2018 The Year Of Cougar Football

The WSU Cougar football team finished 2018 at the Alamo Bowl with the win over Iowa State 28-26 and set the school record for the most wins (11-2) in history. The Cougs were led by grad transfer student Gardner Minshew (QB) in a year that seemed most improbable after the death of Tyler Hilinski, the QB heir apparent after Luke Falk who previously set school QB passing records the prior couple of years. Even former Coug great, Ryan Leaf (QB), predicted no more than 3 wins for WSU in 2018. Instead, Gardner Minshew, with the best mustache since Burt Reynolds, put the team and the Cougar Nation on his back and carried WSU to what best could be described as the “Year of Cougar Football.