Predict the 2024 Cal Football Season!
The inaugural ACC season is nearly upon us. How will the Bears fare against a new slate of opponents?
Hello again, Cal fans. It has been a while (over 6 months since I last published anything, actually). How has your offseason been? Are you ready to embark on a strange journey through our inaugural ACC season? The season opener is less than two weeks away, but before we watch the 2024 season unfold let’s engage in an exercise in wild speculation (after all, what’s the point of the offseason if not wild speculation?).
This is the fifteenth (!) edition of our Cal football preseason predictions. The task is simple: for each game on the schedule I need you to give me the chances that Cal will defeat the opponent. Do you think Cal has a 95% chance of beating UC Davis? Then enter 95 for that game. Think Cal has a 50% chance of beating Auburn? Give us a 50. And so on.
Here is a link to the predictions form. Get those predictions in by Sunday evening and I will post the results next week. Thanks for participating and Go Bears!
Our team goes where our O-Line takes us this year. It's all on the big uglies. We have three QB''s who can play. If we open holes for the run game and give our starting QB time to throw, we can play with anyone. It's all about our nasty and execution. Time for the big boys to step up and earn their respect.
Cal will experience sunshine pumping, wildly excessive enthusiasm after a couple of good wins, wildly excessive expectations of impending DOOOOOM after a couple games don't go as well, and the Bears will still be in contention for bowl eligibility on Veterans Day. Someone at some point will start a "Fire Wilcox!" campaign. Probably also call for at least one coordinator's early termination.
Parking will cost more than game tickets, and traffic will be an expensive impediment to attendance. Complaints about empty seats will coincidentally occur.
Oski will give up and leave earlier than Oski Disciple at some point.
Analysis will conclude that better depth and versatility, and a few more-star recruits and portal transfers would have helped. Hand-wringing about those leaving will ensue.
The Cal Band will proudly play on, and soldier on, undaunted. Regardless of what Ott to be the outcome.
All of these have been safe and accurate predictions for decades, btw, except the Ott references were for various other beasts and Beast-mode drives.