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2005 Washington State Cougars football team

American college football season

Field	Value
sport	football
year	2005
team	Washington State Cougars
image	[[File:Washington_State_Football_Helmet_2000-2010.png	300px]]
image_size	60x60
conference	Pacific-10 Conference
short_conf	Pac-10
record	4–7
conf_record	1–7
head_coach	Bill Doba
hc_year	3rd
off_coach	Mike Levenseller
oc_year	5th
def_coach	Robb Akey
dc_year	3rd
off_scheme	Spread
def_scheme	[4–3](4-3-defense)
stadium	Martin Stadium

The 2005 Washington State Cougars football team represented Washington State University in the Pacific-10 Conference during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by third-year head coach Bill Doba, WSU played its home games at on campus Martin Stadium in Pullman, with one at Qwest Field in Seattle.

Season

Washington State was picked fifth in the pre-season Pac-10 conference poll. They were even classified by some as a sleeper pick for the national championship, with Alex Brink at the helm. They opened with three non-conference wins in September, but the results were different in league play. In the Pac-10 opener at Oregon State, Brink passed for over 500 yards, but WSU lost by eleven.

The Cougars lost their next three games (Stanford, UCLA, Cal), by a combined ten points; their inability to close out games cost them. After a blowout loss in Los Angeles to top-ranked USC, three-point setbacks at home to Arizona State and #11 Oregon followed, as the conference losing streak extended to seven games. In the Apple Cup at Seattle, they defeated struggling rival Washington by four points to finish at 4–7 overall.

Schedule

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Game summaries

Washington

References

Rodman, Bob. (October 2, 2005). "OSU defense finally makes its case". Eugene Register-Guard.
Nadel, John. (October 30, 2005). "Trojans determine BCS stands for Beating Cougars Soundly". Eugene Register-Guard.
Clark, Bob. (November 13, 2005). "Ducks cool, collected". Eugene Register-Guard.
Fox, Tom. (November 21, 2005). "Not a bad Apple". Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160514000049/http://espn.go.com/ncf/recap?id=253230264 ESPN]

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