Cal vs. UC L.A. football instareaction & grade the game: Bad debut for Bears & Musgrave in a 34–10 clobbering
Just meh, meh, and more meh.
Apparently I just stared at a mirror for three hours—because that was ugly.
The Golden Bears came out for an early-morning Sunday game on short notice and looked completely flat with poor execution on both sides of the ball. It ended up being a bloodbath with UC L.A winning 34–10.
And Chip Kelly has no idea how to wear a damn mask.
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Obviously I would have liked to see us play and execute better. However, this whole season is just one big mulligan so I am not too invested or upset at the results.
I am not shocked by the poor offense. It is a theme for Cal under Wilcox and I was never really impressed with Musgrave while he was in the NFL so I wasn’t excited about that hire at all. Even with that said, it was the first game of a very disjointed season so it is hard to really judge the offense because it is a new staff with limited reps and our first game of the season against UCLA on short notice and an early start time. Hopefully the offense can improve.
The defense however was a complete disappointment today We returned a lot of starters and experience and UCLA cut through them like a chainsaw., really no excuse for that at all. This isn’t a new UCLA coaching staff or new UCLA QB or offensive scheme so I am not sure why they struggled so much. Reminded me a lot of Cal/UCLA HC game a few seasons ago when we couldn’t stop UCLA at all.