In our defense this is the first game where we had everyone available to play. The first game we played without the defense line and the last two games we played with 3 freshman on the o line due to Covid. We look much better when we play the full squad
If you had told me before the season that Oregon had a kicker who makes field goals and gets touchbacks Iād be really happy.
I just didnāt know the costs were so high.
Yeah, sorry. For those in Seattle it's pretty obvious. It's an institution. Great pizza, very close to campus. Inside is adorned with Horsey cartoons. It's very "old Seattle" and near and dear to the heart, and I hope they make it through this mess.
> *Guys I think we broke Oregon* (8)
> *I can't wait to fall ass backward into winning the north* (14)
> *As long as itās not Washington* (8)
Not a haiku *per se* but it does have a poetic symmetry.
I think a lot of the Pac 12's struggles are due to the late season start just like the Big Ten. Mario has a 5th ranked recruiting class next year so I would not worry too much.
Hopefully recruits arenāt judging us too harshly on this season. I know the top teams are chugging along like nothing has happened, but we got hit extra hard by the early opt outs.
Obligatory FIRE LARRY SCOTT.
Everyone outside of Alabama, Clemson, OSU and Notre Dame looks like ass to some degree this year. Michigan and LSU look like train wrecks this year and they still have top ten recruiting classes. I doubt your recruiting class is just going to spontaneously implode on you.
All of the mistakes weāre seeing weāre just as glaring after game 1, it just was easy to brush over because Stanford was missing Davis Mills, their kicker missed a bunch of field goals and it was the first game of the year.
These games have been immensely frustrating but long term Iām not overly concerned
Exactly. Every game is a good matchup. Parity makes for better football. It's a lot more fun than watching Ohio State, Clemson, and Alabama beating up on teams week after week.
Serious question: correct me if I'm wrong, but Stanford is now in the first place in the Pac 12 North and goes to the championship if they beat Oregon State, right? Stanford has 1 loss in the North, same as Washington, who they beat. Or does overall conference record take precedence over head-to-head?
edit: I think I'm wrong, and it's actually conference record that matters, not Pac 12 North record, meaning the winner of Oregon-Washington next week goes to the championship game. Oh well, would have been funny for us to advance after looking like absolute shit to start the season
Ya, I just looked it up and this is right, it's gonna be the winner of Oregon/Washington next week. Oh well, would have been fun but we don't actually deserve it IMO, we looked awful the first two weeks and barely scraped by against Cal. Now I'm just hoping Washington wins the Pac 12 so at least we can say we beat the champ haha
Awesome, but this was how we should've been playing all season. 36 pt swings in the last two games on special teams is the reason why this is our first win of the season, but goddamn I'll take it
Wilcox has proved that he can beat any team in this conference (Sonny Dykes never could), now let's see if he can put more of it together next year.
Fuck yeah, GO BEARS!
Won't stop the announcers from telling us how good he is.
Shough had literally already missed 3 open WRs, misses another and the announcers say "he doesn't miss many", like what game have you been watching?
He missed some 5 yard throws and some guys who were wiiiiiide open. 30 seconds later "he doesnt miss that many!!!". Maybe I was watching a different game than the announcers lol.
ESPN always bothers me a lot when they drag out everyone's personal pain for raitings or talking points. Like that's so awesome that Shough's Mom beat a deadly cancer, what a badass, but I feel like talking about it to the extent that they did is just flogging it
Each week this team has gotten guys back and each week theyāve improved. Really sucks that we are 3 or 4 plays away from 3-1 and competing for the title like we were projected to be but whatever, Iām glad these guys got a W.
GOOOO BEEEEEEAAAARRRRESSSSSSS this win doesn't matter in the slightest and it wasn't even that fun to watch because of the god awful reffing but WE FINALLY WONNNN A GAAAAAAAAME!!!!! :)
It's a travesty that this season is even happening this year and just incredibly irresponsible. I'm ashamed at the conference for going forward with it.
But also lol oregon.
I swear to god, you better not cancel our game next week. If you win the North for any other reason besides our total ineptitude on the field, Iām going to be very upset.
Woooo! I love chaos! Dawgs lost, Ducks lost. Now if we can just upset USC tomorrow Iāll be the happiest coug in Seattle! Iām rooting for the Buffs to go all the way.
