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Weak scores on and off the field for Cal football

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Michelle Richardson on the NCAA by Morris Phillips

SEATTLE–It’s real sad news that Cal’s graduation rate is at number 72 out of the major colleges in the nation and the team is not winning and their supposed to win in the classroom that’s what the university is all about. That’s why universities in the Pac 12 conference which is an academic conference but not at the highest level unfortunately but near the highest level.

The football team is not performing well on the field and it hasn’t been a good first year for Cal head coach Sonny Dykes in his program and that’s some bad news. I don’t think the Bears are going to win this weekend either as they get ready to face the Huskies in Washington so they would fall to 1-7 on the season.

The academic news is disturbing because if guys can’t perform in the classroom they can’t get on the field, they can’t help the school. It’s surprising but I’m sure they’ll get it worked out while it’s depressing you have to assume the school is going to work it out with the group they have now with guys going to class.

Back in 2009 Cal had some of the worst graduation rates in the NCAA until former Cal head coach Jeff Tedford got his students to turn around their academic scores in the classroom and got the team to start winning. Tedford won a bunch of recruiting battles. He had successes with his students, with recruiting and getting them good test scores even though Tedford was heading out the door.

Tedford bears a great deal of responsibility of getting the program off the ground at that time but Dykes is the coach now and these are his kids and this is his team he needs to get on the football field and to coach his problem. Dykes is not going anywhere there’s so much money involved in getting Tedford out and paying the new coach there won’t be any changes.

Cal must clean their problem up, they have to internally, they have to get it fixed. It’s not what the university is all about. Once again Tedford is the origin of the problem but it is truly and squarely on Dykes at this point. Cal Athletic Director Sandy Barbour did not comment on the story only to say that she will look into the low academic situation of the graduation rates and “put systems in place that we believe will raise for under preforming teams.”

None of the players with graduating issues were recruited by Dykes and a majority of them were not on the Cal Men’s basketball team, “a top priority for this program since this staff was formed has always and will always be for our student-athletes to complete their undergraduate degree.” said Cal men’s basketball head coach Mike Montgomery.

Tedford said about the low graduation rate, “(it was) very concerning, it makes it seem like we weren’t dedicated to academics, no matter what anybody says that’s not true, people have good intentions but life goes in a different direction, they rarely come back. Looking back the lesson I learned was to have them graduate in four and half years.”

Morris Phillips is filling in for Michelle Richardson on NCAA commentary this week

Michael Duca on Cal football

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by Michael Duca

BERKELEY–One reason why the students at Cal Berkeley are walking around here with their mouths open after the loss to Oregon State which is not very polite by the way they were completely unprepared for the fact that Oregon State plays pretty good football in their 49-17 win.

Sean Mannion the Beavers starting quarterback was another reason why the students left with their mouths open he’s the leading quarterback not only in the Pac 12 he basically the FBS 1-19 highest rated quarterback in the country he came in the Cal game with the top quarterback rating.

Mannion could deliver the long ball, he can deliver the short ball, he’s got a nice touch, I’m sure that somewhere in between stacking poker chips and just saying how high three million dollars is former Bears head coach Jeff Tedford has to wondering how he missed this kid.

Mannion put in a good day’s work considering he was not paid for it, we can sit here and rag on the Bears all you want, you have to remember this is a team that has lost seven of the 11 original starters on defense, six to injuries, and one due to dismissal from the team. The Bears lost their best defensive end, they lost their best linebacker, they lost their best cover cornerback, they lost their best safety, and they lost their best defensive tackle.

Not only have they lost a ton of players and of course if you lose seven your going to lose some tough games automatically. On the defensive line if your rated the players one, two, three and four they manage to lose one player. It’s been a very hard season for the Bears over at Strawberry Canyon.

Bears quarterback Jared Goff couldn’t find the handle on the football a couple of times he got separated from the ball after a couple nasty hits. They took him out in the fourth quarter as much as anything else to make sure that his confidence didn’t get destroyed by being out there and being punished.

Honestly for the rest of the year I just see only one game out of the remaining six on the schedule that they have that they might have a shot at to compete and have a fighting chance to win it and it’s against Colorado. The Bears are going up to Washington against the Huskies a team that’s jockeying for position in the Pac 12 and will be overladen with emotion because long time head coach Don James who passed away at the age of 90 on Monday morning.

