Using last week as my guide, Washington played a Sun Belt conference team and manhandled them. Cal faced an FCS team in Sac State that struggled in its first two games and could not put the Hornets away. So I say advantage big time to the Huskies. But if I use the 2018 season as my template, Cal had a 3-game stretch that year where they stunk up the field in three straight losses to Oregon, Arizona and UCLA. The 37-7 loss to UCLA at home might have been the all-time stinker to a lousy Chip Kelly team. Somehow, Wilcox rallied the troops and beat Washington two weeks later. That same Washington team went on a tear after the Cal loss, winning four straight and beating two Top 25 teams along the way. So let's see if Wilcox has any juju powder to sprinkle over Husky field.
Looking forward to the game. The Husky arsenal appears to have a lot of weapons. Can the Cal backs perform better than the UW backs? Can our wide receivers maintain or expand their recent proclivity in catching the deep ball? Can we pressure the QB giving our secondary an easier task? All will be revealed on Saturday.
Thanks for enduring the pompous and painful fan base of the Fuskies to do this post. I still believe anything at all can happen in this game. A total crap shoot for both teams. Fusky fans always think they are national title contenders, cough cough. At least us Bear fans are more sober in our estimations, even though we've beaten them repeatedly under Wilcox.
Seems that Chris' review of Washington could be said to be the same as for Cal -- very good talent not close to being realized. Though perhaps we don't have very good talent at a few of our DB positions, plus backups elsewhere in our defense. Tough to predict which team or teams will break out of that situation.
Cal has been fortunate in the past in Washington not being able to utilize their apparent talent, though perhaps like Cal I don't know how deep it is across the board at all positions . I fear the situation may change this Saturday though I really hope not. Coming back from 1 - 3 would be tough.
On the UW Dawg Pound the folks are saying that there is no way that they can lose 3 in a row to Cal. Cal! Well, yes they can.
Using last week as my guide, Washington played a Sun Belt conference team and manhandled them. Cal faced an FCS team in Sac State that struggled in its first two games and could not put the Hornets away. So I say advantage big time to the Huskies. But if I use the 2018 season as my template, Cal had a 3-game stretch that year where they stunk up the field in three straight losses to Oregon, Arizona and UCLA. The 37-7 loss to UCLA at home might have been the all-time stinker to a lousy Chip Kelly team. Somehow, Wilcox rallied the troops and beat Washington two weeks later. That same Washington team went on a tear after the Cal loss, winning four straight and beating two Top 25 teams along the way. So let's see if Wilcox has any juju powder to sprinkle over Husky field.
Looking forward to the game. The Husky arsenal appears to have a lot of weapons. Can the Cal backs perform better than the UW backs? Can our wide receivers maintain or expand their recent proclivity in catching the deep ball? Can we pressure the QB giving our secondary an easier task? All will be revealed on Saturday.
Thanks for enduring the pompous and painful fan base of the Fuskies to do this post. I still believe anything at all can happen in this game. A total crap shoot for both teams. Fusky fans always think they are national title contenders, cough cough. At least us Bear fans are more sober in our estimations, even though we've beaten them repeatedly under Wilcox.
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Seems that Chris' review of Washington could be said to be the same as for Cal -- very good talent not close to being realized. Though perhaps we don't have very good talent at a few of our DB positions, plus backups elsewhere in our defense. Tough to predict which team or teams will break out of that situation.
Cal has been fortunate in the past in Washington not being able to utilize their apparent talent, though perhaps like Cal I don't know how deep it is across the board at all positions . I fear the situation may change this Saturday though I really hope not. Coming back from 1 - 3 would be tough.
Per comments below I remember seeing Bigelow's runs, years ago, agains Ohio St on YouTube. Still there. First TD is the spin move.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVIkMDJIGOo