Cal Football Defensive Film Review: Defending Spread Runs

TCU stresses a defense in plenty of ways, and Cal eventually succumbed to the spread in Fort Worth

As mentioned in yesterday’s column, TCU ran off five touchdowns, one field goal attempt, and one game-clinching drive in their final nine possessions, in a clinic of spread offense execution. One of my goals from yesterday:

I’m going to try to get at answering why Cal was so unsuccessful slowing down TCU after the first four drives.

Well, there are lots o…