“The curse is broken.”
Four words in a tweet sent two minutes before midnight from Roy Manning were perhaps the best way to sum up the collective feelings of Washington State players and coaches Saturday night following a dominant 31-0 win over Montana State at Martin Stadium.
Relief generally isn’t the emotion spilling out of Pac-12 football players when a lesser opponent is handled the way the 24th-ranked Cougars handled the Bobcats. But unlike most of their neighbors in the AP Top 25, the Cougars don’t take wins like these for granted. They haven’t. Maybe they can now.