Well done, KoreAmBear
That was a disappointing season when the Rose Bowl was blown by a loss to fucla.
But, the 28-14 defeat of #3 $C with their Heisman hopeful Ricky Bell was great.
Then Muncie ran all over furd.

KoreAmBear;842544722 said:

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Sept. 20, 1975 -- 40 years ago this week, we lost to Bobby Bowden and West Virginia to start off 0-2. We were supposed to beat them. Joe Roth got PT for the first time. I think section TT was pretty empty. Pics from California Gridiron's FB page. Looks like "Meathead" of All in the Family was on the 20 yard line in Joe Roth's pic.



Stands look empty.

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Wow that's a crazy find...empty stadium, wheel chairs on the sidelines. Times have changed.

FrankBear21;842544597 said:

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The good thing about this team is that they haven't won enough games to be cocky

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I'm not worried about the team being cocky. I'm worried about them being intimidated. Our players know that coming out of HS they were not "good enough" to get scholarship offers from Texas . . . those go to the elite of the elite HS prospects. It's a little like a USC offer here in this state. Our guys need to believe they are the better team, play smart, play hard and play confident.

And our coaches need to help them to be confident. In the film room they need to talk about how Rice outplayed these guys but made dumb mistakes.

beelzebear;842544737 said:

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Wow that's a crazy find...empty stadium, wheel chairs on the sidelines. Times have changed.

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Can you imagine the ADHA "section" being "park your wheelchair on the sideline"? What are the odds a couple of kids in chairs got run into by a wide receiver? Nutty how stuff like this used to be acceptable. Some things really have changed for the better.

gobears725;842544687 said:

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if anything though, id say many of their fans are over confident. we are texas tech west in a shittier conference according to some posts on their board

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I feel like this is a trap game. Because I've been a Bear So long!

Boot;842544775 said:

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I feel like this is a trap game. Because I've been a Bear So long!

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Texas as a trap game, what are we now, Oklahoma?

Boot;842544775 said:

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I feel like this is a trap game. Because I've been a Bear So long!

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admit it could be a Cal chokes game, but not a trap game. this is probably our biggest non-conference game of the Dykes era so far including tOSU

Strykur;842544776 said:

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Texas as a trap game, what are we now, Oklahoma?

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It is possible that I may have a poor understanding of the meaning of the term "trap game" but neither your post nor the post you were quoting makes sense. Texas wouldn't be a trap game for Oklahoma since that is one of the main rivalry game that they wouldn't overlook (maybe the game before or after the Texas game would be a trap game for Oklahoma). And for those who claim that Texas is a trap game for us...considering that it is between SDSU and Washington, I don't see either of those games as being so important that we are coming down from the SDSU game to overlook Texas or Washington is such an important game that, by comparison, Texas is overlooked. I may just be confused in what "trap game" means, but, based on my understanding, Texas could not be a trap game with our current schedule (maybe if we had scheduled Texas right before Stanford).

A trap game is an inferior opponent that could be overlooked by its competition, and rivalry aside, Texas has not been favored against Oklahoma since 2009, but surprised Oklahoma in 2013 after looking awful earlier that season. How is this weekend for us a "trap game"?

Strykur;842544786 said:

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A trap game is an inferior opponent that could be overlooked by its competition, and rivalry aside, Texas has not been favored against Oklahoma since 2009, but surprised Oklahoma in 2013 after looking awful earlier that season. How is this weekend for us a "trap game"?

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we're so good we overlook teams like texas now. welcome to big time college football

Strykur;842544786 said:

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A trap game is an inferior opponent that could be overlooked by its competition, and rivalry aside, Texas has not been favored against Oklahoma since 2009, but surprised Oklahoma in 2013 after looking awful earlier that season. How is this weekend for us a "trap game"?

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I agree with you that Texas is not a trap game for Cal, so I am assuming the question wasn't for me. We are not at the level where any team quite frankly should be disregarded. By the way, I always understood trap game as a game in which a superior team can lose to a weaker team by focusing on the more important game the following week.

OsoDorado;842544495 said:

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It's a little unsettling that everyone seems so confident we will beat Texas.

We definitely have the potential to blow them out with our powerful offense and improved defense. On the other hand, I worry about our special teams.

Anyone else a little concerned?

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1BTF is rooting for you!!!!


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A little worried...I know this is a different team, but traditionally, we've always struggled against running QB's. Also, when was the last time we covered (as a favorite on the road) against an OOC opponent from a Power 5 Conference?

