CAL?!
since you bring it up, i guess you mean the team that represents SC's one loss (last year) when they refer to SC's 33-1 record
the one that played closest to SC this year and had their only lost to SC until, hobbled by a PAC-10 conference more physically dominating (as proved for the last two years including tonight) than any other, to their final disappointment of a bowl (but not as disappointing as, say, all of the Big 12 appearances last year or aTm this year)
is it THAT Cal team that you're bringing up now, for no reason at all, after SC just put the final STFU on all of you who ever said boo to the PAC-10 in recent years and for years to come
lol, your homers on espn that speak english as a second language (after southern drawl or midwestern faux-canadian) won't even be popping off with that crap for a long, long time
I'm with you dwills, I am amazed at the piling on Cal since their game. First of all, if you took Michigan's two receivers away from them by injury, how would they have done against Texas? If you took Vince Young away from Texas, they lose to Michigan by 20. If you took Sonny Cumbie away from Tech, Cal would have routed them. Cal was rated properly prior to losing all their receivers, especially Lynam (sp?) and MacArthur. Those guys were big play guys, just like SC's receivers, and the Cal game turned when the perfect pass by Rodgers was missed by a freshman receiver, batted in the air for an interception, when Cal was driving for towards 21-10 lead and a likely rout. I guess the Big 12 people were just so overcome with shock, surprise and fuzzy feelings over finally having something to crow about in a bowl season that they got carried away with it. Hell, Washington State routed Texas last year, in the same circumstances, but there's little acknowledgement of that as well. Cal's program is just fine, and they are the best team that USC has played over the past two years, a schedule that includes Auburn, Michigan, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma, and Notre Dame (who all these people say is a bad program when Pac-10 teams beat them, but not when Notre Dame beats Tennessee and Michigan). The Bears are fine, and I'm glad they signed Tedford up for more years, to keep him there.