en-us SportSpyder - The Latest Washington State Cougars Football News https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/news Wed, 11 Nov 2026 04:26:28 GMT https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58643086 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58643086 false false Cougars Battle Tough at Duquesne, Lose In Final Seconds - Washington State University Athletics - Official Athletics Site Javascript is required. Tip-off is scheduled for 10 a.m. Wed, 11 Nov 2026 04:26:19 GMT https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58643085 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58643085 false false A strong first half for the Washington State Cougars was ultimately erased by an ugly, foul-ridden second half as they fell to the Duquesne Dukes 72-71. WSU (0-3) seemed on their way to their first true away victory on the east coast since 1978. With Ronnie Harrison making his debut after missing the first two […] Wed, 11 Nov 2026 04:10:24 GMT Nate Dahl https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58642976 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58642976 false false Wed, 11 Nov 2026 03:23:55 GMT https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58642664 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58642664 false false WSU's Kaden Beatty watched the wheels come off at his previous school when the losses started to pile up. It's a learning experience Beatty brought with him to Pullman. Wed, 11 Nov 2026 01:16:10 GMT Greg Woods https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58641744 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58641744 false false Cougar wideout has come a long way from his days as a track star playing football Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:16:57 GMT Jamey Vinnick https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58641295 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58641295 true false Former WSU WR Michael Bumpus (Bump & Stacy) is joined by Washington State Cougars head football coach Kirby Moore to discuss what the Cougs learned during th... Tue, 10 Nov 2026 23:41:37 GMT Seattle Sports https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58640866 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58640866 false false PULLMAN — Kaden Beatty remembers the dark days like they just vanished over the horizon. He was in his second and final year at Kent State, where things weren’t just bad. They were miserable. Back in 2024, Beatty played nearly 400 snaps in six starts for the Golden Flashes, who slogged through loss after loss, blowout after blowout, making things interesting in only two of those setbacks. He got home for a sack against Ball State, which won by two. He surged in for a tackle for loss against Bowling Green, which won by three scores. No matter what he did, no matter how well he played, his team just kept losing. So, Beatty remembers, he began to feel sorry for himself. His feet started to meander, his mind began to wonder. Can I just get to next season? he thought to himself. Am I gonna leave this place? “That’s just not how it is here,” Beatty said. Beatty was referring to this Washington State team, which finds itself in a similar position. The Cougars have won just one game this fall, a blowout win over an FCS club. Since mid-September, the Cougars have lost six straight games, struggling to find anything resembling consistency in coach Kirby Moore’s debut season. They’ve tried all manner of adjustments — Moore took over playcalling duties last month, then changed quarterbacks — and nothing has resulted in a win, going 1-8 overall. Naturally, that puts the Cougars at risk of splintering in the same ways that those Golden Flashes did. Back then, Beatty remembers, “it was kinda clashing amongst the team, amongst the coaches.” Not the case here in Pullman, he says, explaining that these Cougs have a stronger sense of resolve and resiliency. Much of that starts with Beatty, one of six captains on this WSU team. In his second season as a Cougar, he has emerged as one of the faces of the program, a vocal leader and a charismatic defensive lineman. During TV timeouts, he’s on the sideline dancing, urging the Gesa Field crowd to match his energy. After his best plays — he has 21 tackles, one for loss — he’s screaming to himself, celebrating with teammates. If you could make a leader in a lab like you were creating a player in Madden, you would probably end up with someone like Beatty, who has used his compelling combination of leadership and physicality and likeability to do his part in keeping this WSU team together. He plays a thankless position, often invisible the chaos at the line of scrimmage, which makes his maturity even more remarkable. In fact, at halftime of WSU’s win over FCS Duquesne, the Cougars were only up one score. According to defensive end Matyus McLain, the most motivation came from Beatty, whose Kent State team lost to FCS Saint Francis in that 2024 season. “I met with Kaden during the bye week,” Moore said. “That is a guy who loves football, and so every day when we get the opportunity to go out there between the lines, he’s energizing his teammates. He’s energizing the staff. I think he’s playing at a high level, and so we gotta do that throughout these last three weeks.” “He’s a great leader,” WSU running back Maxwell Woods said in September. “He’s really like the voice of the team. He’s a guy like you’ll never really know if he’s down, if he’s happy. He always kinda stays at that same energetic level.” What’s interesting is this: Over the last two years, how has Beatty evolved in his approach to losing seasons? What did that take? Back at Kent State, where he redshirted during the Golden Flashes’ one-win 2023 season and emerged as a key player during their winless 2024 campaign, he found himself focused on himself. “It was all about me, me, me,” he said. When he thought about the season, his mind drifted to himself: Why is this happening to me? Why am I in this situation? “And that’s not what it is at all here. It’s bigger than me,” Beatty said. “I feel worse for these fans and worse for this place than I do myself because they’re really rooting for us. They’re getting behind us, and we’re not giving them the product that they want. Tears me apart. So all I can do is the next thing. All I can do is figure out — how can I be better for us? And so that’s all I’m focused on.” Beatty is right that the Cougars aren’t giving fans the product that they want, and for the first six weeks of the season, his group wasn’t the one at fault. Those honors went to the Cougars’ offense, which failed to beat a single FBS team under quarterback Caden Pinnick, whose struggles made things exponentially difficult on not only his offense, but his team’s defense as well. As a result, Moore benched Pinnick for redshirt freshman Owen Eshleman, who has looked better than his predecessor in his three starts. But in the Cougars’ last two losses, a home setback to Boise State and a road defeat to San Diego State, their defense has begun to fall behind too. The Cougars missed 10 tackles against the Aztecs and another 18 against the Broncos. They also didn’t register any sacks in those two games, keeping their season... Tue, 10 Nov 2026 23:07:49 GMT Greg Woods https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58640455 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58640455 true false No, Colorado State is not close to emulating the perfect team in college football. But the Rams are exciting, unpredictable and have more drama on a daily basis Tue, 10 Nov 2026 22:46:26 GMT Todd Milles https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58640143 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58640143 false false Former WSU WR Michael Bumpus (Bump & Stacy) is joined by Washington State Cougars head football coach Kirby Moore to discuss what the Cougs learned during th... Tue, 10 Nov 2026 22:27:05 GMT Seattle Sports https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58639856 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58639856 false false Washington State Returns to Gesa Field to host Colorado State - Washington State University Athletics - Official Athletics Site Javascript is required. He was 88. Tue, 10 Nov 2026 22:03:38 GMT https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58639461 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58639461 false false – Thirteen Washington State Cougars are in the NFL. Here is how they faired this past week. Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:59:21 GMT https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58638513 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58638513 false false Cougars Head to Sacramento for NCAA West Regional - Washington State University Athletics - Official Athletics Site Javascript is required. PT. placed 13th, and finished 15th. Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:59:11 GMT https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58638511 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58638511 false false Cougars need to find way to turn pressures into sacks Tue, 10 Nov 2026 18:12:52 GMT Jamey Vinnick https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58636098 https://sportspyder.com/cf/washington-state-cougars-football/articles/58636098 true false