1973 Washington State

5–⁠6 (4–⁠3 Pac-8), coached by Jim Sweeney. Share

Schedule and results

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

Date	Opponent	Result
Sep 15	atKansas	L 8–⁠29	50%
Sep 22	at13Arizona State	L 9–⁠20	21%
Sep 29	vsIdaho	W 51–⁠24	77%
Oct 6	at1Ohio State	L 3–⁠27	25%
Oct 13	at4USC	L 35–⁠46	14%
Oct 20	vs13UCLA	L 13–⁠24	33%
Oct 27	atStanford	L 14–⁠45	30%
Nov 3	vsOregon	W 21–⁠14	53%
Nov 10	atOregon State	W 13–⁠7	54%
Nov 17	vsCalifornia	W 31–⁠28	61%
Nov 24	atWashington	W 52–⁠26	55%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

How it ended: Beat Washington 52–⁠26; unranked in the final AP poll; 4th in the Pac-8.

In program history: The 43rd-best season in program history by end-of-season Elo (of 111 on file).

Rd 6

Cincinnati Bengals

4 first team, 2 second team

From Wikipedia’s 1973 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

Team	Conf.	Overall	AP final
USC	7–⁠0	9–⁠2–⁠1	8
UCLA	6–⁠1	9–⁠2	12
Stanford	5–⁠2	7–⁠4
Washington State	4–⁠3	5–⁠6
California	2–⁠5	4–⁠7
Oregon	2–⁠5	2–⁠9
Oregon State	2–⁠5	2–⁠9
Washington	0–⁠7	2–⁠9

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