Cal will be favored the rest of the way, excluding the SMU game. Cal should (key word: should) win the next 5 games, but I have also lost faith in the program doing so and wouldn't be surprised if Cal dropped another 1-2 winnable games. NC State opened as 7.5-point underdogs, and they are probably one of the tougher games remaining. Oregon State lost a lot of talent when the Pac-12 fell apart (and also lost their coach), but they're always tough regardless of their record. Wake Forest is just straight-up bad, which is why I predicted a loss to them in our preseason predictions. Syracuse is one-dimensional, and I think Cal's secondary shuts down Kyle McCord. Then there's the Big Game, and anything can happen in a rivalry game. Even though Stanford is also straight-up bad, they hung around a vastly superior Clemson team for longer than they should have, so I am not taking that one for granted either. Cal is in a weaker conference, and still going to somehow struggle to find that 6th win for bowl eligibility.
I still think Cal was the better team than Pitt on Saturday, and that Cal lost that game more than Pitt won it.
Then that’s also on Wilcox, for hiring Spavital in the first place.
Interested in getting your take on the program now after your prediction for the Pitt game.
Cal will be favored the rest of the way, excluding the SMU game. Cal should (key word: should) win the next 5 games, but I have also lost faith in the program doing so and wouldn't be surprised if Cal dropped another 1-2 winnable games. NC State opened as 7.5-point underdogs, and they are probably one of the tougher games remaining. Oregon State lost a lot of talent when the Pac-12 fell apart (and also lost their coach), but they're always tough regardless of their record. Wake Forest is just straight-up bad, which is why I predicted a loss to them in our preseason predictions. Syracuse is one-dimensional, and I think Cal's secondary shuts down Kyle McCord. Then there's the Big Game, and anything can happen in a rivalry game. Even though Stanford is also straight-up bad, they hung around a vastly superior Clemson team for longer than they should have, so I am not taking that one for granted either. Cal is in a weaker conference, and still going to somehow struggle to find that 6th win for bowl eligibility.
I still think Cal was the better team than Pitt on Saturday, and that Cal lost that game more than Pitt won it.
Dead on.