[Postgame Thread] UCLA Defeats California 45-24

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
UCLA	7	17	0	21	45
California	7	10	7	0	24

[u/snuggleskrt]

JKS giveth and JKS taketh away

[u/TinderForMidgets → u/snuggleskrt]

He's playing too much hero ball. It's concerning that hasn't been coached out of him yet. That's why they lose games.

[u/breakwater → u/TinderForMidgets]

I'm worried he's going to end up hurt worse than tonight. There is a connection between his interception balls and him gimpy leg.

[u/TinderForMidgets → u/breakwater]

That was tough to watch. Cal had a ton of hype this offseason. I hope JKS doesn't feel too much pressure to perform.

[u/BoogerSugarSovereign → u/TinderForMidgets]

He's a true sophomore. Would not be weird at all if he still has a lot of development ahead of him at this point, you need the reps to improve. Feels like the difference in experience between Nico and JKS was very visible throughout the game tonight

[u/Vocen → u/snuggleskrt]

He's so good most of the time and so bad when he isn't

[u/Dirk_Benedict → u/Vocen]

Wait, are we talking about JKS or Dante?

[u/t_ran_asuarus_rex → u/Dirk_Benedict]

Si

[u/theliver]

4th quarter from hell.

Id rather lose by 21 to ucla than play in the ACC any day

[u/fairebelle → u/theliver]

This makes want to hug you

[u/Orca6771]

My prediction that the blue and yellow team, from California, which has a bear mascot, a new coach, and a QB with a hard to pronounce name would win the game was 100% correct. Please clap

[u/Zloggt → u/Orca6771]

Erm, you forgot “ex-Pac-12 member” as a descriptor too ☝️🤓

[u/msbshow → u/Zloggt]

Who has a certain melody as their fight song (yes we share a fight song, don’t question it)

[u/breaktaker → u/msbshow]

Oh that’s actually super weird

[u/versusChou → u/breaktaker]

Copying one of my previous comments. Basically UCLA wasn't originally it's own school. It was part of Berkeley, so they share a lot of stuff:

They used to be the same school. When Cal was the only UC, UCLA was created as the Southern Branch of the University of California (SBUC) What a lot of people don't know is that the stuff they used to create the Southern Branch was actually part of San Jose State's Southern Branch. Eventually, UCLA became it's own school, but since it used to be part of Cal, it had already had the same colors and mascot. They made the mascot the Cubs (SBUC backwards) since UCLA was kinda the baby of the Golden Bears. It took four years before they got tired of that and changed the mascot to the Grizzlies. Then UCLA tried to join the PCC and Montana was already there. They didn't want two schools to have the same mascot, so UCLA changed it. There was a vote an some of the suggestions were Buccaneers and Gorillas. Eventually Cal gifted a name they had already used (Bruins) to the school.

As for the colors, UCLA used to have the same colors, but changed it to a light blue (powderkeg blue) because back then on grainy, black and white film our white numbers weren't visible on the blue jerseys and made the football team hard to scout.

We also have the same fight song which we just stole after an All-UC day where four UCs had a doubleheader and the combined bands played Big C. Funnily, this was right before the John Wooden run, so most of the country ended up associating the song with UCLA (we did have another fight song before called By the Old Pacific and later got one from Bill Conti called Mighty Bruins).

One funny thing is for the script logos, Cal actually copied UCLA (or possibly Ohio State). It is pretty clear that UCLA was the first of the two to use it. From what I've been able to dig up, there was a Rose Bowl in the 50s where Ohio State came, and it seems very likely that UCLA copied script Ohio. Cal would copy either UCLA or Ohio State after that.

The lore goes deep!

[u/donutello2000 → u/versusChou]

Cal supported us when we were young, and we're now providing for them when they're old.

[u/lloybokchoy → u/versusChou]

Wait i never understood why script ucla is written as if Ucla is a word. Like Cal is short for California but UCLA is an acronym..?

[u/Mike_with_Wings → u/versusChou]

The fact that we don’t have the UCLA Gorillas in the world is severely disappointing

[u/versusChou → u/Mike_with_Wings]

As cool as it would've been, I think we lucked out on avoiding the racist imagery that would've come from the first black MLB and NFL players all being gorillas

[u/CieraVotedOutHerMom → u/Orca6771]

Please 8 clap

[u/psufb → u/Orca6771]

Forgot to add "in the University of California system"

[u/No-Owl-6246 → u/psufb]

Name written in cursive script

[u/TinderForMidgets → u/Orca6771]

8-clap!

