EWU, WSU resume long-time, limited rivalry
When Eastern Washington and Washington State last met in Pullman in 2012, the Cougars withstood a second-half comeback by the Eagles and won 24-20. Eastern had plenty of opportunities, and near misses, like this pass where Damante Hornton of WSU broke up a possible scoring play to EWU's Brandon Kaufman.
Just 90 miles separate Cheney and Pullman, but until 2012, the Washington State Cougars and Eastern Washington Eagles had faced each other just twice in football.
Those two meetings were thrashings, won by Washington State 46-0 in 1907 and 73-0 in 1908 and it took over a century to revisit.
That 2012 game was WSU head coach Mike Leach's debut in Pullman and he watched as the Cougars had to withstand an Eagles' rally for a 24-20 victory in front of a sell-out crowd of 33,598.
But underachieving against Big Sky Conference schools has not been anything new for the Cougars who opened the 2015 seas...
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