Are we going to pretend that we had a game so awful that we are forced to embrace the cringe of the disaster?
There are those who love the 2018 Cheez-Its Bowl. I am firmly in the camp that never wants to think about that game ever again and feels vaguely bad even seeing a box of Cheez-Its in the grocery store.
It was an expected win, and the first game in renovated Memorial. Hopes were so high going in, and then inexplicably Maynard doesn't start, and we look awful and lose. At the end was a pathetic failed trick play on a kickoff return (saved by a penalty), then a game-ending fumble.
For me it was the end of optimism, and the first time I felt sure that Tedford had peaked and was done.
Season-opening losses are the worst - you feel robbed of the entire season because you know "this is not the year". I felt worse after Nevada than after any of the five listed in the post.
So many it seems and this thread confirms it and more to list for sure. Gad, just reading them brings up the past angst. all be it in less intense way.
Every game played against Arizona this past decade. The hail mary in 2014, the crushing overtime loss in 2017. And the 2 pic-six's in 2018. We lost every game to them.
2018 UCLA I mean my god what a mess that game was from Kelley running down our throats like we didn't have a hint of linebackers and a defensive line to stop him. I'm not sure how often this occurs but us home fans were booing at halftime only being down 10-0, little did they know what was instore with Brandon Mcilwain throwing god knows like 3 picks in the second half to cement our loss in the ugliest was possible to a winless team. I warned my father that all we had to do was defend Kelley and Wilson and we didn't do either of those as I sat by myself in section WW row 3 until the very end where there seemed like only a few thousand left. That was one ugly day.
Are we going to pretend that we had a game so awful that we are forced to embrace the cringe of the disaster?
There are those who love the 2018 Cheez-Its Bowl. I am firmly in the camp that never wants to think about that game ever again and feels vaguely bad even seeing a box of Cheez-Its in the grocery store.
"Let's unearth some repressed memories" No.
Nevada 2012
It was an expected win, and the first game in renovated Memorial. Hopes were so high going in, and then inexplicably Maynard doesn't start, and we look awful and lose. At the end was a pathetic failed trick play on a kickoff return (saved by a penalty), then a game-ending fumble.
For me it was the end of optimism, and the first time I felt sure that Tedford had peaked and was done.
Season-opening losses are the worst - you feel robbed of the entire season because you know "this is not the year". I felt worse after Nevada than after any of the five listed in the post.
I think this is the most Cal post ever........thanks for nothing.......pain....ouch.......gastric distress......sads.......
I watched every open spring practice, and every open fall practice in Sonny’s first year, and I went on the record on several sites: One win, if that.
That team had almost nothing. Tedford had sucked the life out of Cal football, probably forever.
Last year, the Bears beat one team with a winning record, and many predict a championship game.
Please.
So many it seems and this thread confirms it and more to list for sure. Gad, just reading them brings up the past angst. all be it in less intense way.
Haven't read the article yet, but my first reaction nonetheless is...
TOO SOON
Every game played against Arizona this past decade. The hail mary in 2014, the crushing overtime loss in 2017. And the 2 pic-six's in 2018. We lost every game to them.
A lovely exercise in thinking "it can't get worse than this, right?" and then reading the next entry and remembering how it did indeed get worse.
2018 UCLA I mean my god what a mess that game was from Kelley running down our throats like we didn't have a hint of linebackers and a defensive line to stop him. I'm not sure how often this occurs but us home fans were booing at halftime only being down 10-0, little did they know what was instore with Brandon Mcilwain throwing god knows like 3 picks in the second half to cement our loss in the ugliest was possible to a winless team. I warned my father that all we had to do was defend Kelley and Wilson and we didn't do either of those as I sat by myself in section WW row 3 until the very end where there seemed like only a few thousand left. That was one ugly day.
Can you add the year to each of them entry headers? It was hard to orient for some of those.
2010 Big Game game deserves an honorable mention. That rain. That Andrew Luck stiff-arm. Brock Mansion ...
What year did Tedford get crushed at OSU? That should be on this list.
I would add the loss to Colorado in 2017 in Wilcox' first year. Montez carved us up.