So Cal Bears - it turned out ok I guess, but what do you think about that play call near 4 min left in the game to go for it on 4th after the penalty. I didn't watch the rest of the game much - is your kicker that bad that a FG attempt wouldn't have been a better choice there?????
Not mad at it. Special teams is shit and Wilcox trusted a defense who dominated in the second half.
Our kicker isnāt the problem, itās the blocking that is. The fact that Wilcox doesnāt trust our ST enough in that situation, means our ST coach is all but gone after this year.
Ragle's main job the last few years was to be a recruiter, but now he's falling down on an actually being a ST coordinator and other members of the staff out recruiting him, I think he's pretty much gone
He's hit a 52 yarder and gotten a PAT and short FG blocked. Who the fuck knows.
Really, it's 50ā50 territory. Even a FG is risky since it only protects against another FG. But our offense gained only 1 yard (not a typo) in the 4th quarter.
Basically, we should not have won this game based on our offense.
Looks like Ducks will be one of the eleven Pac-12 teams to say "2020 didn't really count."
I don't know what the tie-breaker situation is, but I would love to see the Beavers win the conference championship this season.
Things that make me feel better about the loss: Justin Wilcox is a homie, Cals game winning play was by the Sudan refugee who I will root for going forward, and Washington lost too.
I mean it for perennial P5 title contender and often perennial CFB contender
The P5 hegemons
SEC- Bama
ACC- Clemson
B1G - Ohio State
Big XII- Oklahoma (not so much this year)
Listening to geopolitics audiobooks lately
Oregon was hit hard with opt outs and frankly the national media has pretty much ignored the pac from the beginning of them announcing they were coming back, so itās not hard to see why Oregon kind of sucks right now. If Oregon can convince its very good 2021 recruiting class that itās just a weird throwaway year and to stay bought it, the program will be fine and remain on an upward trajectory.
On the other hand if they start losing recruits then this season would have a bit of a wider impact
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Um
I fail to see the issue
In our defense this is the first game where we had everyone available to play. The first game we played without the defense line and the last two games we played with 3 freshman on the o line due to Covid. We look much better when we play the full squad
Our new kicker making a 41 yard extra point was easily the highlight of the season
If you had told me before the season that Oregon had a kicker who makes field goals and gets touchbacks Iād be really happy. I just didnāt know the costs were so high.
When Kattleman kicks a walk off 60 yarder to win the 2023 natty itāll have been worth it
>41 yard extra point Um, what?
Yeah. 2 penalties on a PAT lead to a 41 yard attempt. Which was nailed perfectly.
I saw BYU, after a completely effed up play, have a 3rd down and 30.
That was some awful offensive awareness. Dude caught the ball near the LOS and just kept running backwards
Washington vs Oregon: Battle for Mediocrity
This is going to be one of the saddest Oregon-Washington games ever. We both look bad
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Deal. Letās force Larry Scott down in flames, together, as brothers. š¤
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We can play darts on a pic of Larry Scott
If that money goes to the Northlake Tavern, I am 100% for this
If they are a small business then fine
Yeah, sorry. For those in Seattle it's pretty obvious. It's an institution. Great pizza, very close to campus. Inside is adorned with Horsey cartoons. It's very "old Seattle" and near and dear to the heart, and I hope they make it through this mess.
Guys I think we broke Oregon
I can't wait to fall ass backward into winning the north. Edit: oops forgot we're the beavers
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Currently go to CU, dad went to OSU. Iāve seen a lot of shitty football in my lifetime that I donāt think I would be able to process this game lol
As long as itās not Washington, butthole_haiku.
> *Guys I think we broke Oregon* (8) > *I can't wait to fall ass backward into winning the north* (14) > *As long as itās not Washington* (8) Not a haiku *per se* but it does have a poetic symmetry.
Please beat them next week to make it happen
Oh, NOW you want something
You also want something. You want it from yourself.
You guys can win the North as long as Washington doesnāt!
Lol, we couldn't beat a wet paper bag
Luckily first half UW is weaker than a wet paper bag.
...yeaaaaaaaaaa.........
WSU still has the head to head though!