James’ entire family will be out on the field at Husky Stadium Saturday as part of the opening coin toss and you know that stadium is just going to be rocking.

Michael Duca covers Cal Bears football each week for Sportstalk radio

Cal ran over again by Oregon State, falls to 1-6

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By Morris Phillips

With California football stuck in a rut deep enough to ruin consecutive seasons, the last opponent the Bears needed to see on Saturday night was Oregon State.   So when Sean Mannion looked like Sean Canfield and Brandin Cooks approximated Jacquizz Rodgers, you didn’t need to answer a quiz to know the Bears were cooked, falling 49-17 to the Beavers.

Mannion completed 35 of 45 for a whopping 481 yards while Cooks ran and caught to his heart’s content, finishing with 13 catches for 231 yards as Cal’s deficiencies in the secondary and linebacker corps compromised the entire Cal defense as OSU jumped to a 28-3 halftime lead.

“We didn’t play well, didn’t coach well,” a frustrated Coach Sonny Dykes said.  “I’d like to be able to say something happened other than what did.    You saw what happened, I don’t need to say much about it.”

The loss was Cal’s 11th consecutive over two seasons against Division I competition.  The losing streak now stands as the longest of any team in a BCS conference with the Bears last win coming against Washington State over a year ago.  And Cal hasn’t much success with OSU in any state, losing to the Beavers for the 12th time in their last 15 meetings.

Much of that streak coincides with Mike Riley’s arrival in Corvallis in 1997 and his quick-twitch passing game that has given Cal fits.   Just as Canfield and Yvenson Bernard were hard to contain in OSU monumental 2007 upset of No. 2 Cal, Mannion and Cooks were a lethal combination on Saturday.  While Mannion flawlessly executed the quick screens and occasional downfield strikes, Cooks did the rest, scoring twice—first on an end-around run and then on a 34-yard pass play– in OSU’s first half explosion.

“He is a heck of a football player,” Dykes said when asked what tactics Cal used to attempt to slow Cooks.  “That is what good players do, make plays when they have an opportunity to do so.  He did it over and over again.”

The Bears lost their lone experienced corner Stefan McClure for the season two weeks ago, and their youthful secondary paid dearly without him as the Beavers’ quicker playmakers had their way throughout.   The Bears got back corner Joel Willis and linebacker Jalen Jefferson but the result was a hodge podge of poor tackling, inability to engage and shed OSU blockers as the Beavers and Mannion made play after play.

With the Bears trailing 35-3 in the third quarter, Dykes replaced starting quarterback Jared Goff with Zach Kline, and the redshirt freshman from Danville provided a spark, leading the Bears on their only two touchdown drives of the night.  Kline finished 11 of 16 for 71 yards and the two scores while Goff was 21 of 31 for 220 yards.  Dykes said along with the lopsided numbers on the scoreboard, he felt that Goff was having trouble holding on to the football, similar to his three fumble performance at Oregon in the rain.

“I’m extremely upset with myself,” Goff said.  “I need to play better to give us a chance to win.”

Statistically, Cal didn’t display many warts between the 20’s, but once again bogged down in scoring range due to penalties and a Vincenzo D’Amato missed field goal attempt.   Primary playmakers Chris Harper, Richard Rodgers and Brendan Bigelow combined for 18 catches but none of three could put the ball in the end zone.   On the night, the Bears ran 77 offensive plays—below the 90 plays Dykes would prefer–and amassed 366 yards in offense.

The Bears (1-6, 0-4) visit the refurbished Husky Stadium in Seattle next Saturday in a meeting with Washington.  Oregon State—already winners of three Pac-12 road contests—returns to Corvallis for a showdown with Stanford.

