Washington State welcomes in Portland State for the season opener on Saturday now the cougs won the last meeting back in 2021 but both of these teams are completely different now Jake dickard is entering his third season as head coach of the Cougars and he's had some pretty successful starts to each season dickard hasn't lost a season opener during his time in Pullman he's hoping to keep that streak Alive by shortening the practices this week so the Cougars can be sharp on game day if I got to get him motivated for game one I mean you know what are we doing here so I think it's our guys being focused being ready to play and youve worked so long since January 1st to get to this moment go out there and and you know obviously deliver your best and kickoff is at noon on Saturday in Pullman we will be there with coverage here on 4 news now now the