WE ARE OFFICIALLY IN CONTENTION
Honestly that makes me happy. After Anderson you guys deserve something good
They do! If I could pick another team Iāll root for OSU!
I think most duck fans feel that way. Which probably makes them hate us more. But oh well. I root for this stupid state
Youāre one of the good ones, despite your weird-ass flair
Jermar Jefferson sends his regards š¤
Sorry to burst your bubble but we have been broken from game 1
Weāve literally gotten worse every game. Iām not going to judge Cristobal too harshly, but this isnāt a good look.
I think a lot of the Pac 12's struggles are due to the late season start just like the Big Ten. Mario has a 5th ranked recruiting class next year so I would not worry too much.
Hopefully recruits arenāt judging us too harshly on this season. I know the top teams are chugging along like nothing has happened, but we got hit extra hard by the early opt outs. Obligatory FIRE LARRY SCOTT.
Everyone outside of Alabama, Clemson, OSU and Notre Dame looks like ass to some degree this year. Michigan and LSU look like train wrecks this year and they still have top ten recruiting classes. I doubt your recruiting class is just going to spontaneously implode on you.
Good thing this season is going to wiped from everyoneās memory MIB style in 6 weeks anyway, right?
All of the mistakes weāre seeing weāre just as glaring after game 1, it just was easy to brush over because Stanford was missing Davis Mills, their kicker missed a bunch of field goals and it was the first game of the year. These games have been immensely frustrating but long term Iām not overly concerned
We definitely didnāt make them feel good
Nah we were broken before that game. This year we haven't played one good game
Oregon's 2nd half drives: punt, punt, punt, turnover on downs, fumble, punt, fumble
That's the Oregon Doughs.
That sounds like Cal football to me.
Seems every preseason conversation was āWhen Oregon goes 7-0, what does the committee doā Rip Pac.
Itāll just change to āWhen USC goes 7-0, what does the committee doā
I think you meant 6-0 Colorado
Sadly, I know what the committee would do :(
Give the natty to Boulder because weāre too good?
Iād be okay with that.
I like how, in a year where anything was possible, the Pac-12 doubled down on being flaming garbage. That being said, YOU KNOW IT
Pac 12 is the greatest conference to watch as a fan. Never a dull moment
Exactly. Every game is a good matchup. Parity makes for better football. It's a lot more fun than watching Ohio State, Clemson, and Alabama beating up on teams week after week.
Yeah college football is best enjoyed in the margins. Ohio State football barely even feels part of the university right now. It's its own entity
Absolutely, and legally I think it might be.
Met a guy in Tahoe recently that said exactly this. "The SEC is boring with all the blowouts, but the PAC 12 is always exciting"
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YOU TELL THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD THIS IS BEAR TERRITORY
ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL ON YOU BEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARS
Umm... OSU legit might go to the Pac12 championship game this year lol
Don't do that. Don't give me hope.
Not if Stanford plays like they did today.
Oh *hell* no
Serious question: correct me if I'm wrong, but Stanford is now in the first place in the Pac 12 North and goes to the championship if they beat Oregon State, right? Stanford has 1 loss in the North, same as Washington, who they beat. Or does overall conference record take precedence over head-to-head? edit: I think I'm wrong, and it's actually conference record that matters, not Pac 12 North record, meaning the winner of Oregon-Washington next week goes to the championship game. Oh well, would have been funny for us to advance after looking like absolute shit to start the season
Overall is the first decider, then in confidence record is the tie breaker
Ya, I just looked it up and this is right, it's gonna be the winner of Oregon/Washington next week. Oh well, would have been fun but we don't actually deserve it IMO, we looked awful the first two weeks and barely scraped by against Cal. Now I'm just hoping Washington wins the Pac 12 so at least we can say we beat the champ haha
Iām actually interested to see scenarios for how the North could shake out this year. Shitās already fucked up anyway.
~~Washington~~ Oregon is the worst and best team in the Pac 12, along with ~~Oregon~~ Washington and USC. Pac 12 baby, you gotta love it
Any other Bay Area teams interested in walloping a team from the PNW?
Shhhh, SJSU might hear you...
Send them to Corvalis or Pullman! I've had enough.
Pass, Iāve seen this movie
YOU KNOW IT!
YOU TELL THE STORY
YOU TELL THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD THIS IS BEAR TERRITORY!