Michael Duca on Cal football

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by Michael Duca
BERKELEY–I had a chance to work with Cal Bears radio play by play man Joe Starkey at the Rose Bowl when the Bears played against UCLA last Sat Oct 12th. I had a chance to show him around my childhood press box except I didn’t recognize much of the press box today. It’s named after a living person it’s always dangerous to name a building after a living person because their not yet done with establishing their reputation.
Joe and I had delightful time discussing how Cal has been thoroughly dismantled in the first half of the season as they get ready to go into the game with Oregon State this Saturday with a record of 1-5 and their only win came at home back on September 7th against Portland State. They’ve been dismantled in the first half and their trying to figure out what they might try to do to try to respond to UCLA in the second half.
These guys that do the Cal Bears radio network are pros nobody has ever done a more shameless call in the history of college football than Joe Starkey when he called the famous lateral plays that led the Bears to a famous comeback over Stanford and Joe was yelling “the band is on the field” over and over when the Bears scored for a touchdown. The call was so well known and it’s pretty amazing to know an icon.
Starkey has done a lot in his time and he even passed down the line to his son who is a highly respected statistician the two or three best people in the country at doing talent stats providing statistical information to broadcasters on the air while their doing their work and it’s a job I do occasionally. It’s not easy to learn someone else’s rhythm and timing and figure out what they anticipate what they want to know before they know it so you could have it ready.
Team roughing it out and getting ready for Oregon State: It seems to me that Cal played better against Oregon than against Oregon State in the last decade and a half but that could be faulty on that part. Oregon State will be forever locked in my mind as the team that came out of nowhere to deny Cal the number one spot in the rankings by scoring three touchdowns on them late in the game.
This Cal team is in transition, they had issues with their defense before the season began it was very young and very inexperienced and now they are still very young and very inexperienced and very injured. Five starters are out of the line up for various amounts of time all the way up to forever. It’s very difficult they can move the ball very well although they had issues last week against UCLA.
On the other hand you can see elements of what they are capable of doing from time to time, right now they haven’t solved their number one tailback, the don’t have the running game, they count on managing the control block and as a net result what their doing is running what seems like 1000 plays a game but it’s really about 100 but it feels like 1000. Your putting the ball in the air 40-50 times a game and your leaving yourself to the possibility of having bad things happening and more scores will go lopsided and not in Cal’s favor.
Michael Duca covers Cal Bears football for Sportstalk Radio

Cal next takes on Bruins

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By George Devine, Sr.

The Golden Bears face the Bruins of UCLA in the annual intramural football game of the University of California, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, October 12 at 7:30 p.m. PDT. It will likely be the only appearance in the Rose Bowl this year for the Bears, who lost on the previous Saturday to Washington State, 44-22, and are now 0-4 in the Pac-12 ( 1-4 overall, including a pre-conference win over Portland State).

UCLA is now 1-0 in conference and 4-0 for the season and coming up #12 in national polls. Much of the credit for that belongs to quarterback Brent Hundley, whom the Bears must stop if they are to come up with their first win in league play. In a 34-27 win over Utah in the previous week, Hundley accounted for one touchdown passing, one rushing and one receiving. His passing yardage was 211 and he rushed for 85. Cal’s defense, which has been poor all year, will have a hard time stopping him.

Meanwhile, the Bruin defense notched half a dozen interceptions against Utah and that should have a chilling effect on Cal quarterback Jared Goff’s |”Bear Raid”. Goff has a strong arm, to be sure, and passed for 489 yards against the Cougars. But his team was picked off twice in the red zone and coach Sonny Dykes has cited the need for better ball control. Moreover, Goff has a tendency to overthrow so as to avoid being picked, and he remains easy to read. The offensive line still needs to give him more time and confidence in the pocket.

Cal will be playing UCLA without the services of center Chris Adcock, due to a knee injury, and safety Alex Logan, out for medical reasons. Neither is expected to return this season.

The remainder of the Bears’ schedule is as follows, with all kickoff times to be determined:

10/19: Oregon State
10/26: @ Washington
11/2: Arizona
11/9: USC
11/16: @ Colorado
11/23: @ Stanford

Cal mistake prone again, falls to Washington State

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Cal’s offensive numbers are eye-popping, but they don’t obscure the fact that the Bears are rapidly losing ground in the otherwise upwardly-mobile Pac-12.

The Bears fell prey to early miscues and turnovers again, and fell to Washington State on Saturday, 44-22.  With only one win over Portland State in the previous 12 months, Cal has dropped nine straight games to FBS competition and fell to 1-4 on the season.

Daniel Lasco’s fumble at WSU’s 3-yard line on Cal’s first possession and a bushel of penalties on the second poisoned Cal’s first quarter that ended with WSU leading 14-0.  In the previous two games, Cal trailed Oregon 27-0 and Ohio State 21-0 establishing a disturbing pattern that has Coach Sonny Dykes looking for answers.

