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2002 Washington State Cougars football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	2002
team	Washington State Cougars
sport	football
image	2000 WSU Football Helmet.png
image_size	200
conference	Pacific-10 Conference
short_conf	Pac-10
CoachRank	10
APRank	10
record	10–3
conf_record	7–1
head_coach	Mike Price
hc_year	14th
off_coach	Mike Levenseller
oc_year	2nd
off_scheme	Spread
def_coach	Bill Doba
dc_year	9th
def_scheme	[4–3](4-3-defense)
captain	Jason Gesser
captain2	Curtis Nettles
captain3	Marcus Trufant
stadium	Martin Stadium
champion	Pac-10 co-champion
bowl	[Rose Bowl](2003-rose-bowl)
bowl_result	L 14–34 vs. [Oklahoma](2002-oklahoma-sooners-football-team)

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.

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, but lost to unranked Washington in triple overtime in the Apple Cup at Pullman; WSU regrouped and beat UCLA by three touchdowns two weeks later. The seventh-ranked Cougars were invited to the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, but were soundly defeated by the Oklahoma Sooners, 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. 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.

Schedule

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Game summaries

USC

Washington State's first win over USC in Pullman in sixteen years.

Personnel

Coaching staff

Head coach: Mike Price
Assistants: Robb Akey, Chris Ball, Bob Connelly, Bill Doba, Kasey Dunn, Mike Levenseller, Robin Pflugrad, Aaron Price, Mike Walker }

Roster

Mike Levenseller – (OC)
Bill Doba – (DC)
Chris Ball – (DB)

2002 Cougars in professional football

Hamza Abdullah
Calvin Armstrong
Erik Coleman
Devard Darling
Jason David
Rien Long
Karl Paymah
Marcus Trufant

References

Grummert, Dale. (October 6, 2002). "Cougars finish with classic flair". Lewiston Morning Tribune.
Richardson, Vince. (October 7, 2002). "Cougar celebration". Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
Korte, Tim. (November 24, 2002). "Anderson comes up big as Huskies clip Cougars". Eugene Register-Guard.
Nadel, John. (December 8, 2002). "Gesser's heroic afternoon puts WSU in Rose Bowl". Eugene Register-Guard.
Trimmer, Dave. (January 2, 2003). "Handful of thorns". Spokesman-Review.
Grummert, Dale. (January 2, 2003). "A thorny sendoff". Lewiston Morning Tribune.
Canfield, Owen. (January 2, 2003). "Sooners clobber the Cougs". Eugene Register-Guard.
Grummert, Dale. (December 18, 2002). "Mike Price goes out with Tide". Lewiston Morning Tribune.
Richardson, Vince. (December 18, 2002). "Southern comfort". Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
Zenor, John. (May 5, 2003). "Down and out". Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
Yaeger, Don. (May 12, 2003). "Bad Behavior - How he met his Destiny at a strip club - Mike Price: Fired".
Grummert, Dale. (December 19, 2002). "Crimson ties". Lewiston Morning Tribune.
(September 22, 2002). "Trufant too much as Cougs level Montana State". Kitsap Sun.
[http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/scores102/102278/20021005NCAAFWASHST----0nr.htm USA Today.] Retrieved April 24, 2013.
2012 Washington State Cougars football information guide.
(November 9, 2002). "Today's lineups". Eugene Register-Guard.
(November 23, 2002). "Apple Cup preview: WSU". Spokesman-Review.
(December 31, 2002). "Rose Bowl by the numbers". Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
(January 1, 2003). "Rose Bowl matchups". Lewiston Morning Tribune.

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