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Miami is out of the Sun Bowl. Can WSU find a replacement opponent in time?

When it was reported last Wednesday that the Miami Hurricanes wouldn’t arrive in El Paso for the Sun Bowl until the day before the game because of a Covid outbreak on their team, it wasn’t much of a stretch to imagine the Hurricanes eventually backing out all together — and that’s exactly what they did on Sunday.

Mere hours after the Washington State Cougars touched down in west Texas ...

... the Hurricanes announced they were withdrawing from the game — which was scheduled for Friday at 9 a.