Cal opens ACC schedule next season at Boston College
Cal will open the 2025 conference season against a new face.
The ACC announced the opening conference opponent for the California Golden Bears. Cal will be playing Boston College to kickoff conference play and hopefully get off on a better foot than last year, when they went 2-6. Boston College went 7-6, 4-4 in ACC play, but was also a daunting 6-1 at home. It’ll be a tough early starting game for the Bears.
Cal will play eight ACC games this season. The Big Game heads to Stanford, and the Bears will take two more road trips to Louisville and Virginia Tech. Cal will host North Carolina, Duke, Virginia, and SMU. Aside from SMU and Stanford, Cal has six new conference opponents from last season, so they are working with a mostly blank slate to try and win this conference.
We already know Cal will start 2025 at Oregon State. The Bears also have a road trip to San Diego State, as well as home games with Minnesota and Texas Southern lined up.
The first five games are basically finalized (home games bolded):
August 30: at Oregon State
September 6: Texas Southern
September 13: Minnesota
September 20: at San Diego State
September 27: at Boston College
The full ACC schedule will be released on Monday at 3 PM Pacific, on the ACC Network and ESPN2.
The OG Golden Bears could again reasonably be 3-1 at the 1/3 point in the 2025 season, leading to wild speculation by wfc and others of a 9-3 or better season and an ACC championship in our 2nd year in the conference. Alas, we have all seen this movie before, and as my older and wiser brother (also a Cal grad) tells me every year "The Bears live to disappoint". Hope springs eternal for us Cal fans each spring and summer, so I'm praying that I won't be disappointed and devastated yet again come December 2025...
Happy to see that we've only got two September home games. So often in past odd numbered years we've had half our home schedule completed before October. I prefer seeing them spread out. Two a month would be nice.
Sincerely yours,
Mr. Picky picky picky