http://www.predictionmachine.com/college-football-homefield-advantage

Cal #9

Could be an indication of being a terrible road team rather than having a good home field advantage.

Memorial has been a great home field advantage for the Bears. Poor visitors locker room, loud stadium. The Bears have not played well on the road, but we have an excellent record at memorial.

Interesting that Nevada is number 5 and Cal is number 9. I hope Cal can let them know that the Berkeley end of the home and home is bummer for the visiting team. See Tennesee and Maryland.

It's surpising to see Florida St. at 119 out of 120 and UCLA ranking number 3. You would think playing at Doak Campbell would be more of a home field advantage than the Rose Bowl for the Bruins. Of course, this could also mean that FSU is a great road team and that the Ruins are actually worse than Cal on the road.

oskiwanabe;841906386 said:

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Interesting that Nevada is number 5 and Cal is number 9. I hope Cal can let them know that the Berkeley end of the home and home is bummer for the visiting team. See Tennesee and Maryland.

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How about we put these signs all around new California Memorial Stadium?

oskiwanabe;841906386 said:

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Interesting that Nevada is number 5 and Cal is number 9. I hope Cal can let them know that the Berkeley end of the home and home is bummer for the visiting team. See Tennesee and Maryland.

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I hope we can let them know twice, as we get two games in Memorial in exchange for the one in Nevada.

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....That's when the raw value of homefield matters most; when the talent is strong but not elite and players are [COLOR="Blue"]more susceptible[/COLOR] to the impact of crowd noise, tradition and atmosphere.

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Because homefield advantage kicks in automatically for some Programs like Cal, I'm guessing you don't need the Head Coach to be a great motivator at home, but you definitely need him to be a great motivator for road games.