With one fewer mustache than it had last season, Washington State’s football team will take to the large patch of turf at Rogers Field Friday at 2 p.m. for the first time this fall, before moving to Lewiston’s Sacjawea Middle School for the next six days.
Replacing mustachioed quarterback-turned-cult hero Gardner Minshew is unquestionably the top priority this fall for a Cougar team that should look relatively familiar just about everywhere else. WSU is returning four of the five starters who appeared on an offensive line that gave up just 13 sacks in 2019, seven of the eight wide receivers that helped Minshew spearhead a historic passing season and a sophomore running back who could be primed for an all-conference year.