Pac-12 Conference has set the schedule for its final weekend of football games. Six games will be played, Washington at No. 16 USC in the Pac-12 championship game on Friday.

Washington State coach Nick Rolovich acknowledges his football team had a general meltdown in falling behind by four touchdowns in the first quarter of a loss at USC.

No. 16 Southern California cruised to a 38-13 victory over Washington State. Amon-Ra St. Brown caught four touchdown passes from Kedon Slovis in a spectacular first quarter.

In a statement released earlier today )Nov. 25) by the Pac-12 Conference, the Washington Huskies WILL play this weekend despite the Washington State Cougars having to cancel the 2020 incarnation of the Apple Cup slated for this Friday at Martin Stadium in Pullman due to a coronavirus outbreak.

The Apple Cup between Washington and Washington State has been canceled due to the Cougars not having enough scholarship players available because of positive COVID-19 tests.

The Pac-12 has established cancellation and tiebreaker policies for its virus-truncated football season.

The return of football in the Pac-12 in November will bring some much needed relief to cash-strapped athletic departments trying to weather the coronavirus pandemic.

In a complete 180, the Pac-12 Conference announced today (Sept. 24) that they will, indeed, return to play a truncated college football season.

The Pac-12 university presidents and chancellors will meet Friday and be presented options for staging a fall football season. but a vote from the group is not expected.