[u/Alarming_Traffic745 → u/Orca6771]

the amount of people in the game thread who didn't get this joke was something else. like they were actually mad about it. the name part killed me cause i still can't say garbers without sounding like i got peanut butter in my mouth

[u/TheOnePSUIsReal → u/Orca6771]

My prediction that the blue and yellow team, from California, which has a bear mascot, a new coach, and a QB with a hard to pronounce name would lose the game was 100% correct.  Bow down to me.

[u/AmonRaDawg → u/Orca6771]

Clap....me?

[u/Archelon225]

a man asks God, how am i supposed to live, without my blue and gold california public flagship university with a new coaching staff and pacific islander quarterback

God simply said "That is why I made 2 blue and gold california public flagship universities with new coaching staffs and pacific islander quarterbacks"

The man just smiled.

[u/Cal_858 → u/Archelon225]

Nice one, good game tonight. Good luck the rest of the season

[u/Cador0223 → u/Archelon225]

Every time the quarterbacks name was said on broadcast, my mind just kind of shut off halfway through the name. 

That kid needs a nickname, fast. There's no way the commentators dont mangle it during a broadcast, and quite possibly in a not-so-polite way.

[u/Boomhauer_007 → u/Cador0223]

Cal QB is often called JKS and Nico is just called Nico for UCLA

[u/JBru_92]

We got a ball coach

[u/breakwater → u/JBru_92]

He needs to clean up penalties. But everything else looked so much improved. Even in the areas they struggled they looked better than last year

[u/JoshFB4 → u/breakwater]

The fact that it was close because we were undisciplined and had some real stupid plays feels a lot better than just being out schemed and outmatched on the lines.

[u/Linktheb3ast → u/JoshFB4]

Y’all are much closer to being competitive in conference than Foster ever could’ve fathomed possible, and I hate it

[u/JoshFB4 → u/Linktheb3ast]

The schedule is incredibly soft this year as well. Our hardest matchups are you guys and Oregon. Michigan was supposed to be difficult as well but we saw how they looked today so maybe not.

[u/Linktheb3ast → u/JoshFB4]

Upsettingly, you might come into our game 10-1 lol, see you in November for a shot at glory

[u/Ordinary-Wafer-8919 → u/breakwater]

It's the first game. Only up from here.

[u/breakwater → u/Ordinary-Wafer-8919]

He'll care more about penalties than Mora, more about the job than Kelly, but does he know UCLA is in Los Angeles like Foster?

[u/majorgeneralporter → u/JBru_92]

Many people are saying Chesney for coach of the year is free money

[u/Cascadia_14 → u/JBru_92]

Thank you for your interim!

[u/Archelon225 → u/Cascadia_14]

Best of luck to Cal Poly! First game was a banger and I hope Skipper keeps steering the ship well.

[u/Dirk_Benedict → u/Cascadia_14]

Hell yeah, rooting for our central coast cousins this year

[u/Mazeura → u/Cascadia_14]

Thought you were talking about Fisch for a second

[u/TheOnePSUIsReal → u/JBru_92]

I am happy with Campbell but I was on the Chesney Train during our search.

[u/TeMilkMan]

IT’S A GREAT DAY TO BE ALIVE AND BE A BRUIN, BOB CHESNEY YOU SAVED MY LIFE

[u/majorgeneralporter → u/TeMilkMan]

I love JMUCLA

[u/TinderForMidgets → u/TeMilkMan]

UCLA is the greatest public university in the world!!!!

[u/weyburnloisiada]

Wayne Knight is everything.

[u/Pattisean → u/weyburnloisiada]

Hello Newman!

[u/t_ran_asuarus_rex → u/weyburnloisiada]

Bruce Wayne Dark Knight

[u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy]

It’s a travesty this isn’t an in-conference game

[u/CieraVotedOutHerMom → u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy]

Just your normal big 10 / ACC clash

[u/SimilarOnion1655 → u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy]

They are playing in 2027, 28, and 29

[u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo → u/SimilarOnion1655]

Which is funny, because due to the size of the Big 10, we won't be playing any conference opponent 4 years in a row (aside from USC).

[u/bruhstevenson → u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo]

Dang really? I feel like they should protect all the west coast schools as a pod so that we at least all play each other every year

[u/Wittyname0 → u/bruhstevenson]

Perhaps a pack of 12 or so west coast teams

[u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo → u/bruhstevenson]

Yes. We didn't play Oregon last year and don't play Washington this year after playing them in 24 and 25.