“Right now we are having a very difficult time running the football, which is putting a lot of pressure on our offensive line,” Dykes said.  “We are not good enough up front to pass protect.  Jared (Goff) had pressure on him all day and got a little rattled because of it.”

Goff may have been rattled, but in Dykes’ system the pass plays just keep coming.  The true freshman signal caller again threw for 400 yards, attempting 58 passes that produced two lengthy touchdown plays.  But the Bears never got closer than 14-12 in the second quarter as Washington State’s Connor Halliday attempted 67 passes, completing 41 for a total of 521 yards and three touchdowns.

Ultimately, the 44,000 that attended saw another lengthy football game, filled with big plays but lacking in competitiveness.   The mistake-plagued Bears committed 11 penalties and five turnovers to rob the afternoon of any drama.

And while the Bears fluctuated between the mistakes and the home runs like Chris Harper’s 89-yard touchdown catch and run, Washington State was remarkably steady in moving the ball via the pass as Halliday was sacked just once.

“The offensive line played unreal,” Halliday said of his protectors.  “That was huge.  Those guys really got in a rhythm up front and dominated the game.  I think I got hit twice.  That’s a lot of fun back there when you have all that time to get rid of the ball.”

The Bears had beaten Washington State eight straight times prior to Saturday, but the slow start and mounting injuries put a stop to that streak.  Prior to the game, Dykes announced that center Chris Adcock will miss the remainder of the season with a knee injury.  Also, this week safety Alex Logan retired due to recurring injuries and prominent pass rusher Chris McCain was dismissed due to repeated personal conduct issues.

During the game, the Bears lost linebacker Jalen Jefferson, safety Joel Willis and corners Stefan McClure and Kameron Jackson to injury, more bad news for a defense that has surrendered a whopping 45 points per game.

As for the rest of the challenging schedule and Cal’s mounting losing streak against conference competition, they will see three currently-ranked teams (Washington, Stanford and UCLA) as well as Oregon State, currently 4-1 and 2-0 in the conference in the final seven weeks.   On the positive side, the Bears could be healthier once the schedule eases in November with home games against USC and Arizona and a road trip to Colorado.

Next Saturday, the Bears face 12th-ranked UCLA at the Rose Bowl.

Cal to host WSU on Saturday

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By George Devine, Sr.
After losing to second-ranked Oregon, 55-16 in a rainy road game at Autzen Stadium, the Golden Bears host Washington State at Memorial Stadium at 1 p.m. PDT on Saturday, October 5. The Cougars also lost their last game, 55-17, to fifth-ranked Stanford.
Fumbles played a role in the loss to the Ducks, and the windy downpour was not helping. Weather for the WSU contest is expected to be cooperative, but Sonny Dykes and his charges will have to ramp up their ball control skills and allow more protection to the quarterback. Jared Goff lost two fumbles at Oregon. He was replaced late in the first period by redshirt freshman Zach Kline, who may see some action against the Cougs. Also look to WR James Grisom as a target; he caught one of Kline’s passes for a 7-yard touchdown play. On defense, Stefan McClure and Deandre Coleman may do even better against WSU than they did against Oregon. McClure broke up three Oregon passes and. Deandre Coleman led Cal in tackles with eight . Washington State will also be concentrating on improved defense, after giving up 311 yards in only the first half against Stanford.
After Saturday’s game, Cal’s schedule is:
October 12 @ UCLA

October 19 Oregon State

October 26 @ Washington

November 2 Arizona

November 9 USC (Joe Roth game)

November 16 @ Colorado

November 23 @ Stanford

Michelle Richardson on the NCAA

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Florida (2-1, 1-0) 31 vs. Tennessee (2-2, 0-1) 17: Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel who broke his leg Saturday will be out for the rest of the season. Injuries are tough and that’s college football and you have to be prepared for that and it was a win for Florida 31-17 over the Tennessee Vols. Tennessee didn’t look horrible especially for playing on the road and Vols quarterback Justin Worely threw one interception but a tough loss for the Vols. It was tough for Florida quarterback Driskel who went down and was replaced by the rarely used back up Tyler Murphy who threw for 8-14, 134 yards and one touchdown.

I would give Murphy the season for him to fully understand what he’s doing because Murphy hasn’t taken a snap this season and this will be interesting in the least and for Murphy you can only go up. For Driskel this is part of football and it’s part of the game and it’s unfortunate and he was in the game and he was really out to make this happen this time. It was a good FCC match up and we’ll learn more about these two teams as the season progresses on the schedule.

