You speak for every true blue

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Haloski said:

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At game time, Syracuse was favored by 3.5 points and ESPN had them at 79.5% chance to win.

We outperformed.

Let's hope our coaches and our players evolve and improve with each week.

It's all we got at this point.

Down with the Negabears. There is no other path forward at this time. Root for the people we have in place with all your Bear hearts.

Go Bears!

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Syracuse was predicted to finish below Cal in the preseason ACC ranking (https://theacc.com/news/2026/7/28/miami-picked-as-preseason-favorite-to-win-2026-acc-football-championship.aspx). This is a game Cal should've won. While I'm glad Cal did manage to pull out the win, my excitement is tempered with the reminder that Syracuse isn't a good team and this is a game that Cal was supposed to win.

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Cal has lost a lot of games on the road to bad/the worst teams in our conference even in our best years under Tedford (2006) but it was almost an annual occurrence under Wilcox. Good to win one we often lose and good to see the players keep fighting until the end and make the pkays to pull it out.

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If Tosh follows Wilcox's path, then based on the "lose to the worst team" rule, Cal will lose the Big Game. Needless to say, I hope that doesn't happen.

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Wow you are being negative. Big Game is Big Game, it is different. it is our biggest rivalry and has its own rules. Besides, Big Game is at Cal this year, but even Big Games on the Farm are hardly road games since there are usually more Cal fans than Stanford fans and we are alot louder. There is no chance we overlook Stanford. We are being lead by Cal guys. They will want the Axe back. Now, strange things happen in Big Games, but that falls under "rivalry games" not "annual lackluster uninspired loss on the road to a bad/the worst team in the conference."

So Wilcox losing at VT last year counts in this category, but his loss to Stanford doesn't, nor does his getting shut out at SDSU.

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Blame my pessimism on my undergraduate experiences: Cal lost ever Big Game when I was an undergrad (thanks, Tom Holmoe!). I literally have no frame of reference of Cal winning a Big Game and parading the axe through any part of campus from a student's perspective.

It makes me jealous of Big Game victories that much more. But I also realize that just because Cal wants and should win a Big Game doesn't mean it will. The football gods are fickle and are just as likely to reward a crappy Furd team with a W as they are to award a better Cal team. That said, I expect the Cal squad to go out and play inspired ball to beat the Furd each and every time. Unfortunately, I've had my expectations dashed too many times.

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Of course we always want to win Big Game, and yes, there have been many disappointments, but Big Game is completely different than Cal's, and Wilcox' in particular, habit of losing to a conference bottom dweller on the road in uninspired fashion.

Last year, Wilcox did both. Tosh avoided that fate so far by beating Syracuse, even if in ugly fashion and with them "couging it." To finish in the top half of the conference you have to consistently beat the teams in the bottom half, even on the road. So far, so good.

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The football gods are fickle and are just as likely to reward a crappy Furd team with a W as they are to award a better Cal team. That said, I expect the Cal squad to go out and play inspired ball to beat the Furd each and every time. Unfortunately, I've had my expectations dashed too many times.

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I hear where you're coming from, fine, but just for the record..
No sir, there are no gods, and responsibility to do good falls to us mortals, win lose or tie.

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Strykur said:

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Haloski said:

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At game time, Syracuse was favored by 3.5 points and ESPN had them at 79.5% chance to win.

We outperformed.

Let's hope our coaches and our players evolve and improve with each week.

It's all we got at this point.

Down with the Negabears. There is no other path forward at this time. Root for the people we have in place with all your Bear hearts.

Go Bears!

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Syracuse was predicted to finish below Cal in the preseason ACC ranking (https://theacc.com/news/2026/7/28/miami-picked-as-preseason-favorite-to-win-2026-acc-football-championship.aspx). This is a game Cal should've won. While I'm glad Cal did manage to pull out the win, my excitement is tempered with the reminder that Syracuse isn't a good team and this is a game that Cal was supposed to win.

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Cal has lost a lot of games on the road to bad/the worst teams in our conference even in our best years under Tedford (2006) but it was almost an annual occurrence under Wilcox. Good to win one we often lose and good to see the players keep fighting until the end and make the pkays to pull it out.

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If Tosh follows Wilcox's path, then based on the "lose to the worst team" rule, Cal will lose the Big Game. Needless to say, I hope that doesn't happen.

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Big Game is Big Game, it is different. it is our biggest rivalry and has always had its own rules. We never lose to Stanford because we overlook them. Even "road" games on the Farm typically have alot more Cal fans than Stanford fans.

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As an alum Tosh will never **** around when it comes to the Axe

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Who would've expected him, a Cal alumnus, to tell recruits to go elsewhere while on a recruiting trip on Cal's dime?

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Even if you assume Tosh is completely self-interest motivated, which is always a safe assumption, he will want to win Big Game, because as an alum from the Bay Area he knows how important it is to the people that give him money and can make him successful.

I get that you are pissed about Tosh from the past, I was too. I get that you wanted someone else, I did too. However, what I really want is Cal to be successful. We are not replacing him or his staff two games in. Even if you have strong doubts they can be successful, you have to at least admit there is a CHANCE they can be successful. There are some good signs if you look for them. I am 100% behind them at this point. I see no other choice.

Would you rather they fail and you be right or they succeed and you be wrong? And how many times do you want to double down on that bet?