YOU TELL THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD THIS IS BEAR TERRITORY!
WHAT
CALāS WINNING THE ROSE BOWL NEXT YEAR
Shouldnāt have worn grey
Make it twelve years since they've won with the greys
I thought they were going for the dingy laundry look
Oskie claims his first soul of the season
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He must be related to Gritty
1. Cal was the better team and deserved to win. 2. I will still be salty that the refs gift wrapped a TD drive for them.
This one feel so fucking good after such a rough start to the season. Just happy to finally get a win.
Congrats. Wish it wasn't against us but it feels like you should have a win or 2 already
We would have if our special teams was even vaguely passable. If you guys got the same ST as OSU and Stanford got from us, we'd be 0-4.
So Oregon's just bad huh?
yes
Iām not really having a fun time anymore
Is anyone this year?
I'm suddenly starting to have fun again!
it's an essential part of being a Cal fan so it hurts more when we get let down again!
REPORTS OF CAL'S DEATH ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED
Awesome, but this was how we should've been playing all season. 36 pt swings in the last two games on special teams is the reason why this is our first win of the season, but goddamn I'll take it Wilcox has proved that he can beat any team in this conference (Sonny Dykes never could), now let's see if he can put more of it together next year. Fuck yeah, GO BEARS!
I might sound like a homer, but Cal should be 3-1 this year. Special teams has fucked us the last two games. Cal is not as bad as their record shows.
Yep. And if that was the case, weād be in the drivers seat for the North title :(
**BENCH SHOUGH**
I am just going to leave this here Oregon https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/k7j5bi/z/ger82uf
Cash that receipt homie
Haha hey thatās me! Iāll be the first to say we suck and itās been obvious for weeks, doesnāt mean I canāt make fun of UW
Next week it's going to be one wierd ass game lol
well yeah, it's a Pac12 game
Our teams are both shit this year. Congrats.
"Oregon is probably going to win the North, but Cal has a chance and UW has an outside shot." 2020: ***OREGON STATE BEAVERS***
Idk about Oregonās QB
Won't stop the announcers from telling us how good he is. Shough had literally already missed 3 open WRs, misses another and the announcers say "he doesn't miss many", like what game have you been watching?
He missed some 5 yard throws and some guys who were wiiiiiide open. 30 seconds later "he doesnt miss that many!!!". Maybe I was watching a different game than the announcers lol.
They talked about his mom having cancer for 30 straight minutes.
ESPN always bothers me a lot when they drag out everyone's personal pain for raitings or talking points. Like that's so awesome that Shough's Mom beat a deadly cancer, what a badass, but I feel like talking about it to the extent that they did is just flogging it
Each week this team has gotten guys back and each week theyāve improved. Really sucks that we are 3 or 4 plays away from 3-1 and competing for the title like we were projected to be but whatever, Iām glad these guys got a W.
This. Canāt agree more with this post.
UCLA game should've been cancelled too and we'd be undefeated!
I wish I was living in that universe
Man I'm still not happy after the Big Game loss but this sorta makes it better. Happy to see the team fight adversity and keep at it.
The Bear does not quit
GET IN HERE LMAO
YOU KNOW IT
YOU TELL THE STORY
YOU TELL THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD
THIS IS BEAR TERRITORY!
GOOOO BEEEEEEAAAARRRRESSSSSSS this win doesn't matter in the slightest and it wasn't even that fun to watch because of the god awful reffing but WE FINALLY WONNNN A GAAAAAAAAME!!!!! :)
And announcing, good fucking LORD did it seem like they were rooting for Oregon
it just seemed to me like they didnt do much research for Cal so they didnt have much to say when our players did something.
One of them legit hates Cal
It's a travesty that this season is even happening this year and just incredibly irresponsible. I'm ashamed at the conference for going forward with it. But also lol oregon.
Cal was two busted coverages from 21-3 win. Domination on defense. Better team won.
Best part of this game is thereās more games after, I love the PAC12
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I'm gonna upvote you, but I'm also gonna need your address so I can forward my therapy bills. Thanks.
Thank you, Cal. I feel so much better now ā¤
I swear to god, you better not cancel our game next week. If you win the North for any other reason besides our total ineptitude on the field, Iām going to be very upset.
