So how can you watch when those teams play one another and one of them has to lose? No more ties in college football, remember (which I think is a bad rule).
I’d rather see WA win since I now live up here and enjoy the tradition of UW football. They’ve had a good program in the past, so its fun to watch. WSU is in a wonderful little town in Eastern WA.
They are, frankly, sick in the head out there in terms of their affinity for WSU everything. Once you’ve gone to WSU, even if you didn’t graduate, you’re a Cougar, and they just HATE UW. It even effects business relationships.
It’s not to the level of Auburn/Alabama in its hostility, but its up there.
Cal is where I grew up, and I knew it when Cal was one of the very best institutions of higher learning. Now its a joke - it nearly lost its engineering accreditation in EE in the eighties, for example.
I more feel sorry for Cal now. It’s actually doing better as a sports program as its prominence as an academic institution has declined. That’s been weird to watch.