Here's my top 10 of BGs I attended, going back to the late 70s:

1) 1982
2) 1986
3) 2009
4) 2024
5) 2019
6) 1979
7) 2008
8) 2002
9) 1993
10) 2005

01Bear said:

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bearister said:

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"I recognize those words but do not comprehend the meaning of the post."

I was a senior. I went to the game and then a Steve Stills concert at Maples after the game. At one point when the audience was making noise during the acoustic set, Stills promptly stopped playing and said, "Just because you lost a football game today, don't take it out on me. If you interrupt me again, I'm outa here."*


*I saw Stills and Neil Young many times in the early 1970's and to this day play their music frequently…..but they were both a$$h@les, at least back then. Always announcing their Rules from the stage and threatening to leave if you didn't comply.

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Thanks! I have no idea who Stills and Young are. I'm assuming Stills is the same dude from Crosby, Stills, and Nash. I'm not sure about Young, though.

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You've probably heard this song a million times from TV and the movies.



It's usually associated with the Vietnam War.

But it wasn't about the Vietnam War.

It was about young hippies/rich kids protesting over curfews in West Hollywood in 1966 (not too far from where I spent my childhood in the 80s and 90s).



Stephen Stills decided to write a song about it.

And it has become associated with the Vietnam War.

okaydo said:

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01Bear said:

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bearister said:

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"I recognize those words but do not comprehend the meaning of the post."

I was a senior. I went to the game and then a Steve Stills concert at Maples after the game. At one point when the audience was making noise during the acoustic set, Stills promptly stopped playing and said, "Just because you lost a football game today, don't take it out on me. If you interrupt me again, I'm outa here."*


*I saw Stills and Neil Young many times in the early 1970's and to this day play their music frequently…..but they were both a$$h@les, at least back then. Always announcing their Rules from the stage and threatening to leave if you didn't comply.

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Thanks! I have no idea who Stills and Young are. I'm assuming Stills is the same dude from Crosby, Stills, and Nash. I'm not sure about Young, though.

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You've probably heard this song a million times from TV and the movies.



It's usually associated with the Vietnam War.

But it wasn't about the Vietnam War.

It was about young hippies/rich kids protesting over curfews in West Hollywood in 1966 (not too far from where I spent my childhood in the 80s and 90s).



Stephen Stills decided to write a song about it.

And it has become associated with the Vietnam War.

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Cool! Thanks! I have heard the song before but never heard about its origins nor the riots. Thanks!

BerkeleyBear said:

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LarsBear74 said:

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I was lucky to see two of the best Big Games ever. Until I witnessed the 1982 game as an alum, I thought the 1972 game my Jr year was the best. Freshman Vince Ferragamo to Steve Sweeney in the back of the end zone to win. Memorable. But yesterday was a gutsy comeback.

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Yes, the 1972 game was exhilarating. It's the first time that I can recall winning on the final play.

Another satisfying win was just two years earlier in 1970 when Cal upset Rose Bowl bound Jim Plunkett, winning the Big Game in Berkeley for the first time in a decade.

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Sigh that Cal QB coached at my HS and I had no idea at the time...

rkt88edmo said:

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BerkeleyBear said:

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LarsBear74 said:

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I was lucky to see two of the best Big Games ever. Until I witnessed the 1982 game as an alum, I thought the 1972 game my Jr year was the best. Freshman Vince Ferragamo to Steve Sweeney in the back of the end zone to win. Memorable. But yesterday was a gutsy comeback.

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Yes, the 1972 game was exhilarating. It's the first time that I can recall winning on the final play.

Another satisfying win was just two years earlier in 1970 when Cal upset Rose Bowl bound Jim Plunkett, winning the Big Game in Berkeley for the first time in a decade.

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Sigh that Cal QB coached at my HS and I had no idea at the time...

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Dave Penhall, who started out as a third string QB at Cal, definitely out shined Heisman winner Plunkett in the 1970 Big Game.

It was a great end to the season, as, of course, in those days the Big Game was Cal's "Bowl game" since only conference winners went to Bowl games and as we all know Cal has not won the conference since Eisenhower was in office.

okaydo said:

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01Bear said:

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okaydo said:

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1. 1982
2. 1986
3. 2005
4. 1919
5. 2024

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I'm curious why 2005 is in there. For me, 2002 and 2019 are both more meaningful in that they ended Cal Big Game winless streaks. For those alumni who got to experience a Big Game victory as a student, they may not mean as much, but for those of us who never saw the Axe as students, they're much more meaningful.

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I love how Levy made the most of the quarterback situation that year. He salvaged the season for us, got Cal to 8-4.

BerkeleyBear said:

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rkt88edmo said:

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BerkeleyBear said:

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LarsBear74 said:

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I was lucky to see two of the best Big Games ever. Until I witnessed the 1982 game as an alum, I thought the 1972 game my Jr year was the best. Freshman Vince Ferragamo to Steve Sweeney in the back of the end zone to win. Memorable. But yesterday was a gutsy comeback.

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Yes, the 1972 game was exhilarating. It's the first time that I can recall winning on the final play.

Another satisfying win was just two years earlier in 1970 when Cal upset Rose Bowl bound Jim Plunkett, winning the Big Game in Berkeley for the first time in a decade.

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Sigh that Cal QB coached at my HS and I had no idea at the time...

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Dave Penhall, who started out as a third string QB at Cal, definitely out shined Heisman winner Plunkett in the 1970 Big Game.

It was a great end to the season, as, of course, in those days the Big Game was Cal's "Bowl game" since only conference winners went to Bowl games and as we all know Cal has not won the conference since Eisenhower was in office.

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2006 California Golden Bears football

Pac-10 co-champion

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_California_Golden_Bears_football_team

Cal88 said:

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BerkeleyBear said:

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rkt88edmo said:

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BerkeleyBear said:

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LarsBear74 said:

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I was lucky to see two of the best Big Games ever. Until I witnessed the 1982 game as an alum, I thought the 1972 game my Jr year was the best. Freshman Vince Ferragamo to Steve Sweeney in the back of the end zone to win. Memorable. But yesterday was a gutsy comeback.

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Yes, the 1972 game was exhilarating. It's the first time that I can recall winning on the final play.

Another satisfying win was just two years earlier in 1970 when Cal upset Rose Bowl bound Jim Plunkett, winning the Big Game in Berkeley for the first time in a decade.

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Sigh that Cal QB coached at my HS and I had no idea at the time...

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Dave Penhall, who started out as a third string QB at Cal, definitely out shined Heisman winner Plunkett in the 1970 Big Game.

It was a great end to the season, as, of course, in those days the Big Game was Cal's "Bowl game" since only conference winners went to Bowl games and as we all know Cal has not won the conference since Eisenhower was in office.

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2006 California Golden Bears football

Pac-10 co-champion

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_California_Golden_Bears_football_team

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For teams with the same conference record the first tie breaker to determine the conference "winner" (Rose Bowl berth in applicable years) was the winner of the head-to-head match up between the teams,

Cal may have had the same conference record as USC in 2006 and as UCLA in 1975, and was thus labeled as "co-champions" based solely on conference records, but since Cal lost the head-to-head match up tie breaker in both seasons, as Old Blues know, Cal was not the conference "winner" in either year.