[u/PlasticCantaloupe1 → u/bruhstevenson]

Yeah maybe get the size up to 20 and split into two groups of 10. One group could be the more classic big 10 and the other could be like the pacific coast 10 since they’re closer to that coast.

[u/Wittyname0 → u/IrishCoffeeAlchemy]

:(

[u/Vyllm]

Missed you Cal, until next time 💙💛

[u/OceanPoet87 → u/Vyllm]

Glad this is a longer series.

[u/SimilarOnion1655 → u/Vyllm]

Next time is next year in your house this time

[u/Excellent_Hedgehog62 → u/SimilarOnion1655]

I'll miss you capacity crowd...

[u/msbshow → u/Excellent_Hedgehog62]

Hey if we do good… maybe we can fill 50% of our stadium!

[u/Excellent_Hedgehog62 → u/msbshow]

I’m actually interested to see what rose bowl turnout will look like next Saturday, especially with this promising win. Obviously not the best opponent, but I for one will be there.

[u/Statpaca1701 → u/Excellent_Hedgehog62]

In general I consider Chesney superior to Lupoi, but tearing down the tarps was good move. One we should copy.

Edit: When comparing UCLA to Cal attendance always worth considering the Rose Bowl is 47% larger than memorial stadium. A sell out there is an "embarrassing" crowd in the Rose Bowl.

[u/bruhstevenson → u/Excellent_Hedgehog62]

It’s still not gonna be great because school isn’t back in session yet

[u/Dirk_Benedict → u/msbshow]

At least we have bathrooms

[u/WisdomCow]

Spent most of the off season worried about the OL. As season got closer, all the talk about the weapons we got in the portal made me push the worries aside. The worries are back.

[u/TommyFX → u/WisdomCow]

They had their moments in the second half when Mohammed got it going on a couple of long drives. But I think when the center went down it got very dicey and JKS was running for his life.

[u/mathmat → u/TommyFX]

I think the bigger factor for the third quarter is UCLA not staying on the field on offense really wore down the UCLA DTs. There was NO penetration up the middle on the base plays for a long stretch.

[u/TripleAim]

Jarmond gone, Foster gone, Kelly gone, UCLA wins. The world is healing.

[u/Djinn_Eric → u/TripleAim]

Saint Bill of Walton smiles as he looks down from a cloud. 

[u/t_ran_asuarus_rex → u/Djinn_Eric]

I loved hearing his soliloquies on the Conference of Champions

[u/Lowbacca1977 → u/TripleAim]

Not really healing until UCLA and Cal are back in a Pacific coast conference, but I accept a lack of happy endings in life

[u/fellowhuman123]

Much closer than final score indicates. This game was borderline unwatchable due to both a broadcast that made it look dark as hell and penalties every other play.

Also, Wayne Knight is the man. Go Bruins!

[u/LabOk6108 → u/fellowhuman123]

gotta feel bad for staying neck and neck the whole time, followed by that double pick, followed by the stadium completely clearing out. if i was playing i’d feel so defeated

[u/Jekena → u/fellowhuman123]

I thought my TV broke until they cut to other cameras

[u/YoUDee → u/fellowhuman123]

The Wayne Knight? Of Newman fame?

[u/MrFace1 → u/fellowhuman123]

Enjoy Knight, he's a special player

[u/Terror-Byte-523 → u/fellowhuman123]

Calimony is getting the moochers new lights

[u/ImJLu → u/Terror-Byte-523]

It was actually discretionary funding from the state legislature because the new lights are much more eco-friendly 🙂

[u/versusChou → u/ImJLu]

We need to put your stadium lights in car headlights and take those brightass LEDs from the cars and put them in your stadium

[u/ImJLu → u/versusChou]

They are bright ass LEDs, the ESPN color grading was just fucked on all but a few is the cameras lol

[u/Dirk_Benedict → u/Terror-Byte-523]

It's also paying for tons of port a pottys and janky hand washing stations, because apparently actual bathrooms are a bridge too far

[u/midwestbruin → u/fellowhuman123]

The broadcast quality sucked....but it's so refreshing to have optimism, and it's amazing to know that we have a real coach. As long as Nico doesn't have long-term injury issues (like maybe letting the running backs do the running!), this team will be fun to watch.

