The Washington State Cougars made official today what we suspected on Friday: The 2020 Apple Cup will not be played because the team cannot get to the minimum number of players by Friday.
WSU’s game against the Stanford Cardinal this weekend was canceled because the cougars returned a number of positive COVID tests as the team was about to depart for California on Friday, and athletics director Pat Chun said today that there’s no way to see the Cougars getting enough players back by this weekend.
“After assessing the overall status of our football program, we remain under the minimum threshold of 53 available scholarship student-athletes and cannot forecast a scenario that allows us to reach that threshold by the end of the week,” Chun said, via news release.