Washington State- Stanford game is canceled

Washington State’s game at Stanford was canceled because the school has nine football players in COVID- 19 protocols and four players had to be put into the protocol Friday morning, athletic director Pat Chun said.

Chun said as of last weekend, the Cougars had zero players in their COVID protocols and the f irst positive test came early in the week. The four positives Friday morning kept the Cougars from reaching the Pac- 12 mandate of 53 scholarship players available.

Chun said it was too early to know whether next Friday’s Apple Cup against rival Washington will be played as scheduled. He said f iguring out that situation would begin Sunday.

“We’re going to get through tomorrow as planned and come Sunday we’ll start making our daily assessments about where our roster is at and where we’re at with everything related to trying to field a team on Friday,” Chun said.

In other news related to the coronavirus, Tennessee athletic director and former Volunteers football coach Phillip Fulmer said he is in isolation after testing positive for COVID- 19. And Miami’s Manny Diaz became the latest active coach to announce he has contracted the virus.

Fulmer, 70, posted on Twitter that he is “feeling fine” and was deemed not to have been in close contact with any Tennessee athletes or “sport- specific staff members.”

Diaz, 46, said he will work virtually with the No. 12 Hurricanes until he can return to the field.

Miami is not scheduled to play again until Dec. 5 at Wake Forest.

Friday’s game

Josh Aune’s interception with 44 seconds left at the Minnesota 13- yard line after a disputed penalty on Purdue gave the host Gophers ( 2- 3) a big lift and preserved a 34- 31 victory over the Boilermakers ( 2- 2.) ... Malik Cunningham accounted for two touchdowns to offset three first- half turnovers, and Louisville ( 3- 6) held visiting Syracuse ( 1- 8) to a season- low 137 yards with three takeaways for a 30- 0 victory.