Right now were just too early in the season and we just completed week four and their just now starting their conference schedule so when they have to play Georgia, Alabama, LSU, South Carolina and we’ll definitely know by the time the schedule gets harder how they’ve progressed

Michigan (4-0) 24 vs. UConn (0-3) 21: To be honest if the Wolverines lost this game this might not have been an embarrassing loss and when you have to throw a coin up and you have to meet Ohio State and your in the Big 10 and you have to face the Buckeyes in the final game of the season on November 30th that will be a true test for Michigan. Michigan’s embarrassment would be if they lost to Akron two weeks ago in a close game they won by four points.

I would not say that Michigan was the better team because obviously they weren’t, you got these young men at Akron who gave them a run for their money in that game and they came in prepared to play. The Wolves didn’t win in a blow out money game. For Michigan your number 18 in the AP polls and your in the Big 10 and your allowing teams like UConn and Akron to come into your house and give you a really bad beating.

In this game you saw Michigan fumble twice and they can’t hold onto the ball and Wolves quarterback Devin Gardner threw two interceptions and UConn was able to take advantage of that not so much in the win but UConn came within three points and it’s going to give UConn a lot of confidence in the future playing a lot of teams and UConn is home for the Big East or for the American Conference.

Cincinnati mourns the loss of Ben Flick: Cincinnati offensive lineman Ben Flick died in an auto accident right after the Bearcats win 14-0 on Saturday. He and two others receivers Mark Barr and Javon Harrison were airlifted with an unnamed driver in critical condition to the University of Cincinnati Medical Hospital. Flick became the second student athlete to die in September, UCLA’s Nick Pasquale was killed on September 8th when he was crossing the street when he was ran over and killed in San Clemente and his jersey now hangs in the school gym.

Flick will more than likely be honored at the Bearcats next home game the three were redshirting for the team and did not travel with the team and were in the accident 25 miles north of Cincinnati at the time. I tell young people be careful I know people at the University where I work at that are 18, 21, 22, 24, you think your bullet proof but your not and whatever your doing when your not on campus please be careful.

NCAA players make statement about getting paid will there be a revolution? This argument started years ago but more recently a former UCLA athlete said to AP that all players should stand united. This is something that’s been going on for years Ed O’Bannon a former UCLA basketball player said that the players should be paid and O’Bannon has filed a suit and demanded that their should be a fairer system the lawsuit now is in class action status. O’Bannon saw his likeness on a video game that the maker and the NCAA was making money from and O’Bannon was not receiving any royalties from it. O’Bannon was in the NCAA Championship game in 1995 and had his number 31 retired by the school.

You can say that the NCAA is corrupt but please understand what the NCAA is made of it’s made up of members of institutions and the NCAA two way committee. Look to your NCAA University presidents they are the NCAA. It’s not the NCAA president Mark Emmert he’s the fall guy, he’s kind of passing to the NCAA members and institutions. It’s the University presidents that sit on the board of the NCAA that have to tell Emmert to make legislation or make this rule.

So the players shouldn’t blame the NCAA, blame your university trustees and demand more from your university administration. For people who don’t understand this I’m glad that people or the student athletes are speaking up for themselves and most of the time you have a players who don’t say anything they go through their four years and they don’t get involved in student government and they don’t get involved in anything that would possibly jeopardize their college scholarship because coaches have told these athletes that if they do anything like that they will be cut.

These scholarships are one year renewables so every year by a certain day of the year they would have to tell the player whether they’re bringing the player back or not. I’m telling the students to watch yourself out there because these contracts are not renewable and there has to be a reason not to renew your contract and this is what the general public understands the athletes are not contract workers the coaches are.

So to the student athletes don’t go and yell at Emmert he is a patsy, the responsibility of change in a matter like this lies within your university presidents.

Michelle Richardson does NCAA commentary each week

Bears open Pac-12 against Ducks

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By George Devine, Sr.

The Pac12 conference season for Cal begins on the road against the Ducks of Oregon on Saturday, September 28. New coach Sonny Dykes and his charges — including true freshman quarterback Jared Goff — will be up against a team ranked as high as #2 in the nation’s polls. Cal’s defense has been suspect this year, and will be up against a team that racked up 687 total yards against Tennessee.

