Love Cal's 2nd half's - trailing all three games this year and coming back to dominate 2nd half. Kudos to the coaches for bringing a tough mentality to the players. I thinkk we're building something here.

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Love Cal's 2nd half's - trailing all three games this year and coming back to dominate 2nd half. Kudos to the coaches for bringing a tough mentality to the players. I thinkk we're building something here.

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wait...are you saying that the "toughest team wins"?

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LunchTime said:

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Uthaithani said:

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BearNIt said:

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Great adjustments made by the Cal coaches.

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Amazing adjustments on D. Offense and ST need work. Enjoy this - not often a PAC 12 defense pushes around an SEC team like that.

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Haters gonna backtrack...

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Of course I will. Did you miss my crow post a couple weeks back? I'm very happy to be wrong and have Cal win. I get zero satisfaction from being right on this board.

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And yet, you carry on with the absurd hyperbole. Maybe learn from your past?

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What a gritty game by both teams. Hope Patterson goes pro before next year. They are going to win some games this year...and so are we. We've got some real heart on this team and Bowers is tough and getting better.

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I think he can't go pro until junior year since he didn't redshirt

UrsusTexicanus said:

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Glorious day!!! Cal wins, Furd loses, if only Texas had held up their end of the bargain . . . well, can't have everything.

Go Bears!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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And UCLA loses!

3-0. Nice.

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clipman said:

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Love Cal's 2nd half's - trailing all three games this year and coming back to dominate 2nd half. Kudos to the coaches for bringing a tough mentality to the players. I thinkk we're building something here.

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wait...are you saying that the "toughest team wins"?

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It does, but it helps if you actually are the toughest team

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Uthaithani said:

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LunchTime said:

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Uthaithani said:

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BearNIt said:

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Great adjustments made by the Cal coaches.

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Amazing adjustments on D. Offense and ST need work. Enjoy this - not often a PAC 12 defense pushes around an SEC team like that.

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Haters gonna backtrack...

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Of course I will. Did you miss my crow post a couple weeks back? I'm very happy to be wrong and have Cal win. I get zero satisfaction from being right on this board.

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And yet, you carry on with the absurd hyperbole. Maybe learn from your past?

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LOL, and who are you...?

As far as the offense not being good the past two games against less-than-stellar defenses, that's a concern. Wins are great, this win did nothing to alleviate my doubts about this offense. That's to say nothing of the missed FGs.

Welcome to BI, LunchTime!

Player of the game: Devante Downs. Dude was insane today.

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Good thing Cal has been a second half team this season

Only down 9 .... Go Bears!!!!!

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I will quote myself ... I wasn't worried and ALWAYS kept the faith

Great win Bears!!!!! Way to go DEFENSE!!!!!

Can't wait to hear what the visiting recruits thought of it.

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calgldnbear said:

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Good thing Cal has been a second half team this season

Only down 9 .... Go Bears!!!!!

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I will quote myself ... I wasn't worried and ALWAYS kept the faith

Great win Bears!!!!! Way to go DEFENSE!!!!!

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I admit I was VERY worried after the first 2 Old Miss TD's but you could see by the end of the second Q something that the staff had picked up which made a huge different - that the Rebels couldn't sustain and would get worn down. That was such the difference by the 4Q. Huge

Great win!!!!
Go Bears!!!!!!

Man, getting a win makes leaving the stadium at 11:30 pm a lot more palatable.

Nice win Bears.

Kudos to the Cal, Ole Miss players and fans.... See ya in the Grove.

After this game, we all need a drink :

Loved the way you could see the Miss D wear down. Seemed like as the game wore on we got stronger and they got weaker.

The kind of game we played today is the way I always thought Wisconsin plays. Smash mouth football where the team with the most resolve win. I like this style of play.

Can we parlay this into some commitments now?

PLEASE

GO BEARS!!!

Strykur said:

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If our secondary can't go man with them, blitz the rest of the game, that was ridiculous.

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bingo, nice call from the 1st qtr.

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GrizzledBear said:

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cord cutter, haven't watched broadcast TV in prob 4 years. holy ****e, y'all are the frogs being slowly boiled, this **** is insane.

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Dafuq you sayin'?

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he be drunk since 6 in the moning

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LunchTime said:

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Uthaithani said:

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LunchTime said:

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Uthaithani said:

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Great adjustments made by the Cal coaches.

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Amazing adjustments on D. Offense and ST need work. Enjoy this - not often a PAC 12 defense pushes around an SEC team like that.

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Haters gonna backtrack...

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Of course I will. Did you miss my crow post a couple weeks back? I'm very happy to be wrong and have Cal win. I get zero satisfaction from being right on this board.

