Cougar Preview From Scout.com

Here is the 2008 Cougar Football Preview from Scout.com. The record predictions seem pretty fair to me.

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Washington State
Realistic best case record with this schedule: 9-4
Barring total disaster worst case record: 4-9
Realistic record: 6-7

Compared to the rest of the Pac 10 there aren't any real breaks with 13 games packed in tight. The one open date (compared to Washington, who has three off weeks) comes before a late October trip to Stanford. It would've been nice to have gotten a break before facing one of the big boys. The non-conference schedule isn't too awful considering the opener against Oklahoma State is played in Seattle. In conference play three of the Pac 10 heavyweights, Cal, Oregon and USC, have to come to Pullman, but there are back-to-back road dates at UCLA and Oregon State in between the showdowns with the Ducks and the Trojans. The nice reward, no matter what happens the rest of the season, is waiting at the end with a trip to Hawaii. If there's no bowl game in sight, going to Honolulu in late November will be like one.

http://cfn.scout.com/2/744504.html