Weekly Writer Predictions: Cal v. Florida State Seminoles Football
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Welcome to our weekly predictions post from our writers. You’ll see what they expect the score to be and any wacky or rational predictions they expect to see in each game!
Christopher_h
Scoreline: Cal loses 14-31
I would love to be wrong, but I have a terrible feeling that after all the awful football I watched FSU play, they finally get their act together and show why they were a playoff-caliber team last year.
Berkelium97
Scoreline: Cal wins 21-16
This is a classic Cal trap game: the Bears are undefeated, FSU is a wounded laughingstock, the game is on primetime with a national audience, and an ESPN College Gameday trip to Berkeley is on the line if the Bears win. The Bears SHOULD win, but I have seen this script too many times before...
Rob Hwang
Scoreline: Cal wins 45-17
At this point I have to commit to the bit right? At some point were gonna have an offensive explosion, hopefully more than once, and why can’t it be this game? Ott returns for 180 yards and 2 TDs. Nyziah Hunter continues his touchdown prowess with another 2 TDs.
TD_24
Scoreline: Cal wins 17-10
Dammit the Bears are just going to find a way.
Former Twitter User Mpete91
Scoreline: Cal wins 35-30
The team locks it in early the defense puts DJU in hell.
Ruey Yen
Scoreline: Cal wins 24-13
Cal Football will sustain the momentum from the big win at Auburn, and the Takers will pad their turnover stats against San Diego State's freshman QB.
Piotr T Le
Scoreline: Cal wins 20-17
Both teams will score defensive touchdowns whether by fumble returns or pick-6s. Fernando will look good but the OL's fragility will limit the overall explosiveness of the offense.
The defense will bully DJU who will get lucky on a deepshot but otherwise will be quite limited.
Nick Kranz
Scoreline: Cal wins 24-16
My take right now is that Vegas and the advanced stats just haven't caught up to a team that is so much worse than their pre-season projections. Advanced analytics expects the Seminoles to regress to the mean, but I saw with my own two eyes each loss and I think there is something fundamentally broken about this FSU team. Meanwhile, A disruptive and opportunistic Cal defense is exactly the opposite of what FSU would want to see with a mistake prone offense. Cal plays and wins a game that in many ways reminds you of how they beat Auburn.
FSU 38 - Cal 13
Once it happens, I will publicly dismiss it as one that we were going to lose anyways and pretend that it doesn't bother me. And if I actually feel upset, I will bottle up that feeling and toss it into the void as tribute to my Dark Lord Oski, reminding myself that this is what the cold, lifeless touch of countless generations of Cal defeat feels like. It's all so familiar. Year after year, I watch the dead leaves drop and experience a rite that has followed this script so many times before. And yet this year in the ACC is different. The season can blossom again into an above-expectations 8-4 season. Spring is just around the corner, proverbially in the second half of the season. If FSU strikes us down, I will not be harmed and will emerge optimistic.
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And if, by providence, Cal does defeat Florida State. I will explode in a woke rainbow of Twitter Burner glory with double-middle fingers, screaming "I TOLD YOU MFers THIS WHOLE TIME WE WOULD WIN".
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You cannot hurt me, FSU. I have embraced the Cal Burner Life. I am Immortal.
I vote Nick Kranz for best sound prediction, and Ruey Yen for most likely to be living in the past.