Cal picked to finished 9th in the Pac-12 football preseason media poll
Expectations for the California Golden Bears are fairly low going into 2023.
Not much is expected of the California Golden Bears in 2023. Pac-12 Media Day is today, and Cal stands in 9th place among the media preseason pickers in the conference. The Bears fall slightly behind Washington State and Arizona, edge out ASU, with Colorado and Stanford bringing up the rear.
USC was picked to win the Pac-12 with 25 of the 36 first place votes. Washington was 2nd with four first place votes, Utah was 3rd (but managed more first place votes with 6). Oregon 4th (1 first place vote).
Write for California will have a more thorough write up of all that transpired at Pac-12 Media Day throughout this week and next.
Cal fans, what do you think of the preseason media ranking?
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Surely this should be, "Cal picked to finish 9th in the nation."
Good, will make it that much sweeter when we win the conference.
I don’t think you understand what’s going on here. As I’ve said before we have the best and deepest dline in conference and the best and deepest rb room.
Any other school in conference has that and we’d be saying “oh my look at them they’re gonna win the conference”
But not us. We wallow.
This team is special.
As for the o-line?
Look at the writing on the wall.
Jackson coupled with 5 rbs with starting experience and an avg YPC above 4.5, a massive platoon of slot type yac receivers, 2 massive blocking tight ends, and it’s abundantly clear to me what spavital is going to be doing.
Their will be 2 rbs at a minimum on the field at all times and I’m sorry but I’m extremely confident that whatever it is (t, wishbone, some crazy new scheme) that he runs it will be hard hard hard to stop and imho the defense will be excellent.
Every single unit on this team is better (both players and coaches) and we expect doom when we were within a single score in all but one game a season ago when their were more injuries, less talent, and awful coaching.
FL!