PULLMAN, Wash. (June 29, 2022) - Washington State University Director of Athletics Pat Chun has announced that the Cougars have agreed to a home-and-home football series with San Jose State University, beginning in 2024.
 
The first game is scheduled to be played in Pullman, Sept. 21, 2024, with the return contest in San Jose, Calif., Sept. 6, 2031.
 
Washington State leads the all-time series against the Spartans by an 8-4-1 margin, with the last meeting coming in 2018, a 31-0 Cougar victory in Pullman. The series began in 1955 with the only tie of the series, a 13-13 final in Pullman in a game known as the "Refrigerator Bowl" with a kickoff temperature of 5 degrees and a wind chill well below zero.
 
WSU has won the last two meetings in the series, 2018 and also in 1996, a 52-16 victory also in Pullman. The last meeting in San Jose ended in a 46-0 Cougar win in 1968.