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I'll be dialed in from the press box in the Coliseum. Getting out there early to be in place for tip off (or close to it).

Please Lord make it so. We are the most pathetic team in college football.

Jesse's matchup breakdown;


Jesse has a conflict today, so your's truly will be covering the game in full, as USC played last night and I am unencumbered on a Saturday. Looking forward to conversing in the game thread!

Here are our weekly winners to this point!

DM me your email and I'll send the $25 Amazon gift card electronically this weekend. We've had one more EXACT winner ($50 Amazon card). All winners also get two free months tacked onto their subscriptions, which I'll also process this weekend.

I just have to tally the complete season averages (and I skipped one week in the middle of the season I have to get all the Wazzu scores input). USC has a Friday night game so I've been in a time crunch since getting back from the wedding in South Carolina on Tuesday morning, but that's all that's left to do to bring us up to date. And the winners can get paid immediately!

That said, get those picks in Cal-Oregon State!!!

WINNERS:

USC 41, Cal 35: @SlugLyfe57 (USC 41-31) ... Off just 4 points. ... Nobody else was really even close. Nice job.

Oregon 42, Cal 24: @Eugene Choo (Oregon 41-20) ... Off 5 points ... Also close were ilyn (7), Me (7), SlugLyfe57 (8), bluebeargold (8) and sppbears (8)

Washington 28, Cal 21: @tluv123 (UW 28-21) ... EXACT HIT .... Also close were sflye13 (2), UrsosArctosCaliforrnicus (4), Bubba_Bear84 (4), Me (4), gocalbears1994 (5),marklog (6), Ptown Mac11 (7), fjbards (7), DenMaf (7), mike79 (7), droski (7), ilyn (8), icbear (8)

Colorado 20, Cal 13: @hessebear (Cal 21-17) and @dhemy (Cal 17-13) ... Tie, both off 11 points ... Nobody else close (I'll pay both winners)

Washington State 28, Cal 9: @rathokan (WSU 27-20) and @droski (WSU 21-14) ... Tie, both off 12 points (I'll pay both winners) ... Next closest were spbdoug (14), marklog (15), Colonial Bear (15)

Cal 49, Arizona 31: @febfeb (Cal 35-28) ... Winning at 17 points off ... Next closest were calderon11 (18) and BarliBear (18)

Notre Dame 24, Cal 17: @drfunk4316 (Notre Dame 24-17) ... EXACT HIT

Cal 20, UNLV 14: @drfunk4316 (Cal 24-13)

Cal 34, UC Davis 13: @cal1982 and @Ptown Mac11 (Cal 34-13) ... EXACT HITS (Paid)

1p pt...vs Notre Dame, in St. Louis...the Irish are ranked 9th...
Just fyi for those of you who don't hate women's sports...

It seems that FTX, who has the long term naming rights to CMS, has had to disappear into Binance as its rescuer. Hopefully, Binance takes over FTX's obligations

Coach Rollinson is going to retire at the end of this season. My son played for him and would run through a wall for him. We know Rollo very well and are sad he is retiring but he is deserving of it and at some point it was going to happen. Coach Rollo is an institution. He will be hard to replace. Rock N Roll Baby as he would say.

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Some more insight into the addition of Devin Curtis by Cal today as he gave the Bears his commitment on Signing Day. The program has yet to announce his signing, but it is expected to happen soon.

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National player of year
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2 additional all-Americans
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Metro NY section player of the year, who is a depth filler in this class but in other years would be considered one of the more highly regarded recruits.

Here's my breakdown of the key storylines, talking points and comments from the week as the Bears prepare for Oregon State.

Yet the USC broadcast was filled with excuses. Media is filled with excuses. Canzano called him a "great coach" a couple of weeks ago. I don't get it? Is being a nice guy enough to get a pass from everyone for sucking at your job? is this Clay Helton 2.0?

It looks like Cal has a great chance here with the three-star prospect from Texas, depending on how this weekend goes.

We had heard this was looking possible again, didn't expect anything to move this fast as we were still trying to reconnect with him. On3 reports he's recommitted, Matt or I will hopefully touch base with him tonight.

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I'm on it and will have the updates ...

Much of this is from the one-on-one interview I had with Mark Fox at Pac-12 Media Day that I ultimately decided to save for our season preview piece (which this is).

because their current hoops coach is not much better than fox

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...drej-stojakovic-announces-commitment-stanford

Tonight's inactives for Cal:

• #3 Jarred Hyder
• #10 Josh Ragsdale
• #12 Jack McCloskey
• #32 Jalen Celestine
• #33 DeJuan Clayton

Facing liquidity crunch, being acquired by Binance.

Wonder what impact that will be on Cal’s coffers given FTX naming rights?

Go Bears

4-2 last week for 36-30 for the year. 0-1 for my lock of the week for 3-7 for the year. https://cal.forums.rivals.com/threads/lets-pick-the-pac-12-games-week-10.31575/

[home team in italics]

USC by 33.5 over Colorado - USC is sneakily not that great. Colorado covers.

WSU by 8.5 over ASU - I get WSU just clownstomped the furd, but they are a little too justin wilcoxie for my liking. ASU covers.

Oregon by 12.5 over UW - UW's D is baaddd. Oregon will score 50. Oregon covers.

Oregon State by 13.5 over Cal - I fully expect a cal loss, but almost 2 tds is ridiculous. Cal covers.

Utah by 23.5 over the Furd - Furd is done. Utah covers.

UCLA by 19.5 over Arizona - Hard to see fUCLA up for this game. Arizona covers.



Non conference lock of the week: Michigan by 28.5 over Nebraska - Too many points. Nebraska covers.

Hopefully UCLA somehow stays and we will call it a day

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