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SGBear's avatar

I, for one, hella enjoy the memes created for Golden Nuggets. The age of AI has made memes all too easy to create - but it can't recreate our expansive knowledge of nerdy things with a tart wit all wrapped up in a shitty Photoshop bow that is now the Calgorithm signature.

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OldSoCalBear's avatar

Nothing against the Raiders, but if the black bear thing works out, it’s only a matter of time before we have a blackout game with black unis

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ImTheGuy's avatar

The problem is that OSKI is a GOLDEN bear which is a BROWN bear not a black bear. We sounds like fools but if raiders fans become CAL fans I’ll be fully supportive without hesitation. But seems very forced and quite odd.

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mrjpark's avatar

If we do gold outs, it can be like the event horizon around a black hole?

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OldSoCalBear's avatar

When we had a live mascot, wasn’t it a black bear (species wise at least)? Can’t imagine that they’d import a brown bear.

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ImTheGuy's avatar

That’s true. We’ve made many mistakes in the past, and now, possibly the future as well 😂

I bet the majority of current CAL students don’t know golden bears are brown/grizzly bears…all in all, who cares, right? Just win baby! 😆

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Geoff Wahl's avatar

Actually, a golden bear is a cinnamon bear which is a young black bear. They are a good looking GOLDEN BEAR. As they age their fur turns black.

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OldSoCalBear's avatar

There are plenty of light brown fully grown black bears in my neighborhood - my avatar for example, picture taken a few years ago in my back yard.

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justbearly's avatar

OK, OK, I will buy a new gold cap for the Minnesota game. But that's it. Gold out indeed. Go Bears!

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sycasey's avatar

Boston College and Virginia Tech are on the Forbes list.

54 BC

81 Va Tech

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Macarolina's avatar

Love all the JKS shout-outs. Super puzzled at the choice of Gold vs Blue for a game against the Golden Gophers...

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Justbear's avatar

We'll show them who's the true Golden one.

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TezCalipoca's avatar

I'll repost this again in a game thread, but just for fun, here is some ranking stuff.

AP and Coaches Poll No Votes

ESPN’s Power Index has Cal ranked: 60

Projected Win-Loss 7.0- 5.1

ESPN’s SP+ (predictive rating) 53 overall/ Offense 62/ Defense 45

Massey 41

Sagarin 57

Colley’s Bias Free college rankings #6 - tied with 50 other schools with 1 win

** (the best!) -but it’s not interconnected yet

and doesn’t really make sense until around 1st week of conference play.

However!! - Colley’s currently has stanfurd dead fricken last at #178 in college football.

Behind winless HBCU’s and stacks of FCS programs.

Composite rankings (43 rankings) 61 - UP 6 spots

Worst -DeSemoni 92

Best - Laz Index 33 (tied with Minnesota)

Minnesota 32 overall ranking

SDSU 107

Furd 105

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TezCalipoca's avatar

Oops, formatting got messed up. I'll fix some other time

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ImTheGuy's avatar

Probably has to do with the 7:30pm nighttime kickoff and also how dark blue can look like empty seats for a TV audience. But, yeah, gold is a bad choice especially for this game and visitor and also bc most people don’t own gold/yellow shirts and especially not sweatshirts and it’s a night game. All in all, we should be in white or navy IMO

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Ben's avatar

If you go with White, you get the Auburn game last year where the stadium is in white and the away team is too. The synergy between Gold Jersey/Gold shirts in the stands is nice! And it'll look good! And you have plenty of time to find gold something!

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sycasey's avatar

This is the reason indeed. Cal wears a very dark blue, but you want something that pops at night. Gold it is.

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Sally's avatar

You know Minnesota is gold, too???

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Ben's avatar

Fully aware! But we're going to show them why our gold is better. if Cal chooses gold jerseys, which the announcement seems to suggest, they'll have to wear white jerseys. and if they're fans wear gold they blend in with the crowd!

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ImTheGuy's avatar

But will CAL fans actually execute a GOLD OUT? Hasn’t worked previously and doubt it will this time but I hope I’m wrong. I’ll be in gold for sure!

The WHITE OUTs or whatever they call it at Penn St are a hit regardless of the visitors being in white. It’s iconic and successful bc everyone can participate without paying for overpriced shirts with dumb tariffs

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napabear's avatar

Cal fans are pretty lame in my opinion as far as going for a Gold Out. Maybe if they keep doing it, more people will eventually get on board? It’s difficult to get everyone on board. Even the fanatical Nebraska fans don’t all wear red, and the Sea of Red has been the thing every game forever

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Ben's avatar

It starts with peer pressuring friends and readers into buying gold shirts!

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