[u/zamboniman46 → u/fellowhuman123]

He was awesome, needs more touches

[u/Separate_Grass_2775]

wow that 4th was absolutely horrible from cal

[u/Dirk_Benedict → u/Separate_Grass_2775]

Always has been

[u/SirGergoyFriendman → u/Dirk_Benedict]

The best part of being a Cal fan is finding new ways to build hope and then destroy it.

[u/Desperate-Remove2838]

Congrats to the UCLA Bruins. I guess coaching experience does matter.

As for Cal, hope they get their shit together. They can still do damage in the eleven remaining games.

There were flashes of magic there but no consistent “power of unit”.

[u/veritek25 → u/Desperate-Remove2838]

For all the talk about culture and pillars, Tosh still has alot of work to do to change the team's mentality - especially in the 4th quarter and end of games. 3 4Q turnovers aside, giving up a 54-yd rushing TD in garbage time is the antithesis of 'relentless effort'.

That miscommunication & fumble on 4th down killed Cal's momentum then we collapsed afterwards. Overall sloppy play leading to 4th quarter collapse, not too different from past years under Wilcox.

OL & DL need a lot of improvement quickly, or it's going to be another disappointing 7~ish win season. Hopefully Swinney (senior C) is okay; the Vargas (RB) injury didn't look very good either.

[u/tjn1126 → u/veritek25]

The offensive play calling was really poor tonight I thought. Really Showed his inexperience

[u/Statpaca1701 → u/Desperate-Remove2838]

For what it's worth I was impressed by Cal. Could've collapsed in the 2nd, didn't. 3rd put a real scare into me as a UCLA fan. I'm a bit biased but always liked Chesney's experienced staff against Lupoi's first timers. JKS and the receivers are legit. Just don't let us beat you twice when you travel to Syracuse and you'll be fine on the season.

[u/Honestly_]

From JMU, Bob Chesney brought 11 athletes (including RB Wayne Knight), 7 coaches, and 19 support staff.

The Calimony Clash needs to be part of the regular non-conference rotation!

[u/msbshow → u/Honestly_]

I have good news for you! There’s games scheduled the next three years!

[u/Electromotivation → u/Honestly_]

The assimilation will continue until all teams are JMU franchises!

[u/wrose21]

Not only did we win, but we also don’t have to see a crappy post from Martin Jarmond taking credit for it. It’s a good day, Bruin fans.

We’ll worry about the injuries and the other things another day. Today is for a brief momentary celebration. We’ve come a long way.

Go bruins! Good luck this year Cal friends, JKS looks like he could be the real deal.

[u/Dirk_Benedict → u/wrose21]

You never know, he might still post something and try to take credit

[u/smcstechtips → u/wrose21]

We'll (hopefully) have a natty rematch (or at least a playoff rematch)

[u/Crazyhawk28]

Maybe the Calgorithm is not to be trusted?

[u/EggplantAlpinism → u/Crazyhawk28]

We've been coping for decades. You're locked in here with us, we're not trying to delude you

[u/Crazyhawk28 → u/EggplantAlpinism]

I've had old people try to explain to me that we used to be huge rivals with each other, but you guys have always been my favorite. I'm riding with the Calgorithm always.

[u/RageCake14 → u/Crazyhawk28]

Washington Cal is primarily rowing rivalry

[u/ARayofLight → u/Crazyhawk28]

Bow Down to Washington was written for Cal. We had a song written for you as well. It dates back to the PCC days when we were conference powers, with USC, UCLA, and Stanford. Those are days long gone.

[u/Crazyhawk28 → u/ARayofLight]

Always knew the original song had references to Cal, but never realized how violent they were lmao. Definitely a long gone rivalry, but pretty interesting.

[u/Efficient-Permit-725 → u/ARayofLight]

Yeah Cal used to be Washington's biggest rival until around 1950 or so when USC became the bigger competitive threat with Oregon becoming #1 in the late 90s. Other rivalries always existed but Cal and USC were considered the bigger threats to go to the Rose Bowl.

[u/pietya]

Chesney and Co. are fantastic coaches and it showed in this game. Cal gambled on a 1st time HC with a 1st time OC and DC and it showed in every phase of the game. All I can say is I hope we learn from this and move along.

