[Each week during the football season I will be breaking down the WSU Cougar’s weekend match up and then predicting the outcome; let’s see if I can get one right!]

Okay, week 2 and I was waaaay off on week 1. I said that WSU would lose a close one to Wisconsin: 27-30. Seems I overestimated the Cougs by about a TD and shorted the Badgers roughly two trips to the endzone. Oops. My bad. Want to know the best part? Last week was so much easier to predict than this week.

This week Wazzu heads to Seattle to take on San Diego State in a “home” game. Currently, WSU is a 14 point favorite and after watching the Coug secondary getting opened up like a cheap whore against the Badgers I think that’s being pretty kind. But the main fact going in is that SDSU is 0-16 against Pac-10 opponents, and as far as I can tell WSU is still in the Pac-10… so that’s a plus.

Another plus is the fact that WSU held their own offensively against the Bagers’ defense which allowed 8 rushing TDs in 2006; 2 against the Cougs last week. Well, SDSU is a team that went 0-4 out of conference last season and only returns 4 starters on defense. I guess this means that the Cougars should, by all means, control the game offensively and really makes that 14 point spread start to make more sense. Sadly, and an even stronger backing of the spread is the fact that despite the Aztecs returning 10 starters on offense… the offense is still rated lower than their defense.

Honestly, this isn’t quite on the same level as Michigan- Appalachian State, but it’s a game that by all means WSU is supposed to win… and here’s how I think it goes down:
WSU runs the ball well against the Aztecs, control most of the game but the Aztecs have a few impressive drives and a few big plays to make the final score:

WSU 32
SDSU 17

Which, yes, means that I think WSU beats SDSU and tops the 14 point spread… barely.