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So happy for the win... doesn't quite make this a successful season, especially with the fact it's a little harder to consider Stanford a villain (after they helped us join them in the ACC), but in the end NO season is a success unless we beat Stanford. I really hope we beat UCLA although after their pasting of USC it's hard to be confident with that...especially with our defense.

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Nov 19Liked by Rick Chen

GO BEARS

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Nov 19Liked by Rick Chen

We gots da AXE!!

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Good story with the exception of mentioning how good the Oline played.

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BURN THE BOATS

BURN THE WOODS

BURN THE CITY!

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Coach Bloesch deserves to be mentioned a lot. He is our best coach. His coaching led to a terrific turnaround in our offensive line. Should be even better next year.

Love to listen to Mendoza. He's so smart. I think he will eventually be a politician.

Regarding as to where Cal should wind up being affiliated with in a new conference, I agree with the person who said, below, Cal will join teams from the Mountain West. I wrote a long comment as to which teams Cal should join and why. Those teams are Stanford, Oregon State, and WSU. I add to them, and why -- Las Vegas, San Diego St, Fresno St, Fresno St. and Hawaii.

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Let’s shock the world next week and trounce UCLA. The kids deserve a bowl game. An extra month of practice will be great for the team.

Grizz is a beast. Not very fast, but runs great routes, good hands, and leverages his body to his advantage well. Can’t teach 6’6”. Great potential.

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Any news on uluave?

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Driving down to LA next week. Haven’t made this trip in forever. Who’s got the tailgate?

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Nov 20·edited Nov 20

I had major FOMO sitting out the last Big Game on the Farm. So glad I was fortunate the football gods forgave me enough to get a make good yesterday. Not sure why the students started doing the tomahawk chant in the middle of the field. Really? It’s “We’ve got the axe!” and repeat. Simple and perfect. Do we need to put this in the orientation packet? Leave the tomahawk chant to FSU.

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Why did Ott take a knee at the end? Why not run it in and score?

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Battle of future ACC frequent flyers

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Rewatching today, fair number of dirty plays by Stanford’s D. Made beating them sweeter!

Minor quibble - why not take that offensive PI call in Q1 and push them out of Karty’s FG range? Instead he hit like a 46 yarder to make it 7-3…

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What is Fernando Mendoza’s Big Game record?

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In hindsight, if we keep jack Plummer and sturdivant were a 8 win team and that gives a very different type of optimism smh I still hope Sam comes back 🤷🏿‍♂️ Fernando has stabilized the offense but it hasn’t been all roses

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