Washington State Cougars Football For 2026

The Washington State  Cougars and

the Oregon State Beavers are the 

only remaining schools in the new

Pac-12 Conference.  How both schools 

do this coming season will give national 

recognition or not. 

Jimmy Rogers who was the Cougars 

head coach moved on during the 

off-season to Iowa State. The Cougars 

lost 37 players to the transfer portal 

with many going to Iowa State.  The

Cougars hired Missouri offensive 

coordinator Kirby Moore who was

born and raised in Washington.

The Cougars have 28 players transferred 

in to help replace those who left. The

Cougars have four starters who came in

the transfer portal along with four on

second string on offense. The big change

is on defense where eight starters on the

depth chart and seven second string at

this point.  The Cougars offense has 

always had a better reputation than 

the defense. With so much change on

the defense side will that show an

improvement. We will see won't we. 

The head coaching change the Cougars

have only 14 incoming freshmen. At

this point none of them are listed  on

the first three strings. It will be interesting 

to see how that effects them the next 

few years. Of those 28 transfers in

only four on offense and four on defense

are starters so in another year the Cougars

mostly likely won't have to deal with as many

to come in. Of course it will depend on how 

good the team is in 2026.  The Cougars 

have seven in special teams with four as

regulars. Go Cougars.