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And yet, you carry on with the absurd hyperbole. Maybe learn from your past?

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LOL, and who are you...?

As far as the offense not being good the past two games against less-than-stellar defenses, that's a concern. Wins are great, this win did nothing to alleviate my doubts about this offense. That's to say nothing of the missed FGs.

Welcome to BI, LunchTime!

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I'm not the guy constantly ****ting on a 3-0 team comparing them to Holmoe teams...

Who are you?

Opel Gt Rebel said:

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1Drinking Black Velvet and 7up and enjoying the game. Loving the long TD passes by Patterson

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Thanks for stopping by and good luck the rest of the way. Have you ever tried Wild Turkey and Dr. Pepper by chance?

My sample size was too small to know for sure... but thanks to Ole Miss, I know it for sure: I love beating down SEC teams at home.

Great game. Great coaching. Breakdowns in man on man a few time being the only weakness, and settled that down nicely. Amazing that we have such a strong D after so long without. Never thought it would be such a massive turnaround so quickly.

Best part is three games watching Cal get stronger as the game goes on. Like the old Tedford days. I FELT the win coming rather than waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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Second week in a row that Bowers commits a back-breaking turnover inside the opponent's 10 just before the half.

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It's a problem they definitely need to address this week.

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My sample size was too small to know for sure... but thanks to Ole Miss, I know it for sure: I love beating down SEC teams at home.

Great game. Great coaching. Breakdowns in man on man a few time being the only weakness, and settled that down nicely. Amazing that we have such a strong D after so long without. Never thought it would be such a massive turnaround so quickly.

Best part is three games watching Cal get stronger as the game goes on. Like the old Tedford days. I FELT the win coming rather than waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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i think i wouldn't mind seeing cal beat a sec team on the road either...i've a hunch you could be convinced to accept that as well...

also, the dykes regime seriously screwed with my mind...i kept waiting for cal to coug it and lose the game in the end...even after the last ole miss turnover on downs, in the back of my mind i worried that cal would somehow fumble the snap and the rebels would pick it up and run it in, then recover an onside kick, and score on a hail mary to end the game...

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Hope we pitch another second half shutout

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Your halftime wish came true, congratulations!

Wilcox the halftime wizard!

It's SOOO refreshing to see a team that makes adjustments as the game goes on. We've trailed every game so far at halftime, and we've come out in the second half and won. That means that not only do the coaches make changes, but the players have the mental fortitude to understand that the game is 60 minutes long and that they need to keep competing. I can't give enough accolades to the coaching staff and the players for their mindset and execution. Kudos to the Golden Bear team-- you do us all proud.

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It's SOOO refreshing to see a team that makes adjustments as the game goes on. We've trailed every game so far at halftime, and we've come out in the second half and won. That means that not only do the coaches make changes, but the players have the mental fortitude to understand that the game is 60 minutes long and that they need to keep competing. I can't give enough accolades to the coaching staff and the players for their mindset and execution. Kudos to the Golden Bear team-- you do us all proud.

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Refreshing is an appropriate word in many respects.

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also, the dykes regime seriously screwed with my mind...i kept waiting for cal to coug it and lose the game in the end...even after the last ole miss turnover on downs, in the back of my mind i worried that cal would somehow fumble the snap and the rebels would pick it up and run it in, then recover an onside kick, and score on a hail mary to end the game...

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Me, too. It's like we're recovering from PTSD.

Ole Miss vs. Cal football 2017: 3 things we learned from the Rebs' 27-16 loss

I watched the "This is your moment Shea" Pick 6 like 60 times.

That really needs to be videoized.

Bowers is one tough dude. That's two should have been targeting hits in three weeks, plus he stood in there on about 6 different occasions and delivered strikes just before getting pummeled. We need to protect him better, but the guy is tough, and also great at
Finding the open man in blitz situations. I'm proud to have him as a bear.

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Good game , you won. Too bad some of the posters here are jerks. But surprisingly most of you weren't. I certainly expected most of you people to be less than gracious.

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Eh. Cal and Ole Miss have no history and you are guests who made the trek across the country to play us. Both teams have a lot to improve on.

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We'll see them next year in Oxford. Hope they will be at least as gracious as Opel GT was.

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2 years

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The great thing about a 2-year wait is that there will be less motivation for revenge, and a lot of their players from last night's game will be gone.

Trivia question:

When was the last time a 40-year-old, November-born head coach won his first three games at Cal?


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From reading tweets leading up to the game and after the game, here's what I gleaned.

Before the game:

--No way Cal could beat Ole Miss. The Rebels are too fast and talented a squad.

After the game:

--The players are great, the coaching is bad.

--Ole Miss would of won had Hugh Freeze been there (from a Cal fan)

--The injuries!