I wonder who Oregon gets to destroy this weekend... oh look it seems they get to travel down to Berkely and visit Carlbear.
It should be a fun game. Oregon has really been rolling so seems they are about due for a let down. At least that is how it worked under Cristobal, maybe that doesn't hold true under the new regime.
Every team seems to have its kryptonite, and for some strange reason its been Cal for Oregon the last few years, though I doubt it will be the case this weekend...Even if its not a win Cal makes it a lot harder for Oregon than it should be. And because we're 3-4 Cal instead of say a 3-4 Texas A&M, a close game will do you no favors.
Sadly, until we finally lost last week Cal was actually mathematically in the Rose Bowl hunt, as winning out would have put us in the Pac-12 Championship game against Utah, but as usual, those dreams are dashed by week 7 :).
Maybe I should edit those Sandstorm "lyrics," they might be keeping Fed away. Either that or he is busy, going door to door to solicit money for the largest buyout ever.
I haven't given up on Jimbo yet. Haven't given up on the team yet. But it ain't a fun season. At times like this, I try to turn the knob relating to my Aggie football emotions down, and find another knob to turn up. I'm told this has no adverse effect on our players! 
Saw someone refer to Penn State as "ranch-flavored Auburn" and have been laughing ever since.
What the hell Syracuse? 7 point game to start the 4th and now ND scored 14 and it looks over
What the hell Syracuse? 7 point game to start the 4th and now ND scored 14 and it looks over
Syracuse is Good?, Syracuse is not Good.
Did Wake Forest just absolutely self-destruct on the field? Whatever the Louisville defense is doing, they've got Hartman's number. Wow.
6 turnovers in the 3rd quarter. Cards started and ended the quarter with pick 6s. 35-0.
Best damn quarter I've ever seen.
Hartman benched to start the 4th. Heisman dreams crushed. Aww too bad.
I was out mountain biking with the boy for most of the game, bud damn is it fun that Kirby has turned the WLOCP into just another SEC East game.
Give up three turnovers, still score over 40 and win by 22.
FTMF.
Will need to play a cleaner game against the Vols next week, though.
Vols played some D. And not just against the run. How much of that is UK not being that great?
Tennessee didn't play clean on offense and left a bunch of points out there, but still put up 44.
Fun night last night in Neyland. Did not expect this this year. Really thought 8 or 9 wins would be a nice season going in. Now I can't see even a possibility of worse than 10-1.
How is Will Levis considered a first round QB? Just don't see it. Have never seen it.
When you win big and your rival loses big it's a pretty great day of football.
How is Will Levis considered a first round QB? Just don't see it. Have never seen it.
No clue. Honestly I saw some comments about that on Twitter yesterday and couldn't figure out where it came from. Who is grading him like that?
When you win big and your rival loses big it's a pretty great day of football.
MannishBoy wrote:How is Will Levis considered a first round QB? Just don't see it. Have never seen it.
No clue. Honestly I saw some comments about that on Twitter yesterday and couldn't figure out where it came from. Who is grading him like that?
Look at all the draft predictions from earlier this year. Many have him up there with Bryce Young and Stroud.
How is Will Levis considered a first round QB? Just don't see it. Have never seen it.
Never pay attention to supposed QB draft grades until after the player's final season ends.
If the QB plays in the SEC, then that goes double.
I've lived through many bad Cal seasons, including 2 one-win seasons, and even though we're at 3 wins now, this one ranks right with those stinkers.
I have never seen that many open receivers running through the field ever.. this includes the disastrous Andy Buh days during Dykes' tenure. In a play that totally incapsulates our day.. on one play, two WRs for Oregon slip and fall... which were probably the first 2 reads.. play has to be dead right? We even are getting some light pressure on the QB (strong pressure by Cal standards, light pressure by any other team), what happens.. the safety valve RB or whoever is WIDE open and goes for 10-15 yards. Basically on 75% of our defensive snaps I feel there was a missed assignment or blown coverage. Even if Oregon athletes were 0.5 seconds faster on a 40 than our defense across the board, there was no way people should be that open. If we're only rushing 3 or 4 every down, doesn't that mean there are 7 or 8 defenders for the 5 eligible receivers? I've never seen anything that bad before, and when you're at the game its that much worse as you can see the play develop and just see Oregon receivers just running freely everywhere.
