Cougars journey to Metropolis of Angels to play No.6 USC – The Day by day Evergreen

WSU will play USC in third Fox broadcasted recreation of the 12 months

Elite offense versus elite protection. The battle is about to go down within the Coliseum.

USC is at present ranked No.6 within the nation, based on the AP Ballot. 

WSU technically ranked 26th as they had been the staff with essentially the most votes, a complete of 91, not ranked within the prime 25.

The Cougs will enter Los Angeles as a 4-1 staff, they’re coming off a powerful win towards California 28-9. If WSU wins towards USC, it could be the primary time since 2018 that the staff has begun its season going 5-1.

Traditionally, the Cougars don’t fare properly towards the Trojans with an all-time report of 10-62-Four and in LA they’re 6-40-2. The Cougs’ most up-to-date win towards the Trojans was in 2017 once they received 30-27 in Pullman.

A part of what makes USC so nice and what is going to make them nice for years to return is their new head coach Lincoln Riley. Riley is an unbelievable offensive genius, nonetheless designing and calling performs for the Trojans. He has by no means completed with a shedding report after incomes the top teaching job in Oklahoma, in-fact he has by no means misplaced greater than two video games in a season.

WSU head coach Jake Dickert spoke on Riley and his expertise as a head coach.

“I feel Coach Riley clearly is the height offensive thoughts, most likely within the nation. There’s a variety of guys on the market, however he’s nonetheless calling the performs,” Dickert mentioned. “He’s phenomenal. I feel he places his guys in distinctive conditions and he’s so a number of. I feel the way in which he sees it and calls it’s nearly as good as there’s on the market. And that’s why he has all of the accolades.”

Caleb Williams the USC quarterback is a lethal risk, trying like a Heisman candidate. He has thrown for 1,402 yards with 12 touchdowns and one interception with a quarterback score of 85.8. Every of those stats ranks within the prime 25 within the nation. His improvisational expertise are additionally essential to the USC offense as when he’s off-schedule and has time to scramble they appear to be much more profitable.

“That’s an enormous phrase you used there: shut him down. That’s not gonna occur, we’ve started working to regulate [Williams],” Dickert mentioned. “This man’s a weapon and he makes use of each weapon at his disposal, so that you don’t shut down anyone that’s his caliber.”

The WSU protection is as much as the problem of enjoying Riley and Williams nonetheless, on the finish of just about each reply Dickert went into coach speech and mentioned they’re excited and are going to do their finest on Saturday.

The Cougar’s protection is third within the nation with 44-tackles-for-loss. They’re additionally tied for seventh within the nation with 18 sacks.

Each Travion Brown and Nusi Malani spoke concerning the protection protecting to their approach. They mentioned they should preserve to the fundamentals and never get uncontrolled to win this recreation.

The WSU roster hosts 23 completely different gamers which might be from Southern California. Renard Bell mentioned that the stadium is about 5 minutes away from his home.

Bell is worked up to see his household – but additionally excited to get some In-N-Out Burger. He mentioned has a big group of members of the family coming to the sport.

“My mother, dad, sister, two of my uncles, my uncle’s lady, my monitor coach from highschool and his spouse, my buddy Nick. However I’m attempting to get a pair further tickets simply in case anyone else desires to go,” he mentioned.

WSU will face USC at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday within the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The sport will probably be broadcasted nationally by Fox.