PULLMAN, Wash. (August 31, 2025) - Washington State opened the 2025 season with a 13-10 victory over Idaho at Gesa Field Saturday night. Checkout the postgame notes from the win.

TEAM NOTES
•      WSU captains; Tucker Large, Josh Meredeith, Max Baloun, Brock Dieu
•      WSU won the toss, deferred, Idaho elected to receive
•      WSU won its fourth straight season-opener, won its 11^th straight game in the series against Idaho
•      WSU recorded a pair of takeaways, both fumbles
•      Jack Stevens go-ahead 32-yard field goal with three seconds remaining was WSU's first last-minute victory since 2019 (54-53, Max Borghi TD run with two seconds remaining, Oregon State)
 
PLAYER NOTES
•      31 players made their WSU debuts; LB Anthony Palano, RB Angel Johnson, S Tucker Large, QB Julian Dugger, CB Colby Humphrey, S Duhron Goodman, LB Caleb Francl, RB Kirby Vorhees, DE Buddha Peleti, LB Carsten Reynolds, CB AJ Davis, WR Jeremiah Noga, WR Carter Pabst, CB Trillion Sorrell, S Matthew Durrance, LB Sullivan Schlimgen, S Kyle Peterson, S Trey Ridley, K Jack Stevens, LB Jack Ellison, LS Colton Peoples, DT Kaden Beatty, DT Soni Finau, RG AJ Vaipulu, TE Beau Baker, TE Ademola Faleye, WR Mackenzie Alleyne, TE Luke Leighton, DT Darrion Dalton, DT Max Baloun, DE Malaki Ta'ase
•      Seven players made their collegiate debuts; CB Trillion Sorrell, WR Carter Pabst, S Kyle Peterson, LB Jack Ellison, LB Sullivan Schlimgen, TE Beau Baker, TE Luke Leighton
•      LT Ashton Tripp and LG Jonny Lester each made their first career starts
•      Jaxon Potter made his first career start, went 23-of-30 for 208 yards and one touchdown pass
•      Joshua Meredith had two catches for 31 yards, caught Potter's first career touchdown pass (6 yards, 2^nd quarter)
•      Jeremiah Noga started in his WSU debut, had five catches for 54 yards
•      Tony Freeman started, set career highs with seven catches for 64 yards
•      Leon Neal Jr. recorded his first career catch
•      Kirby Vorhees set career highs with five catches for 18 yards
•      Caleb Francl made a career-high 11 tackles in his Cougar debut, previous career high was eight (2x at South Dakota State)
•      Matthew Durrance made a career-high nine tackles, had one for loss and forced his first career fumble
•      Anthony Palano made a career-high nine tackles
•      Bryson Lamb made four tackles including first career tackle-for-loss
•      Malaki Ta'ase forced his first career fumble
•      Raam Stevenson recovered his first career fumble, made career-high 1.5 tackles-for-loss
•      Isaac Terrell matched a career-high with one tackle-for-loss
•      Kyle Peterson made his collegiate debut, recovered his 1^st career fumble
•      Jack Stevens made his first career field goal (30 yards, 3^rd quarter) and his second career field goal was the go-ahead 32-yarder with three seconds remaining