Our OL line upgraded from D- to I'd say C- for most of the day, at least for pass protection this week, and outside of a few impressive throws, our QB couldn't hit the side of a barn from the inside. Missed open receivers, all over the place. We could have at least made it interesting.
Yeah.. we were up 3-0 and 10-7 during this game, but Oregon totally took control with about 5 mins left in the first half and that was then end of it.
Looks like true freshman Connor Weigman is the QB from now on.
After the season, we gotta fire:
The DC
The OL coach
Whoever is in charge of conditioning, because we had a million injuries last night - unless they were faked to slow Ole Miss down. If that's the case, it wasn't enough.
Their QB ran wild all night. I guess our DBs were doing well because he frequently had no one to throw to, but then just tucked it and ran for 10+ over and over.
And over.
And over.
And we never adjusted at all.
My team is the focus again.
Ehh. They've done better work.
They missed probably at least as bad of a shun. Johnny Majors lost the Heisman to Paul Hornung, who played on a 2-8 Notre Dame team. Majors led the Vols from a 5-6 season to an 11-1 season that year. That's the only instance to this date of a Heisman going to a player on a losing record team.
Heath Shuler came in second to Charlie Ward, but he had the whole PR from the basketball thing as well, so that's hard to top even though it should have been irrelevant. And that was top 10 in vote margins, so not even close.
Josh Heupel lost in a fairly close race while he was at Oklahoma to Chris Weinke (UT's former distinguished QB coach under Pruitt who coached the illustrious Jarrett Guarantano).
Thanks for listening to my history class. I don't expect Hooker to win the Heisman because UT always gets screwed on that reward. And we're not in the least tiny bit as salty as a bag of jerky about it.
Look away, Legion.
Tedford and Fresno are 2-0 against FBS teams since this hateful slander was posted.
At this point this is a tired meme but 100% accurate.
I knew Cal was in trouble when in the 1st quarter it was like 4th and 3 or 4 yards inside the Oregon 10 and they decided to kick a field goal. If you are a double digit underdog against a team that puts up a lot of points you can't settle for field goals in situations like that.
Our best defensive play was when you're WR was so wide open in the 1st Quarter but just flat out dropped it.
Unfortunately for us, we used that same defense the rest of the game, but your WRs remembered how to catch it.
Yeah there were a few dropped passes, none as bad as that one though. Cal did a good job of slowing down the Oregon rushing attack though. Chase Cota went down and there is no word on how bad the injury is yet. That will hurt the offense a bit going forward especially since Seven McGee looks to maybe be leaving the team too. The WR room is getting a little thin.
Bill Walton writes an open letter on his opposition to UCLA joining the B1G.
“UCLA’S WRONG TURN”
All progress requires change… not all change is progress,I’m Bill Walton,
I’m a California native, resident, engaged citizen, voter, and taxpayer,
I’m a product of California’s terrific public school systems,
I’m a proud UCLA alum,
I am not in favor of UCLA’s recent announced decision to leave the Pac-12 Conference of Champions,
nor their desire to join the Big 10,
I don’t like this attempted move,
I don’t support it,
I hope it does not happen,
UCLA is a public school that is supposed to serve the interests of the State of California,
UCLA is one of the world’s greatest schools, and brands,
UCLA represents the best of what life has been, and can, could and should be,
UCLA has been as great and as important a part of my life as anything, ever,
I don’t believe that joining the Big 10 is in the best interest of UCLA, its students, its athletes, its alumni, its fans, the rest of the UC system, the State of California, or the world at large,
some of the many reasons why I am opposed to UCLA’s attempted move to the Big 10 are, in no particular order,
• the negative impact on the health, both physical and mental, of UCLA’s student-athletes,
the exponential increase in travel on UCLA’s student-athletes will hurt them physically, mentally, and in their overall lives,
• the negative impact of the excessive travel will extend to families, friends, fans, alumni and everyone else,
• the increased costs of joining the Big 10 will negate the projected increased revenue assumptions of this proposed move,
• this proposed move to the Big 10 is contrary to UCLA’s and the entire UC System’s stated and professed environmental sustainability goals,
