With the score 35-32 at the end of Q3, Memorial was rocking. It was the most fun since last year's Big Game. It got to that point because the Bears offense was completely mistake-free to that point, and took full advantage of 3 egregious OSU mistakes: onside kick, fumble, roughing-the-kicker turned into 21 points.

But the O turned the ball over twice in Q4, and it was game over. Because the D and special teams stunk up the joint.

OSU was 5-for-5 on 4th down. That they went for it 5 times is ridiculous. That they succeeded was just...obscene.

I refuse to stand up and yell for the Defense on critical downs any more. It's not working.

You know that old coach's saying that when you pass, 3 things can happen and 2 of them are bad? Not tonight. Every time DJ Uigaleili dropped back it was good for the Beavers. No sacks, no hurries, no knock-downs. No holding calls (for either team), no interceptions, no drops. Just first downs and TDs (5).

You have to wonder why they didn't pass on every down.

I said the same. Beautiful night in Berkeley and Memorial with the week of Indian summer. Trading blows and keeping it close.

But it seemed obvious to me that we were going to lose. I don't think we made them punt once at that point. I think they had kicked one FG.

It was clear that despite what the distance was on 3rd down, Uigelelei was going to find his receiver. A combination of no pressure and talent to put the ball anywhere. We had zero ability to stop him.

Plus we have something like 10-14 points off of OSU mistakes in the 2nd quarter. You knew that they weren't going to make many more dumb mistakes. As long as they played a clean game, we could trade TD's and they would win.

But they only had to go 50 yards down field because our placekicking was bad while we always had to go 75 yards. The odds were simply against us and the longer the game went, the more that spread would widen.

I kept asking why OSU was calling all these trick plays when every normal play went for good or big yards?

Onside kick, double pass, double reverse…

freshfunk said:

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But it seemed obvious to me that we were going to lose. I don't think we made them punt once at that point. I think they had kicked one FG.

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OSU scored on every drive (besides end of half kneel-downs) after Cal recovered that fumble in the 2nd quarter. All were touchdowns except the last one that was a field goal, and that probably would also have been a TD if they were more concerned with scoring at that point.

sycasey said:

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freshfunk said:

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But it seemed obvious to me that we were going to lose. I don't think we made them punt once at that point. I think they had kicked one FG.

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OSU scored on every drive (besides end of half kneel-downs) after Cal recovered that fumble in the 2nd quarter. All were touchdowns except the last one that was a field goal, and that probably would also have been a TD if they were more concerned with scoring at that point.

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We're all pissed off at the special teams coverage but seems like a moot point with our secondary unable to cover a ham sandwich all 2nd half.

JSC 76 said:

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With the score 35-32 at the end of Q3, Memorial was rocking. It was the most fun since last year's Big Game. It got to that point because the Bears offense was completely mistake-free to that point, and took full advantage of 3 egregious OSU mistakes: onside kick, fumble, roughing-the-kicker turned into 21 points.

But the O turned the ball over twice in Q4, and it was game over. Because the D and special teams stunk up the joint.

OSU was 5-for-5 on 4th down. That they went for it 5 times is ridiculous. That they succeeded was just...obscene.

I refuse to stand up and yell for the Defense on critical downs any more. It's not working.

You know that old coach's saying that when you pass, 3 things can happen and 2 of them are bad? Not tonight. Every time DJ Uigaleili dropped back it was good for the Beavers. No sacks, no hurries, no knock-downs. No holding calls (for either team), no interceptions, no drops. Just first downs and TDs (5).

You have to wonder why they didn't pass on every down.

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I WAS wondering why they didn't pass on every down. The OSU QB didn't miss any passes medium range and high percentage and made most of the others with the exception of a couple

Strykur said:

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sycasey said:

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freshfunk said:

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But it seemed obvious to me that we were going to lose. I don't think we made them punt once at that point. I think they had kicked one FG.

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OSU scored on every drive (besides end of half kneel-downs) after Cal recovered that fumble in the 2nd quarter. All were touchdowns except the last one that was a field goal, and that probably would also have been a TD if they were more concerned with scoring at that point.

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We're all pissed off at the special teams coverage but seems like a moot point with our secondary unable to cover a ham sandwich all 2nd half.

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And our line unable to get any pressure whatsoever. We got badly out-talented.