Cal Offensive Review: Final Drive Red Zone

27 yards and no dice.

Starting from the Oregon 27 Cal had all 3-time outs and a 1:35 left on the clock. The offense proceeded to run 4 running plays, 6 passing plays, all 6 of the time outs on either side, 1 Oregon penalty, and a spike.

There were clamors for using the run game more often, yet in retrospect, there wasn’t as much space for the run game to exist in a clock con…