• this proposed move to the Big 10 has serious negative implications and ramifications for the University of California, Berkeley,
and flies in the face of the supposed team concept that has always been a part of the California Dream, plan and business model,
• this proposed move to the Big 10, is all about football, and money,
• what about all the other 24 sports and 600+student-athletes at UCLA, who are responsible for 99+% of UCLA’s National Championships,
• how many of these “others” are represented and willing participants in this proposed deal,
I went to UCLA — gladly, willingly, and proudly,
it was my dream,
that dream never included the Big 10,
I have spoken to no one, other than the highest-level directors of athletics at UCLA, who think that this proposed move to the Big 10 is a good idea,
every argument made by these senior AD’s and why they like it, is about money,
these same proponents of moving to the Big 10, are the first people I have ever encountered in my life,
who have claimed economic hardship and limitations in Los Angeles,
and that the solution lies in the Midwest,
I have made my feelings known, privately, to the powers that be in the State of California, including the UC’s Board of Regents,
my hope and dream is that this proposed move by UCLA, my alma mater, will be rescinded,
Bill Walton,
UCLA 1974
Two awesome quotes in that.. first one is of course his concern for THE University of California, Berkeley, second one is the subtle coastal elite dig 
No real update from the mighty UC Regents, though the smart money (pun intended) is that if this follow through and Cal isn't dragged into the B1G with UCLA, that UCLA will basically have to pay Cal for economic damages. Can't wait till we use that money to hire Chip Kelley
Kirby is beyond happy at the first playoff rankings!
I'm with Bill.
I thoroughly enjoyed the point about UCLA football miniscule contribution to national championships. Just a fake claimed one from 1954. And joining the B1G isn't going to make that happen either.
1. Tennessee loses to Georgia this weekend. They drop to 2 (quality loss), Georgia to 1.
2. Tennessee Wins the rest of their games. Idle's during SEC championship game (not playing a game in the SEC > winning non-SEC conference championship)
3. Alabama wins out, beating LSU and Ole Miss, then beats Georgia in the SEC championship game.
That puts us with 3 1-loss SEC teams ranked 1-3 but would leave every other team in the SEC West with 2 losses?... so still no realistic path to 4 SEC teams... unless Michigan or tOSU lose a game before their matchup.
I guess playoff expansion talk is still on the table!
Y'know, I hadn't heard just HOW MUCH A&M owes Jimbo if they fire him now (or next year, or the year after that), and good Lord. G'luck with that, this marriage gon' stick.
Y'know, I hadn't heard just HOW MUCH A&M owes Jimbo if they fire him now (or next year, or the year after that), and good Lord. G'luck with that, this marriage gon' stick.
These 10 year guaranteed deals are stupid.
1. Tennessee loses to Georgia this weekend. They drop to 2 (quality loss), Georgia to 1.
2. Tennessee Wins the rest of their games. Idle's during SEC championship game (not playing a game in the SEC > winning non-SEC conference championship)
3. Alabama wins out, beating LSU and Ole Miss, then beats Georgia in the SEC championship game.That puts us with 3 1-loss SEC teams ranked 1-3 but would leave every other team in the SEC West with 2 losses?... so still no realistic path to 4 SEC teams... unless Michigan or tOSU lose a game before their matchup.
I guess playoff expansion talk is still on the table!
Sounds good to me. Except UT coming out on top
Seriously, no way they'll let three SEC teams in, even if deserving. Clemson would be 4 in that scenario. Even though all three teams you mentioned would be favored to beat them.
But I'm just happy to be here. Win or lose this weekend. I had the Vols a likely 8 win team this year with losses to Alabama, Georgia, and probably 2 of the 4 between Pitt, Florida, LSU, and Kentucky. Vols right now playing with house money.
I'll be upset if we lose, but still happy where we are and all the fun this season has been for me.
SEC Short Mid-Week:
*Tennessee also plays those same two toughest teams in the country every year. Hadn't really thought about Auburn being in the same crappy boat.
I really don't get the point of the caterwauling over the rankings.
Like, is TCU too low? Sure. But Georgia plays Tennessee and OSU plays Michigan. TCU wins out, they probably make the CFP.
Also, LOL at Syracuse actually being in the CFP. Dino deserves an extension for that alone.
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