ajm9191 said:
Hardly any Cal fans at the Colisuem today. I can recall going to USC games as a kid and the USC Cal games as being one of the more evenly split crowds (this was the early aughts). I really wanted revel in this one, kept my celebration to a sh*t-eating grin and a Go Bears! to anyone wearing Cal gear I could spot.
Where were you sitting? I thought the official Cal rooting section was smaller than normal and I was sort of surprised there weren't many students there, but I think that's what happens when the conference destroys tradition and basically kept an entire generation+ of Cal students from having a true LA weekend game. Think about it, the last time Cal played USC or UCLA on a Saturday in LA was in 2013!! a 1/2 decade of students not doing the 1-5 road trip and eventually institutional memory, habit, tradition all get eroded.
Having said that, we sat on the 50 about 2/3rds the way up behind the Cal bench. We were impressed with how many Cal fans there were throughout the good seats (something that Cal fans would be *****ing about at Memorial if it were SC fans) and around the enclosed endzone.