See ya next year

[u/QuarantineTaratino → u/pietya]

I had no idea the OC and DCs are first timers too. I'm surprised Ron didn't push Tosh to hire more experienced coordinators since he's a first time HC

[u/mostly-amazing → u/QuarantineTaratino]

Inexperience and weak coaching shows up in the 4th quarter of close games. That being said, I think Cal looks better than last year.

#54 and Lopa had awful games.

[u/Informal_Avocado_534 → u/QuarantineTaratino]

There are assistant coaches with tons of experience: Nick Rolovich was a good HC at Hawaii (and did…. Something… at Wazzu) and is Associate Head Coach (and QB coach). Bob Gregory was our DC under Tedford for almost a decade and is now our ILB coach.

But our HC, DC, and OC have never had those roles before. I like them all but they’re basically freshmen—gonna be some growing pains.

[u/MariotaM8 → u/pietya]

Next year? Cal played great until the last 10 minutes. I think both teams go bowling this year and are on the rise

[u/theREALMVP → u/MariotaM8]

That really was just about the worst 6 minute stretch possible. If Strong hangs onto that ball we are talking about a completely different game. UCLA probably the 3rd or 4th best team we’ll play all year so with this easy schedule I think we can still scrape 8 wins. See yall next year 🤝

[u/pietya → u/MariotaM8]

I was talking about our game @ UCLA next year haha apologies for being turbo doomer there, I will be there next week for @ Cuse.

I think Chesney has UCLA in a good direction, especially on the ground. The run concepts in the 1st half were immaculately called.

[u/MariotaM8 → u/pietya]

Oof my bad haha, #2 public university and all that lol

[u/Away_Experience6922]

Dick Chesney will lead us to the promised land

[u/JoshFB4 → u/Away_Experience6922]

Gorgeous 3 headed monster running game. That’s how you win football games

[u/zigggzzz → u/JoshFB4]

o-line play was much improved from the last few years (more like decade) too

[u/Cfb-Enjoyer]

JMU coaches man. Congrats on next years natty UCLA.

[u/Beans34_90 → u/Cfb-Enjoyer]

Inject it into my veins!!!

[u/Chet_Manly24]

Tis nice to see UCLA at 1-0 lol let us savor it.

[u/versusChou]

It's me. The cooler UC.

[u/despideme]

At long last, the return of a Bruin team I will watch for enjoyment rather than out of loyalty

[u/Noy_Telinu → u/despideme]

I am even going next week.

[u/WorkerMotor9174]

Horrible horrible horrible end to an otherwise very back and forth game. The offense collapsed in the fourth quarter. Bad playcalling. JKS had his first genuinely bad game at Cal.

The only positive is it’s not an ACC game.

[u/Cal_858 → u/WorkerMotor9174]

The other negative is that this isn’t a conference game anymore

[u/smcstechtips → u/WorkerMotor9174]

JKS got injured

[u/lowes18]

If Cal is going to run a fuck it chuck it offense JKS needs to chuck it better.

Also that run game by UCLA is amazingly good. And Cal's run defense is amazingly bad.

[u/mayonkonijeti0876 → u/lowes18]

They didn't really do that for large portions of the game. They ran the ball a lot and had middling success. Taking out sacks and kneels they ran it 34 times for 141 yards at 4.1 YPC. The defense has a lot of issues and so does the offensive line

[u/ricepail → u/mayonkonijeti0876]

Also when JKS was chucking it today, it was mostly arm throws, he wasn't getting his full body behind it likely due to his apparent ankle injury.

Also last year, he threw a lot of picks in the first half of the season. But as he and the receivers got more accustomed to each other and the play calling, the interceptions went away. The picks today (especially the second one on the pass to Mini) might just be him not used to both all the new receivers as well as the new OC and play calling

[u/ImJLu → u/ricepail]

The first one was a crazy throw on the run that bounced off Strong's hands. I refuse to put that on him. The second was bad and/or a miscommunication (but that's still bad).

[u/rageb8err]

All the Tosh glazing this off-season did not deliver tonight.

[u/breakwater → u/rageb8err]

I heard he got on a plane.

(like 40 times from the commentary crew)

[u/GobiYumaMojave → u/breakwater]

the bit about him sleeping on a bench at the beach was a little unbelievable

[u/chebbys → u/GobiYumaMojave]

Dude didn't even need a pillow. His head is so square it fit the bench perfectly.

[u/Ashamed_Tooth_1011 → u/GobiYumaMojave]

In the suit!

[u/Zloggt]

Damn good hire, Bruins…

[u/Muffinnnnnnn]

This game was tied in the 4th quarter.

