[Translate] The 2011 Bridgepoint (?) Holiday Bowl from San Diego started off as a defensive battle for both the California Golden Bears and The Texas Longhorns, and ended with the Texas Defense causing Texas to prevail 21 to 10. It’s a generally accepted view that you can’t win a game by turning the ball over more than the other team, and that observation...
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[Translate] By Anthony “Mini-Kiper” Carillo-Contributing Writer-Football Reporters Online 1) Robert Griffin III-Quarterback Baylor RG3 has been the most outstanding player this season by far. His team has had 6,810 total yards throughout this season, and Griffin has accounted for 4,653 of those yards, almost 68% of his team’s total. That...
[Translate] The Stanford Oregon Game was not for The Cardinal. The previously 4th ranked Stanford Cardinal lost to dropped four spots to 8th ranking in the AP Top 25 after being outran by the Oregon Ducks, 53 to 30 Saturday night. It was a disappointing game for Northern California football fans, even Cal fans, who wanted to see The Cardinal pull off a win against...
[Translate] UPDATE: Joe Paterno Dies – A Tribute This is a shocking development. Joe Paterno. JoePa. The Penn State Football heac coach, who, since 1966, has won more college football games than anyone else, was fired Wednesday. The decision came from the Penn State Board of Trustees to release Paterno, and University President Graham Spanier from their...
[Translate] Today, starting at 4PM PDT, we have Cal vs UCLA, then Stanford at USC at 5 PM and both are key Pac-12 battles of teams that really do have “storied histories” to mock that overused term for a moment. Cal comes to LA to play a rather injury-riddled UCLA team, with its coach Rick Neuheisel on a seat so hot, it would take an ice-cold screw driver...
[Translate] The college football rankings as reported in the Associated Press Top 25 are out, and contains some interesting news. First, Stanford, previously ranked number 7, moves up to number 6, and joins Boise State and Florida in rising by one spot. Alabama moved from two to three, Oklahoma remained at one, and Oregon divided ten spots to 13 from 3, after being...
[Translate] In college football rankings, Notre Dame Football gets a pass every year because of its “storied tradition” and that is not to make fun of the Notre Dame legacy, but to point out how well it serves the University. Last ywar, Notre Dame posted an 8 and 5 record, and won its second bowl game in three years, and first under new Head Coach Brian...
[Translate] Ok, let me get my bias out of the way before turning to College Football matters: I’m a Cal Alum who earned a Master of City and Regional Planning Degree and sat on The Cal Alumni Board and then the The Cal Alumni Awards Committee with Levi’s Chairman Bob Haas. I’m very pro-UC Berkeley, and could not be more totally pissed-off that the...
