SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Winless Washington State won't be looking past lower-level Portland State when the teams play Saturday in Pullman, WSU coach Paul Wulff promised Tuesday.

Washington State (0-3) is one of the worst teams in the BCS, having been blown out in three games by a combined score of 150-33. Portland State (1-1) of the Big Sky Conference has a high-powered offense under former NFL coach Jerry Glanville.

"It's no foregone conclusion we are going to win this game," Wulff said. "We are not taking care of our own business."

"We cannot get caught up in who we're playing."

Wulff, in his first season after moving up from Eastern Washington, should know the danger of playing a Championship Subdivision team. His Eastern teams upset Connecticut in 2001, Idaho in 2003 and lost just 21-19 in 2000 to an Oregon State team that finished 11-1.

Still, Portland State is perhaps WSU's best bet for a win before it plays eight Pacific-10 games, then finishes the season at Hawaii. The Cougars are 40-2 against Big Sky teams, although this is the first time they have played the Vikings.

Wulff is making some big changes in his lineup this week.

Xavier Hicks, suspended for the first three games for off-field troubles, will start at safety. Alfonso Jackson, who was moved to cornerback in the spring, will move back to safety. Myron Beck is moving from safety to linebacker.

Offensive tackle Vaughn Lesuma is moving to guard, while Steven Ayers and Joey Eppele will battle for his tackle job. Lesuma is more naturally a guard than a tackle, and the Cougars have had problems protecting the quarterback, Wulff said.

Kevin Lopina, who showed some good things in his first extensive college experience last Friday at Baylor, will start at quarterback again. But he has been slowed by a wrist injury this week.

The moves are designed to kickstart a team that is giving up 475 yards per game, including 330 on the ground. The offense, meanwhile, is getting only 234 yards per game and 11 points per game.

"We have to get a lot better," Wulff said.

Washington State's problems are deep-seated, and many can be traced to the recruiting woes of the previous coaching regime of Bill Doba. The lack of recruits coming in was a main reason that Doba was forced out after last season's 5-7 campaign and replaced by Wulff.

But Wulff has found the cupboard nearly bare, emptied by graduation, injuries, discipline problems and the loss of scholarships because of NCAA violations.

"We've got a lot of players who haven't played a lot of football," he said.

The Cougars are also turning the ball over way too much, including five times against Baylor. That included one play where Lopina was struck in the facemask by the ball when center Kenny Alfred snapped it out of the shotgun when the quarterback wasn't looking. Baylor recovered the fumble and scored en route to a 45-17 win.

After 180 minutes of football so far this season, the Cougars have led for a total of 3 minutes and 35 seconds, which is how long they were ahead of Baylor in the first quarter.

The game at Baylor was pushed from Saturday to Friday to avoid Hurricane Ike, and the Cougars flew there, played and returned in one day.