1971 Washington State

4–⁠7 (2–⁠5 Pac-8), coached by Jim Sweeney. Share

Schedule and results

Biggest upsetBeat No. 10 Stanford 24–⁠23Oct 23
Stanford was ranked No. 10, above it.

Each game’s margin, wins above the line and losses below; orange marks an upset win.

Date	Opponent	Result
Sep 11	atKansas	L 0–⁠34	27%
Sep 18	vsArizona	L 28–⁠39	41%
Sep 25	atMinnesota	W 31–⁠20	21%
Oct 2	atUtah	W 34–⁠12	23%
Oct 9	vsUCLA	L 21–⁠34	49%
Oct 16	vsCalifornia	L 23–⁠24	35%
Oct 23	at10Stanford	W 24–⁠23	10%
Oct 30	vsOregon	W 31–⁠21	37%
Nov 6	at17USC	L 20–⁠30	18%
Nov 13	atOregon State	L 14–⁠21	32%
Nov 20	atWashington	L 20–⁠28	17%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

How it ended: Lost to Washington 28–⁠20; unranked in the final AP poll; 7th in the Pac-8.

In program history: The 94th-best season in program history by end-of-season Elo (of 111 on file).

Rd 4

Cincinnati Bengals

4 first team

From Wikipedia’s 1971 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

Team	Conf.	Overall	AP final
Stanford	6–⁠1	9–⁠3	10
USC	3–⁠2–⁠1	6–⁠4–⁠1	20
Washington	4–⁠3	8–⁠3	19
California	4–⁠3	6–⁠5
Oregon State	3–⁠3	5–⁠6
Oregon	2–⁠4	5–⁠6
Washington State	2–⁠5	4–⁠7
UCLA	1–⁠4–⁠1	2–⁠7–⁠1

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