The WSU Cougars have officially put together a football schedule for the 2025 season.

How the No. 22 Cougars excel under Dickert

Washington State announced Friday that it has added a road game against James Madison on Nov. 22, 2025, completing a 12-game slate with opponents from 10 different conferences.

After the Pac-12's demise, the league's two remaining schools – Washington State and Oregon State – had a scheduling agreement with the Mountain West for this season. This allowed the Cougars to play eight of their twelve games against Mountain West opponents.

However, the Pac-12 and Mountain West have not renewed their contract for 2025. That forced Washington State to get extra creative to fill out next year's schedule, including the highly unusual move of playing Oregon State twice in the same season.

The Cougars' top home games next season include the Apple Cup against arch-rival Washington and their regular season finale against Oregon State. Their top away games include trips to Ole Miss, Virginia and Oregon State. WSU has never played Ole Miss or Virginia before.

the 2025 Cougar Football schedule🙌

📲 https://t.co/BoqCLbEHg5 pic.twitter.com/ckeGH1owlk

—Washington State Football (@WSUCougarFB) November 1, 2024

Washington State will play at least one team from each FBS conference except the Big 12.

The Cougs face teams from the SEC (Ole Miss), the Big Ten (Washington), the ACC (Virginia), the American Athletic Conference (North Texas), the Pac-12 (Oregon State twice), the Mountain West (San Diego State). and Colorado State), the Mid-American Conference (Toledo), the Sun Belt (James Madison) and Conference USA (Louisiana Tech). They will also face FCS-level Idaho in the Big Sky Conference.

Washington state is on track to return to a more normal schedule in 2026. Then the new-look Pac-12 should begin. The conference currently has seven football members that will play in the new-look league starting in 2026: Washington State, Oregon State, Boise State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Colorado State and Utah State. The conference still needs to add another member to be recognized as an FBS league.

This season, the Cougars are 7-1 and ranked No. 22 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll. Washington State has a bye this week before hosting Utah State on November 9th.

More on WSU Cougars football

• The No. 22 WSU Cougars' season debut in the poll is a source of pride for the Pac-12
• The WSU Cougars defeat San Diego State 29-26 to improve to 7-1
• The WSU Cougars step up their rivalry against Pac-2 cohort Oregon State

Follow @CameronVanTil