2007 Washington State Cougars football team

The 2007 Washington State Cougars football team represented Washington State University in the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by fifth-year head coach Bill Doba and played its home games on campus at Martin Stadium in Pullman, with one at Qwest Field in Seattle.

2007 Washington State Cougars football
ConferencePacific-10 Conference
2007 record5–7 (3–6 Pac-10)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorMike Levenseller (7th season)
Defensive coordinatorBill Doba (10th season)
Captains
  • Husain Abdullah
  • Alex Brink
  • Michael Bumpus
  • Greg Trent
Home stadiumMartin Stadium
(Capacity: 35,117)
2007 Pacific-10 Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
No. 3 USC +  7 –2     11 –2  
No. 16 Arizona State +  7 –2     10 –3  
No. 25 Oregon State  6 –3     9 –4  
No. 23 Oregon  5 –4     9 –4  
UCLA  5 –4     6 –7  
Arizona  4 –5     5 –7  
California  3 –6     7 –6  
Washington State  3 –6     5 –7  
Stanford  3 –6     4 –8  
Washington  2 –7     4 –9  
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2007 Apple Cup was played a week later than normal to allow for both Washington and Washington State to have a bye, as neither had one in 2006. This marked the first time the Apple Cup has been played after Thanksgiving since 1978.[1]

Three days after leading the Cougars to a 42–35 victory in the Apple Cup, head coach Bill Doba was fired on November 26.[2] Doba posted a 30–29 record during his 5 seasons as head coach; and led the Cougars to only 1 bowl game, a 28–20 victory over Texas in the Holiday Bowl in his first season.

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
September 112:30 PMat No. 7 Wisconsin*
ABCL 21–4281,547
September 84:00 PMSan Diego State*
W 45–1746,290
September 157:00 PMIdaho*
FSNNWW 45–2832,064
September 225:00 PMat No. 1 USC
ABCL 14–4786,876
September 297:00 PMat Arizona
FSNNWL 20–4850,945
October 61:00 PMNo. 18 Arizona State
  • Martin Stadium
  • Pullman, Washington
FSNL 20–2335,117
October 1312:30 PMat No. 8 Oregon
L 7–5358,749
October 273:30 PMUCLA
  • Martin Stadium
  • Pullman, Washington
FSNW 27–731,027
November 37:00 PMat California
FSNL 17–2055,711
November 103:30 PMStanford
  • Martin Stadium
  • Pullman, Washington
FSNNWW 33–1731,110
November 173:30 PMOregon State
  • Martin Stadium
  • Pullman, Washington
FSNNWL 17–5222,660
November 244:00 PMat Washington
FSNW 42–3572,888

Personnel
2007 Washington State Cougars football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos.#NameClass
  Jeshua Anderson
QB Alex Brink
  Michael Bumpus
TE Devin Frischknecht
WR Brandon Gibson
RB Chris Ivory
 Defense
Pos.#NameClass
  Alfonso Jackson
 Special teams
Pos.#NameClass
K Romeen Abdollmohammadi
Head coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches
    Legend
    • (C) Team captain
    • (S) Suspended
    • (I) Ineligible
    • Injured
    • Redshirt

    Game summaries

    Wisconsin
    1 234Total
    Washington State 14 070 21
    • Wisconsin 14 14014 42

    San Diego State
    1 234Total
    San Diego St 10 007 17
    • Washington State 10 14147 45

    Idaho
    1 234Total
    Idaho 14 770 28
    • Washington State 7 2477 45

    USC
    1 234Total
    Washington State 7 070 14
    • USC 14 13137 47

    Arizona
    1 234Total
    Washington State 7 670 20
    • Arizona 10 101414 48

    Arizona State
    1 234Total
    • Arizona State 0 7133 23
    Washington State 0 1073 20
    • Date: October 6
    • Location: Martin Stadium, Pullman, Washington

    Oregon
    1 234Total
    Washington State 0 070 7
    • Oregon 17 23103 53

    UCLA
    1 234Total
    UCLA 7 000 7
    • Washington State 10 0314 27
    • Date: October 27
    • Location: Martin Stadium, Pullman, Washington

    California
    1 234Total
    Washington State 0 0611 17
    • California 7 337 20

    Stanford
    1 234Total
    Stanford 0 0170 17
    • Washington State 3 71013 33
    • Date: November 10
    • Location: Martin Stadium, Pullman, Washington

    Oregon State
    1 234Total
    • Oregon State 21 10714 52
    Washington State 0 377 17
    • Date: November 17
    • Location: Martin Stadium, Pullman, Washington

    Washington
    See also: 2007 Washington Huskies football team and Apple Cup
    Washington State Cougars (4–7) at Washington Huskies (4–7)
    1 2 34Total
    Washington St 7 14 71442
    Washington 10 10 8735

    at Husky Stadium • Seattle, Washington

    • Date: November 24
    • Game time: 4:00 p.m. PDT
    • Game weather: Cloudy • 45 °F (7 °C) • Wind —
    • Game attendance: 72,888
    • Referee: Jack Wood
    • Box Score

    100th Apple Cup

    References
    1. "Cougars Finalize 2007 Schedule; Apple Cup Played Thanksgiving Weekend :: Apple Cup to be played after Thanksgiving for first time since 1978 season". Archived from the original on 2007-03-08. Retrieved 2007-03-04.
    2. Cougars | WSU fires head coach Doba | Seattle Times Newspaper
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