The Bears will need to contain.sophomore Marcus Mariota, who against Tennessee threw for a career-high 456 yards including four touchdowns in a 59-14 win. Mariota went 23/33 and was the first Oregon quarterback to pass for more than 400 yards since Kellen Clemens, who did likewise in 2005. Also challenging the Cal defense will be Johnny Mundt, a freshman tight end who had five receptions for two TDs, and a total of 121 yards, against the Vols. Josh Huff also caught six passes for a total of 125 yards, and scored another touchdown for Oregon. Mundt had replaced Colt Lyeria, who had five catches for 121 yards and two touchdowns.

After Oregon, Cal’s remaining games for the season will be as follows, with kickoff times to be announced:

October 5 Washington State

October 12 @ UCLA

October 19 Oregon State

October 26 @ Washington

November 2 Arizona

November 9 USC (Joe Roth Game)

November 16 @ Colorado

November 23 @ Stanford

Bears get declawed by Guiton and the Buckeyes, lose 52 – 34

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by Kahlil Najar

BERKELEY – Kenny Guiton threw three of his four touchdown passes in the first six minutes of the game and the Ohio State Buckeyes (3-0) trampled over the Cal Bears (1-2) 52-34. Guiton went 21 for 36 and threw for 276 yards and four touchdowns including two to Devin Smith who went for a total 149 yards including a school-record 90 yard bomb for Ohio State’s first touchdown. Cal’s freshman phenom Jared Goff threw for 371 yards and connected on three touchdowns to three different receivers.

On his performance tonight, Goff sighed and said, “I felt like we had a good chance to make some plays early on. We kind of fell behind the eight ball there going down 21-0. That kind of hurt. But I was proud of the way we fought back. We never quit.”  That never quit attitude was echoed by Ohio State Head Coach Urban Meyer, “I never felt comfortable with the win until there was three minutes left. I’m happy we faced them early because they’re going to be really good down the road.”

On the ground the Bears were not able to muster one rusher over 100 yards while Ohio State’s Jordan Hall ran for 170 yards and nabbed three touchdowns of his own to help the Buckeyes extend their winning streak to fifteen games.

After a quick three and out from the Bears, Guiton and the Buckeyes only needed two plays and 32 seconds to give them a 7-0 lead on the 90 yard touchdown catch by Devin Smith. Thirty seconds later after another fast three and out, Ohio State took over at their own 27 yard line and Guiton found Devin Smith open again this time for a 47 yard strike to bring the score to 14-0. Cal tried to get back into the game and stop the bleeding but Jared Goff was hit hard by OSU linebacker Ryan Shazier and jarred the ball lose and Ohio State was able to recover the ball on the Cal 23. It took OSU six plays to score again on a one-yard pass to Chris Fields to make it 21-0 Ohio State after only six minutes.

Goff showed his composure on the Bears next possession as he escaped a ferocious pass rush from Ohio State and found a wide open James Grisom for a 61 yard touchdown to put the Bears on the board and make it 21-7. After both teams exchanged turnovers, Ohio State charged down the field and Drew Basil connected on a 39 yard field goal. The first quarter ended with a 42 yard pass from Goff to Chris Harper to give Cal their second touchdown of the quarter and make it a 24-14 Ohio State lead.

In the first quarter alone both teams combined for 38 points and 445 yards of offense. The second quarter saw both offenses slow down as Ohio State grabbed one touchdown and the Bears connected on two field goals to keep the game close at 31-20 at halftime.

Ohio State broke it open in the third when they scored three touchdowns, two of which belonged to Jordan Hall who was able to grab the scores deep in Cal territory but was also able to slow the game down by keeping the ball on the ground. Cal scored one more time in the fourth on a Daniel Lasco one-yard run to bring the final score to 52-34.

The game wasn’t without it’s dramatics as towards the end of the first half Sonny Dykes called for a fake punt on fourth and seven and Cal Quarterback Jared Goff snuck in for punter Cole Leininger and connected on a 11 yard pass to Stefan McClure.

Defensively, the Bears have allowed at least 500 yards of offense every game this year. Dyke’s addressed the issue and said, “We’re a very young football team…we just got to group up. We’ve got to improve. That falls on us as coaches to coach better and bring our players along and put them in a good position to be successful.”

The Bears don’t have much time to get regroup and get ready as they head up to Oregon to take on the Number Two Ducks in Eugene.