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The 2002 Washington State Cougars football team represented Washington State University as a member of Pacific-10 Conference the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by Mike Price in his 14th and final season as head coach, and played its home games on campus at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Washington.
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Pac-10 co-champion | |
Conference | Pacific-10 Conference |
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Coaches | No. 10 |
AP | No. 10 |
Record | 10–3 (7–1 Pac-10) |
Head coach |
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Offensive coordinator | Mike Levenseller (2nd season) |
Offensive scheme | Spread |
Defensive coordinator | Bill Doba (9th season) |
Base defense | 4–3 |
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Home stadium | Martin Stadium |
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No. 10 Washington State $+ | 7 | – | 1 | 10 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 4 USC %+ | 7 | – | 1 | 11 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arizona State | 5 | – | 3 | 8 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UCLA | 4 | – | 4 | 8 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oregon State | 4 | – | 4 | 8 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
California | 4 | – | 4 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Washington | 4 | – | 4 | 7 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oregon | 3 | – | 5 | 7 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arizona | 1 | – | 7 | 4 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stanford | 1 | – | 7 | 2 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Washington State finished the regular season with an overall record of 10–2 and mark of 7–1 in the conference play, sharing the Pac-10 title with USC. They defeated the Trojans in overtime in early October,[1][2] but lost to unranked Washington in triple overtime in the Apple Cup at Pullman;[3] WSU regrouped and beat UCLA by three touchdowns two weeks later.[4] The seventh-ranked Cougars were invited to the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, but were soundly defeated by the Oklahoma Sooners,[5][6][7] and dropped to tenth in the final rankings.
The Rose Bowl was the final game for Price at Washington State. He left to become the head football coach at the University of Alabama, but never coached a game for the Crimson Tide.[7][8][9][10][11] Bill Doba, longtime defensive coordinator for the cougars, was promoted to head coach for the 2003 season, and he led the Cougar program through 2007.[9][12]
Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
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August 31 | 12:00 pm | vs. Nevada* | No. 12 |
| W 31–7 | 63,588 | |
September 7 | 3:00 pm | Idaho* | No. 11 | W 49–14 | 30,110 | ||
September 14 | 12:30 pm | at No. 6 Ohio State* | No. 10 | ABC | L 7–25 | 104,553 | |
September 21 | 2:00 pm | Montana State* | No. 16 |
| W 45–28 | 23,713 | |
September 28 | 2:00 pm | at California | No. 16 | W 48–38 | 29,297 | ||
October 5 | 4:00 pm | No. 18 USC![]() | No. 17 |
| TBS | W 30–27 OT | 36,861 |
October 12 | 2:00 pm | at Stanford | No. 12 | W 36–11 | 30,750 | ||
October 26 | 7:00 pm | at Arizona | No. 9 | FSN | W 21–13 | 46,462 | |
November 2 | 12:30 pm | No. 16 Arizona State | No. 8 |
| ABC | W 44–22 | 37,444 |
November 9 | 12:30 pm | No. 15 Oregon | No. 5 |
| ABC | W 32–21 | 37,600 |
November 23 | 3:30 pm | Washington | No. 3 |
| FSN | L 26–29 3OT | 37,600 |
December 7 | 1:30 pm | at UCLA | No. 7 | ABC | W 48–27 | 56,335 | |
January 1, 2003 | 2:00 pm | vs. No. 8 Oklahoma* | No. 7 |
| ABC | L 14–34 | 86,848 |
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Conference opponent not played this season: Oregon State
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Washington State's first win over USC in Pullman in sixteen years.[18]
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