Washington 30, Washington State 0. There's no dignity in getting trounced 30-0 by your cross-state neighbor, or putting the finishing touches on another nightmare "rebuilding" season with no apparent positives of any kind. For Washington State, I suppose there's a quiet dignity in just continuing to show up every week when this is the reality of your season as it comes to a close:

• The Cougars finished 0-9 in Pac-10 play, by an average score of 40-9, and were doubled up in total yards per game in league games. Their best Pac-10 effort was a 27-14 loss to Arizona State in which more than half of their total offense for the game came on a 99-yard touchdown bomb in the fourth quarter.

• Wazzu finished among the bottom seven teams nationally in every major defensive and dead last in the Pac-10 in scoring offense, total offense, scoring defense, total defense, rushing offense, passing offense, pass efficiency offense, rushing defense, passing defense, pass efficiency defense, turnover margin, sacks, sacks allowed, third down offense, red zone offense, time of possession, iTune downloads of The Cure and self-inflicted wounds to numb the pain.

• WSU started three different quarterbacks, Jeff Tuel Marshall Lobbestael and Kevin Lopina, who combined for 15 touchdowns to 11 interceptions and the lowest team pass efficiency rating in the conference by a full 25 points while being sacked 53 times.

• The Cougars' only win was a 30-27 overtime clunker against SMU that they probably should have lost, if not for five Mustang turnovers negating their 228-yard advantage in total yards.

• Tonight's loss closes an eight-game losing streak in which the Cougars failed to score 20 points in any game and allowed at least 40 in all but one of them prior to tonight, they're sixth straight loss by at least 26 points.

The whole point of last season's epic collapse was that it "can't get any worse" than the worst season in school history ... until you set new standards for futility two years in a row. Somehow, it did get worse, while simultaneously getting much, much better on the other side of the state for hated Washington, even more so than the improvement from zero wins to four suggests. The Huskies, losers in the 2008 "Crapple Cup" to determine the worst "Big Six" team in the country, rebounded this time by outgaining the Cougars by just shy of 300 yards.

That title resides for the foreseeable future solely with Washington State, possibly the worst at the moment than any team since the concept of a "BCS conference" was enshrined into the prevailing order more than a decade ago. The Cougars are the new Duke, without the benefit of having alway been Duke -- this is a team that played in the Rose Bowl in 1997 and 2002 and won 10 games again the following fall. The Cougars aren't hopeless, automatic losers with some excuse for languishing in the cellar between weekly assaults bordering on sadistic at this point. And as far as Wazzu fans are concerned (however many of them are left), the longer the Wulff era drags on from here, the closer it feels to falling into that category itself.