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PFF Review: This one weird problem might lose you a football game

Plus a look at Utah's broken offense!

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Nick Kranz
Oct 13, 2023
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(Programming note: Defensive film review for this week will be delayed due to lawyerly acts. Free preview: boy oh boy did every member of the Cal defense think that every play was gonna be a run that they were going to make the tackle on)

PFF began grading every Cal game back in 2014, during the height of the insane Sonny Dykes Bear Raid, and we all remember exactly how much Cal’s secondary struggled under DCs Andy Buh and Art Kaufman.

On Saturday, against OSU, Cal put up nearly the worst single-game coverage grade in the 10 years of PFF grading.

Not great, Bob. Let’s get this over with:

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