There's another underrated part of this collapse: even after those two awful losses, Cal had recovered late in the season to beat a couple of ranked teams and seemingly salvage things: Arizona and Stanford back to back. Suddenly we sat at 8-3 and things were looking up again!
But then we went and lost in a baffling blowout at Washington and sleepwalked through a loss to Utah in the Poinsettia Bowl. That's what really made it feel like things were over.
Yeah, wins against Arizona and Stanford were some of the best games we'll always remember. I had forgotten we had 8 wins that season. It could have been 10.
But right now even 8 wins sound like an awfully good season
The infamous UW game where we kicked off to start both halves. That was not a good UW team and they completely destroyed us.
I was at the Poinsettia Bowl and it was such a complete let down. We had a fast start and just faded in the second half and couldnтАЩt score or move the ball.
That 42-3 loss, followed by the 30-3 loss to USC broke Tedford and our program.
There's another underrated part of this collapse: even after those two awful losses, Cal had recovered late in the season to beat a couple of ranked teams and seemingly salvage things: Arizona and Stanford back to back. Suddenly we sat at 8-3 and things were looking up again!
But then we went and lost in a baffling blowout at Washington and sleepwalked through a loss to Utah in the Poinsettia Bowl. That's what really made it feel like things were over.
Yeah, wins against Arizona and Stanford were some of the best games we'll always remember. I had forgotten we had 8 wins that season. It could have been 10.
But right now even 8 wins sound like an awfully good season
The infamous UW game where we kicked off to start both halves. That was not a good UW team and they completely destroyed us.
I was at the Poinsettia Bowl and it was such a complete let down. We had a fast start and just faded in the second half and couldnтАЩt score or move the ball.
Ed Dickson just scored another TD 14 years later.
And Tedford is lining up for another FG right before halftime.