$C looked good agains BYU, Cal will need to play exceptional ball to beat them. I think $C's players will be inspired to play and will likely want to show their new coach something. And Riley will likely be in the house, no?
Agreed, SC’s players will be motivated for this game, maybe more than any other this year. Not sure about the coaches but I doubt that matters. I expect a big SC win.
Bit of a tangent, but to those readers who said Riley would need time to get up and running: he already secured the commitment of a 5-star quarterback previously committed to him at Oklahoma.
Just the second-best player in the 2023 class. Nbd
The Pac 12 is going to be A LOT better next season. USC and Washington will get dramatically better just because they have competent coaching now. It will be fascinating to see how many talented transfers jump to those programs a la what happened with Mel Tucker at Michigan State this season. Oregon State is continually improving with Jonathan Smith. Colorado showed out in the last part of the season, and WSU looks like they didn't miss a beat with their interim and now new head coach. Utah is always going to be good with Whittingham, although there are rumors that he might retire if the Utes get to the Rose Bowl and win. Don't expect ASU or UCLA to drop off much, either. Where does that leave Cal? Better hope the Bears can pick up some non conference wins. Wait a minute, they are playing at Notre Dame in week 3. sigh.
I agree mostly, except for fucla which is loaded w/ seniors on both sides of the ball. Should DTR bolt, that is a lot of new players that need to get up to game speed. And who knows, perhaps some of their kids will flip to $C?
Mine, before looking.
1. Utah. Nice tuneup before the rematch.
2. Oregon. Again took care of business but didn't dominate.
3. UCLA. Three blowout wins since getting blown out by Utah. Offense is clicking.
4. Wazzu. We'll take all the apples, thank you.
5. Oregon State. Got in hole early in Civil War, started digging out too late.
6. ASU. Consistently beat bad teams. Only one-score game was the win in Seattle.
(gap)
7. Cal. WTF was that? Still better than anyone below them except maybe SC, and that will be settled this weekend.
8. SC. Put up decent fight against BYU for first close loss of the season. Cal has five.
9. Washington. Forty points to Wazzu? Really?
10. Colorado. Played their best road game of the year, still lost by 15.
11. Arizona. Hung with Devils for a while, then got yeeted as usual.
12. Furd. Lifeless and pathetic again. Average score over last four is 12-43.
Pretty close to our consensus!
I think Cal is ranked about right at 7th, in spite of Saturday's stinker.
I have no idea what to expect come Saturday.
$C looked good agains BYU, Cal will need to play exceptional ball to beat them. I think $C's players will be inspired to play and will likely want to show their new coach something. And Riley will likely be in the house, no?
Agreed, SC’s players will be motivated for this game, maybe more than any other this year. Not sure about the coaches but I doubt that matters. I expect a big SC win.
I mean, you can be as motivated as much as you want, but it still won't help all that much if you're schematically terrible.
Normally I'm optimistic but I got a feeling (bad) about this one. I want to be wrong.
Bit of a tangent, but to those readers who said Riley would need time to get up and running: he already secured the commitment of a 5-star quarterback previously committed to him at Oklahoma.
Just the second-best player in the 2023 class. Nbd
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The Pac 12 is going to be A LOT better next season. USC and Washington will get dramatically better just because they have competent coaching now. It will be fascinating to see how many talented transfers jump to those programs a la what happened with Mel Tucker at Michigan State this season. Oregon State is continually improving with Jonathan Smith. Colorado showed out in the last part of the season, and WSU looks like they didn't miss a beat with their interim and now new head coach. Utah is always going to be good with Whittingham, although there are rumors that he might retire if the Utes get to the Rose Bowl and win. Don't expect ASU or UCLA to drop off much, either. Where does that leave Cal? Better hope the Bears can pick up some non conference wins. Wait a minute, they are playing at Notre Dame in week 3. sigh.
I agree mostly, except for fucla which is loaded w/ seniors on both sides of the ball. Should DTR bolt, that is a lot of new players that need to get up to game speed. And who knows, perhaps some of their kids will flip to $C?