Also Western Michigan defeated Michigan tonight.

[u/aaaaaaaawwwwwwww]

WESTERN MICHIGAN

[u/hellajt]

Western Michigan was robbed

[u/Condom_Breaker256]

Nothing like beating your ex to get revenge for the unjust alimony payments...

I think.

[u/Document101]

At this point im just a closeted JMU fan

[u/aaaaaaaawwwwwwww → u/Document101]

Fuck Liberty

Wagner next week (fuck Russia)

Then we have a (optimistic) 50/50 late night game against San Diego State

[u/chris_hans → u/aaaaaaaawwwwwwww]

What does Russia have to do with Wagner?

[u/aaaaaaaawwwwwwww → u/chris_hans]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group?wprov=sfti1

Nothing actually just wanted to get a good fuck Russia in

[u/aaaaaaaawwwwwwww → u/chris_hans]

I'm sorry to tell you but Africa is not in good shape

[u/pasatroj → u/aaaaaaaawwwwwwww]

Liberty is a fake school convince me otherwise.

[u/by_yes_i_mean_no]

Good game to Cal. Think that fourth quarter could have gone differently if JKS didn't tweak/hurt himself with whatever happened.

Those Knight runs when everyone in the stadium knew that Madden Iamaleava wasn't going to be allowed to throw the ball were electric.

[u/ImJLu → u/by_yes_i_mean_no]

Is it really that unreasonable to ask for your QB to not get injured in week 1? For both of us, no less. What a dumb sport.

[u/by_yes_i_mean_no → u/ImJLu]

I was thinking about how dumb the sport was when I noticed the first half took two hours lol

[u/JDraks]

Michigan should take a look at Napier if UCLA wins a natty next year

[u/Character-Active2208 → u/JDraks]

Sunbelt Billy?

Yes, please do Michigan

[u/Electromotivation → u/Character-Active2208]

We are pumping him full of magic coach juice as we speak.

[u/BuckeyeForLife95]

We have to stop letting James Madison coaches come into the Big Ten. It's disrupting the balance around here!

[u/ASK_ABT_MY_USERNAME]

UCLA Indiana final the JMU bowl

[u/britishmetric144]

Hey, wouldn't it be nice if these two teams, both on the same coast of the United States, joined up in a conference together? It could have the name of the ocean they sit near, and the number of teams too? Hmmmmmmm.

[u/midwestbruin → u/britishmetric144]

Well, at least Boise State played Oregon in a game that featured one Pac-whatever team, so that didn't change. (Oh, wait...)

[u/bimm3ric]

Hang on to that Calimoney Cal, looks like you need it more then us.

[u/t_ran_asuarus_rex → u/bimm3ric]

living your best life is the best revenge

[u/majorgeneralporter]

The Calgorithm could not defeat The Birthplace of The Internet

[u/InterKOT]

Cal's defense was horrible tonight. It was expected to be unproven, and they disappointed. I'm hoping Tosh can build off of this for future games.

Offense started clicking until that mistimed snap. Even the running game looked good in the 2nd half. Mohammed is the real deal. Oline is horrible, but I wonder how much of it was UCLA Dline... We will find out next week.

Special teams was fine, nothing crazy.

JKS showed some great moves, but the ankle is a concern. The INTs are concerning, he will learn from this and get better. Not ready to call it a sophomore slump. Hopefully the connection within the receivers gets better.

Tosh was fine, definitely an improvement in the second half again until the mistimed snap. I think he will do just fine. His recruiting must come in handy when it comes to building up the defense and Oline next year. This year it's on the players to grow.

We play UCLA next year, I think we will do much better. They are losing many impact players. They will have a great season. I owe UCLA an apology, I wasn't familiar with your game (keep the calimony coming though).

Night

[u/versusChou → u/InterKOT]

Our DTs are meh. Not like egregiously bad, but not expected to be a strength. Our EDGEs are pretty good though.

[u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo]

Couldn't be happier with this.

• I love our RB rotation of Knight as the main guy with Woods and Thomas mixing in.
• We actually had a pass rush.
• The OL was "somewhat acceptable" instead of being "inoperable."
• I enjoyed seeing Omosigho flying around making tackles.

I don't want to get too ahead of myself, but 4-0 going into that Oregon game making it a ranked matchup is a realistic possibility.

[u/Electromotivation → u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo]

Everybody looked great and I’m happy for everyone….but Ellis got knocked out. I hope he is OK.