I feel bad for FCHornBear, having to defend Cal fandom over at Shaggy. We got guys looking for 9 or even 11 wins this year. So of course they then assume the whole fanbase is delusional.

Man I'm really looking forward to this game. I have no idea where we're at—this will give us a clue.

What gives me confidence is that this group of players have been together for 2 years now and they've faced the worst kind of adversity together. Even if things go wrong, they're not going to panic. They have confidence that they can pull it together. I do believe they're a resilient bunch.

Cal may not cover, but I am confident they'll pull out a win. Prove me right, bears!

TouchedTheAxeIn82;842544879 said:

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I feel bad for FCHornBear, having to defend Cal fandom over at Shaggy. We got guys looking for 9 or even 11 wins this year. So of course they then assume the whole fanbase is delusional.

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OK he just called me an idiot for saying that most Cal fans are just hoping for a bowl game. Now I'm confused.

TouchedTheAxeIn82;842544905 said:

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OK he just called me an idiot for saying that most Cal fans are just hoping for a bowl game. Now I'm confused.

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He's a good guy, he just have to keep up the image in front of the clowns and imbeciles. It's tough dropping 50 IQ points a night to just post on a Fuckwad board that exists to show how monosyllabic they can be...........

Even with a win at Texas, this is not a great or even good Texas team.

BearPD;842544918 said:

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Even with a win at Texas, this is not a great or even good Texas team.

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I Do Not Care. I just want to beat them.

I'm a little nervous for a lot of people on this board. The last two years have been really rough so it is understandable that people are flying high. The drop back down to reality may not be easy.

beelzebear;842544737 said:

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Wow that's a crazy find...empty stadium, wheel chairs on the sidelines. Times have changed.

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Good find? Wow, you might be more right than you know. What if that is Jabari's dad in the [U]crowd[/U]? Rickie Hawthorne, Gene Ransom, Connie White, or Quincy Fassette? Man I swear that's Rickie H. but I can't tell/remember on the rest of the team.

And however said "meathead" is right, or a slimmer David Crosby lol

tequila4kapp;842544922 said:

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I'm a little nervous for a lot of people on this board. The last two years have been really rough so it is understandable that people are flying high. The drop back down to reality may not be easy.

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That is why win or lose, this bear drinks on game day. The only surprise sometimes comes the next day when I realize how much I spent on booze. That's the mitigation agreement I signed with myself when I became a lifelong Cal fan. I intend to honor it this Saturday.

Last year 3 teams scored 40+ on the Longhorns, in their "tough to play stadium"... If our offense isn't clicking in Austin, it won't be because the Texas D suddenly got better. We need to score, early and often.

Which brings-up a point someone made earlier, about us getting out to fast starts, commenting on NU and Arizona in 2014. Since, minus FCS Grambling State:

Behind against Colorado, WASU, UW, UCLA, Oregon... against the Beavs, 3-0 Cal and the end of the first, not exactly a fast start, but up to 20-10 at the half. Then, Southern Cal playing from behind (despite our D doing quite well initially), also against Stanford. Our final game with BYU, a nice 21 points in the first half. Our first FBS game in 2015 (SDSU), certainly not a fast start. NU and Arizona, fast starts, with big leads, and we close 2014 with the offense clicking pretty well early against BYU.

Otherwise, we most often have started somewhat slow, and of course in some games never got going all that much. As the first quarter was nearing its end last week (about 3 minutes left), we had just one drive, 4 plays, 13 yards, consuming 2 minutes. Thankfully we turned it around, not something that might have happened in 2014. I'd think we'd all like to see this offense light it up and play with an early lead. I'm looking to see this offense do just that in Austin.

A sign that SDSU's D was a tough one is that our normally pretty good 3rd down conversion rate was at just 20% (2 of 10). Pretty bad. That's normally not gonna win many games. We'll be playing more potent offenses than what we saw from SDSU, and Ds that don't fork-over so many drive-extending yards in the form of personal fouls...

Against ND, Texas allowed the Fighting Irish to convert 3rd downs 57% of the time. Against Rice, 66%! For perspective, only 8 teams in FBS averaged 50% or better on 3rd down conversions in 2014. AND, just as suspected, guess who is number 128, last in FBS, in allowing 3rd downs to be converted? The Longhorns.

I'm expecting a win in Austin. At a minimum, we convert 3rd downs half the time. And, we score early and often - please.