Don't win this game for any of the alums, fans, or anyone else. Win it for him.
Three simple letters have adorned the back of Washington State's helmets this year: ESF. No matter the jersey combos, no matter the stadium, no matter the game, those letters have been on the back of every helmet a WSU student-athlete wears onto the football field. The man represented by those three simple letters has been on the back of every player's mind for 11 games now. Throughout the year, every athletic team has carried that simple reminder of him. Somewhere on their uniform, a memory through his initials of what he meant to this institution and the people who love it and him.