It was a blistering day down on the P today, Michelle Boss will tell you about that in just a bit, but we had kickoff of Cougar football in the 2024 campaign. The Cougs hosting Portland State in the lid lifter and this game got off to an inauspicious start for WSU after a three and out on offense, the Cougar defense gets gashed for 53 yards by Delong Thompson on the third play from scrimmage. That long run would set up a Dante Satay rushing touchdown and the Vikings lead this game seven nothing. But after that, the Cougs would wake up John Mattie to a diving Chris Hudson. What a catch for the touchdown and we are tied at seven on the next Cougar possession. It's Mattie to Trey Shackleford and he's gonna break a tackle and navigate his way to pay dirt to make it 14 seven coos and the route was on the co scored touchdowns on nine consecutive possessions except for aneil down at the half. Matier threw for 352 yards and five touchdowns. He also rushed for a TD as well ways. Sean Parker and Kyle Williams both had a pair of touchdowns. The Cougs put up 70 on Portland State today. They win it 70 to 30. Thanks to an explosive offensive performance, you get the first three and now it's not what the way you want to open the season. But I, I'm glad we had to respond to adversity. And I thought the offensive guys did a tremendous job. I mean, everyone ate today. I mean, you saw skill sets across the board that we've been talking about and it's been great to finally see it really applied to the field. So I thought a run after the catch today was phenomenal and we're gonna need that as we continue to go throughout this season. I think for me, I was like, I was like, man, I was like overthinking it. I told myself I was like, what am I doing? Like if it's football, play football? So I just calm down and play ball and it was good throughout the week. Uh We were watching film and we always make jokes about each other like you ain't got wiggle, you can't score this, that and the third. So we, our coach always said he wants to be entertained on the sideline and we came before the game, we said coach, we're gonna put a hell of a show for you. And I think we did just that there definitely can't be the peak, you know, we gotta come to work on Monday ready to get better and, and I think we got the attitude of this football team to come and do it. Cos are now wanna know they'll face Texas tech at Giza field next Saturday kickoff for that game is set for 7 p.m.