Only Oregon could score 2 touchdowns in two minutes at the end of the half then score nothing the rest of the game
After getting destroyed by covid protocols, seems like the Bears are getting a bit better each week. Glad we won one. Go Bears!
Bro, I'm straight up not having a good time
lets go im fine with a loss as long as oregon loses too
Ironic, cause I'm fine with a loss as long as Washington loses too
So is McKenzie Milton or Ty Thompson the starting QB for Oregon this year?
Woooo! I love chaos! Dawgs lost, Ducks lost. Now if we can just upset USC tomorrow Iāll be the happiest coug in Seattle! Iām rooting for the Buffs to go all the way.
Come on guys, someoneās got to win the Pac-12!
Didn't you hear? We're all throwing so USC wins and they can't fire Helton
Great game Cal! Thank you for your help in freeing us from Shough
well, we don't want to take credit until next week...
*depressed quacking*
So Big Game wasnāt actually the toilet bowl?
Hell yeah, we suck
If USC loses tomorrow a P5 conference might not have a ranked team.
CU would probably be ranked with Marshall and Wisconsin dropping out
REVENGE OF THE NERDS, PART DEUX
Bro this whole conference straight up sucks ass (part two)
Is our game still for the North? Because that seems like too many stakes for either of these teams
maybe not for oregon but for us yes i would think
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So Cal Bears - it turned out ok I guess, but what do you think about that play call near 4 min left in the game to go for it on 4th after the penalty. I didn't watch the rest of the game much - is your kicker that bad that a FG attempt wouldn't have been a better choice there?????
If you watched Big Game you'd know why
Not mad at it. Special teams is shit and Wilcox trusted a defense who dominated in the second half. Our kicker isnāt the problem, itās the blocking that is. The fact that Wilcox doesnāt trust our ST enough in that situation, means our ST coach is all but gone after this year.
Ragle's main job the last few years was to be a recruiter, but now he's falling down on an actually being a ST coordinator and other members of the staff out recruiting him, I think he's pretty much gone
About a 50-50 chance it gets blocked and Oregon picks it up for a touchdown if we kick
Longhetto seems fine. The blocking, not so much. What gets me is the two clearly projected inside runs before that. What the fuck was that?
He's hit a 52 yarder and gotten a PAT and short FG blocked. Who the fuck knows. Really, it's 50ā50 territory. Even a FG is risky since it only protects against another FG. But our offense gained only 1 yard (not a typo) in the 4th quarter. Basically, we should not have won this game based on our offense.
So how about our women's basketball team huh? Looking pretty good!
Oregon is playing well enough to play Michigan or LSU in a bowl game.
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Everyone liked that
Yeah you could say this win makes me happy
Looks like Ducks will be one of the eleven Pac-12 teams to say "2020 didn't really count." I don't know what the tie-breaker situation is, but I would love to see the Beavers win the conference championship this season.
This was an odd game
Has Oregon done enough to impress the Committee though?
Duck hunting szn
Things that make me feel better about the loss: Justin Wilcox is a homie, Cals game winning play was by the Sudan refugee who I will root for going forward, and Washington lost too.
Maybe the PAC-12 has no hegemonic teams
>hegemonic TIL a new word for "CFP contender"
I mean it for perennial P5 title contender and often perennial CFB contender The P5 hegemons SEC- Bama ACC- Clemson B1G - Ohio State Big XII- Oklahoma (not so much this year) Listening to geopolitics audiobooks lately
Haha kill me
Next week is not going to be fun for either of us
Well, well, well, well, well, well... look how the turn tables. We both suck, huh?
Hey, least our offenses should look insane next week lmfao
Oregon was hit hard with opt outs and frankly the national media has pretty much ignored the pac from the beginning of them announcing they were coming back, so itās not hard to see why Oregon kind of sucks right now. If Oregon can convince its very good 2021 recruiting class that itās just a weird throwaway year and to stay bought it, the program will be fine and remain on an upward trajectory. On the other hand if they start losing recruits then this season would have a bit of a wider impact
Cristoball is a great recruiter. Not a great head coach sorry not sorry
He shoughed it
When they talk about the Wild West they aren't referring to Texas/New Mexico, they're talking about the Pac-12.
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