So yall were missing an impact player for part of the game, too. Anyways, I’m hoping some more JMU players end up on the all Big Ten team by the end of the year!

[u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo → u/Electromotivation]

Seeing him immediately flat on his back motionless was scary. Hope he's alright. I don't expect to see that trick play again this year. Thanks!

[u/vinn3]

KNIGHT KNIGHT

[u/Ordinary-Wafer-8919]

I can't believe we're back from the trenches.

[u/tragicallyohio]

It is incredibly weird that this wasn't an early season PAC 10 game.

[u/zigggzzz]

it has been so long since i've seen competent coaching.

[u/bbaIla]

I'm not gonna get over my skis yet, but man, this is hope I feel, and I like it.

[u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

Maybe a new coach, four stars, and transfers could save them. Alas, a Wilcoxesque lategame collapse with the bottom falling out was just what the doctor ordered. This was a risky hatewatch and I definitely got scared for a bit, but damn, they're still gonna do Cal things. I'm gonna be at the next UCLA game against SDSU, which will be my first game at the Rose Bowl since the epic Penn State one, so I'm pretty excited. Normally I like to keep the intrastate rivalries semi-alive, but after tonight I'll see if I can find something powder blue in my closet. Really nice job Bruins, that final 10 mins was almost orgasmic. Cal losing by 21 in a game that was tied in the fourth is just... it's TypiCAL, ain't it?

[u/TinderForMidgets → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

Cal had so much hype in the offseason that they'd change lol.

[u/PunishedLeBoymoder → u/TinderForMidgets]

It's honestly a blessing to have them as rivals. So much unearned confidence and so much schadenfreude. You couldn't ask for a better team to hate

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Sorry UC🅱️, we're The™ University of California this year.

[u/what_user_name]

this game was tied with like 7 minutes left

[u/DrFog3402]

This the new culture? I’m not a fan. Too many years of this

[u/TommyFX → u/DrFog3402]

I think an issue that Cal is going to have this season is that you hired a first time HC and then allowed him to hire first time offensive and defensive coordinators.

Good luck the rest of the way!

[u/smartkeg → u/DrFog3402]

ucla might be the best team we face all season and its week 1 of a new regime. I think we'll turn it around

[u/OhHeyItsBrock]

Ummm is Mohammad fucking human? Dude is insane.

[u/yloc88 → u/OhHeyItsBrock]

He no Wayne knight, but impressive in his own right.

[u/SaltyLonghorn]

In a sport where many teams are all new rosters season to season, Cal managed to play the same way they have forever.

[u/Terror-Byte-523]

And you know what, we are taking our rightful academic position back too.

[u/fairebelle → u/Terror-Byte-523]

YEAH

[u/Jonjon428]

This was close until the 4th

[u/CMCdaGoat]

To all the kaL fans who showed up to the Stanford game and mocked our performance against #7 Miami:

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[u/chebbys]

Absolutely devastated to report that Cal is not back 

[u/PunishedLeBoymoder → u/chebbys]

That final ten minutes had three seperate times I laughed some of the hardest I ever have in my life

[u/urmomisbae]

ucla has looked the best they have in a while. quite sloppy defensively especially rushing wise but really pulled away in the 4th quarter shoutout to wayne knight

[u/theparismoon]

BRUIN BULLIES

[u/nstutzman28]

So the Calimony is really just a buy-game for an easy W on the schedule

[u/QueefSniffin]

Fuck Michigan?

[u/OpaqueNightmare]

Nasty fourth quarter. That was a very close and very evenly matched game and Cal just laid an absolute egg at the end. Sadly most people slept through this and are going to wake up thinking Cal wasn’t competitive at all.

[u/k_dubious]

Jaron Keawe Turndaballovatele

[u/fancyjaguar]

Me thinking we can beat SC this year doesn’t seem too crazy right now.

[u/yloc88 → u/fancyjaguar]

We will beat SC. Lincoln Riley is getting canned before UCLA brings the victory bell back to Westwood. .

[u/dreggers]

JKS fell apart from injury and pressure, much like the Hawaii bowl game

[u/Particular-Way-3805]

GG

[u/hidey_ho_nedflanders]

Cal's run D was nonexistent

[u/yloc88 → u/hidey_ho_nedflanders]

They tried, but UCLAs run game was just that much better. That was the run game that took JMU to the CFP last season, losing to Oregon.