Now that Washington State (7-3 overall, 5-2 Pac-12) is ranked No. 24 nationally and has won four of its last five games to secure a seventh win, the Cougars one of the hottest bowl eligible teams in the Pac-12.
WSU hasn’t been to a bowl game since the 2013 New Mexico Bowl, and before that, the Cougars’ last appearance in a bowl came in the 2003 Holiday Bowl. So the fan base is understandably buzzing with bowl fervor and will likely travel well — both of which work in WSU’s favor because bowl officials take stuff like that into consideration when making bowl selections.