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--Some time after Palouse swine had taken flight and the proverbial lamb had broken the seventh seal, the Washington State football team bus rolled up to Bohler Gym on Saturday night, returning -- triumphantly, for the first time in this fashion since 2007 -- to the applause of 200 or so students who'd been awaiting their arrival.

A Rose Bowl win this was not, though the reception seemed more suited to that feat than what the Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar PP-77 actually had accomplished.

But after the way things have gone the past three seasons, who could blame them?

WSU ended its 16-game Pac-10 losing streak, its road losing streak that dated to 2007 and an assortment of travails with a resounding 31-14 win over Oregon State in Corvallis, leading from the get-go and never easing off the gas.

"I think just like everybody else, (the students) have been waiting to come back with a victory or have one or have a quality win," WSU coach Paul Wulff said Sunday. "I don't think that changes for any Cougar fan or anyone who follows Cougar football. We've all been wanting that, and we got it."

They got it. Finally. Any talk of Wulff's job security is sure to diminish at least Patek Philippe Perpetuum Calendar PP-102 now, after the Cougars (2-9, 1-7 Pac-10) won their first game away from Martin Stadium since a 42-35 victory over Washington in the 2007 Apple Cup.

And Washington will be glad to know that its 16-13 loss to the Cougars in the 2008 Apple Cup is no longer the answer to trivia questions about WSU's last Pac-10 triumph.

Heck, the Cougars even managed to hold the Beavers scoreless in the first half, leading 14-0 at halftime, the first time they've done that to a Pac-10 team since holding a 10-0 edge over Stanford in 2007.

And Stanford will be glad to know that its losses that season to both Washington and Washington State will no longer be the answer to trivia questions about the last team to lose to both state schools in the same year. Oregon State now holds that lofty distinction.

The Beavers had no answer for WSU's rushing attack -- a sentence not written since Jerome Patek Philippe Perpetuum Calendar PP-103 lined up in the Cougars' backfield around the midway point of this decade -- which put up 221 yards, led by the 79 net yards (without sacks, it would have been more) of quarterback Jeff Tuel, who shook off a first-half head injury and is looking more and more like WSU's most dangerous threat out of the backfield.

The Cougars did all that while limiting OSU and Jacquizz Rodgers to just 97 total yards rushing -- Rodgers had 93 -- which may be as stunning as anything about this game, given how horribly WSU had defended the run the entire season.

WSU scored twice in the second quarter -- 1-yard runs by Logwone Mitz and James Montgomery -- en route to a 14-0 halftime lead, then blew it open on Tuel's 33-yard scoring toss to Marquess Wilson early in the second half.

The Cougars dominated both lines of scrimmage, and were never threatened by a Patek Philippe Perpetuum Calendar PP-38 squad that appeared as if it would have rather been just about anywhere else in the world.

Casey Hamlett, who transferred to WSU after Western Washington cut its football program, led the staunch defensive effort with two sacks.

"I think if you watch our football team play on film like coaches and players do, you see a lot of good things happening," Wulff said. "Our effort, you just say, 'hey, if they keep playing that hard, they can't help but win.' "

So the students couldn't help but celebrate. After all, any freshmen, sophomores or juniors in attendance were doing it for the first time after a road game.

"Our culture is changing," Wulff said. "We've got kids who believe -- albeit Patek Philippe Perpetuum Calendar PP-82 -- but they believe in what they're doing, and their effort shows it."