1954 Washington State

4–⁠6 (3–⁠4 Pacific Coast Conference), coached by Alton Kircher. Share

Schedule and results

Each game’s margin, wins above the line and losses below.

Date	Opponent	Result
Sep 17	at17USC	L 0–⁠39	27%
Sep 25	vsPacific	W 18–⁠0	52%
Oct 2	at12Texas	L 14–⁠40	24%
Oct 9	vsOregon State	W 34–⁠6	61%
Oct 16	atCalifornia	L 7–⁠17	38%
Oct 23	vsIdaho	L 0–⁠10	82%
Oct 30	atStanford	W 30–⁠26	26%
Nov 6	atMichigan State	L 6–⁠54	25%
Nov 13	atOregon	L 14–⁠26	31%
Nov 20	vsWashington	W 26–⁠7	61%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

How it ended: Beat Washington 26–⁠7; unranked in the final AP poll; 5th in the Pacific Coast Conference.

In program history: The 74th-best season in program history by end-of-season Elo (of 111 on file).

2 second team

From Wikipedia’s 1954 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

Team	Conf.	Overall	AP final
UCLA	6–⁠0	9–⁠0	2
USC	6–⁠1	8–⁠4	17
Oregon	5–⁠3	6–⁠4
California	4–⁠3	5–⁠5
Washington State	3–⁠4	4–⁠6
Stanford	2–⁠4	4–⁠6
Idaho	1–⁠2	4–⁠5
Washington	1–⁠6	2–⁠8
Oregon State	1–⁠6	1–⁠8

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied.