Wazzu's Big Gulp Distracts, Then Dazzles the Ducks

Coug fans had quite the day down on the Palouse.

After 15 years of being on ESPN Game Day, Washington State University was finally on ESPN Game Day.

To say the Pac-12's most remote outpost made itself proud is an understatement.

No one's sure how Wazzu does it, but Cougs pop up everywhere, even in the world's other most remote outposts.

 

This also means Cougs can find anyone anywhere, even in remote outposts. Like Key West, where Hemingway secluded himself to write and drink and Mike Leach burrowed in to do Mike Leach things.

One of them is designing plays that no one else would dare, not even if they were drawn up on the street with bottle caps and glass shards.

Plays like this, what he calls the Big Gulp:

 

Kinda cool, but not a real game-changer.

The Cougars ultimately prevailed against the Cowboys, and it's clear that, in his video review afterward, Leach decided to make an adjustment as to where the ball should be when he calls that play.

It's just as clear that one of the tapes Oregon shoulda studied is Wazzu-Wyoming. Dudes got Big Gulped, and it made a huge difference.

 

How do the Ducks not know James 'Booby' Williams is gonna be the dude carrying the mail?

Then again, how do they not tackle him?

But they don't -- early and often -- as Williams makes an incredible run to ignite what'd become a 34-20 victory:

 

 

Yes. Yes it is.

The Cougs are now the Pac-12's only one-loss team, and that remains a sore subject.

Wazzu still has to play Stanford and Colorado on the road and get Washington at home in the Apple Cup. Run the table, and they're in the conference title game for the first time ever.

 

If that happens, it could be a Pac-12 South club taking the big gulp.