Theo Lawson

Emptying the notebook after a dark night for the Cougars at Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium.

WSU, which didn’t score a touchdown for the first time since a game at Oregon State in 2012, fell to 6-1 and 3-1 in Pac-12 play.

The difference makers in Washington State’s 37-3 loss at Cal on Friday, Oct. 13.

Buried beneath a pile of their own mistakes, the Cougars mercilessly saw their unbeaten season come to an end, losing 37-3 to the Golden Bears, who stole their first Pac-12 win Friday evening in the Bay Area.

Luani, who played for WSU in 2015 and 2016, was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the seventh round of the 2017 NFL Draft.

Defensive end Nnamdi Oguayo is back in the fold for Washington State, but inside linebackers Isaac Dotson and Nate DeRider didn’t make the trip to the Bay Area for tonight’s game against Cal.

Officials from the Pac-12 Conference and the University of California, Berkeley monitored the situation the days leading up to Friday’s game between Cal and Washington State, but determined the air was clean enough to play football.

Dylan Hanser means no disrespect to the rowdy home crowd Washington State gets at Martin Stadium, but the senior linebacker has reason to believe it’s actually easier to play defense when the Cougars are on the road. Just hear him out.

SAN FRANCISCO – As coaches of the teams expected to finish No. 1 and 2 in the Pac-12 this season, Arizona’s Sean Miller and USC’s Andy Enfield understandably were the hottest tickets at the league’s media day Thursday afternoon in downtown San Francisco. Not that anyone wanted to know about Miller’s high-profile recruiting class or Enfield’s veteran backcourt – and if those questions came, they didn’t come before a deluge of inquiries about an FBI investigation that led to the arrest of one Arizona assistant and one USC assistant last month.

Washington State’s head basketball coach visited with Pac-12 media Thursday afternoon in San Francisco during the league’s media day.

The Cougars were picked to finish dead-last in the Pac-12 preseason media poll for the third year in a row, collecting just 33 points – 13 fewer than 11th-place California.

For the second time this season, regional air quality has emerged as a leading storyline in the days ahead of a Washington State football game.

Theo Lawson’s keys for a possible Washington State victory over Cal on Friday at Memorial Stadium.

In five years at Washington State, Erik Powell has experienced ebbs and flows – just about every ebb and every flow and kicker can endure, really – but this is his best season yet, and it’s not by coincidence that the Cougars are in the midst of a pretty strong one themselves.

Is there a trap game on WSU’s schedule? Is this it?

Theo Lawson's picks for Week 7 of the Pac-12 football season.

The Cougars coach has always been an advocate of a 64-team FBS playoff and once again rambled about the subject during Monday’s news conference in Pullman.

The full transcript of Tuesday's Washington State football live chat with Spokesman-Review Cougars beat writer Theo Lawson.

It was announced Monday that the Cougars’ Oct. 21 home game game against Colorado will start at 7:45 p.m. – the fifth WSU game of the season set to kick off at 7:30 or later, but the latest of the batch so far. ESPN will carry the national broadcast.

In a 33-10 win at Oregon on Saturday, Powell connected on all four of his field goal attempts including one that was longer any the fifth-year player had made during his WSU career.

No. 8 Washington State (6-0, 3-0) tries to keep its unbeaten season alive when the Cougars travel to Cal (3-3, 0-3) for their second Friday night game in three weeks.

The weekly Pac-12 power rankings from Spokesman-Review Washington State beat writer Theo Lawson.

Washington State defensive coordinator Alex Grinch talks about the depth on defense this season, rotating players to different positions and the team’s performance against Oregon.

The Cougars are fully committed to the idea that every game is a substantial one. Which is to say, it’s substantial until it’s over. Then the following game becomes the most substantial, and so on and so forth.