Cal

[badjab]

Look for the Golden Bears to roll in tonight's game. Texas Tech has shown that they can pile up the points, but not against teams with strong defenses. Cal is arguably one of the top 3 teams in their nation with their only loss coming from top ranked USC in a game that Cal dominated in time of possession and yardage, but ultimately lost because of turnovers. The combination of QB Rodgers and RB Arrington will be too much for Tech. Final score will look something like this: Cal 52 Texas Tech 21


from today's L.A. Times...

Tonight brings to an end nearly a month of Bear unhappiness, born in the rubble of a bowl championship series that left fourth-ranked Cal out of the Rose Bowl. Coach Jeff Tedford has done his best to try to remove the BCS specter from the Holiday Bowl ? "It is not a statement game; it's a game where we'd like to come out and reach our potential" ? and some of his players have fallen in line.

"This is history for me," tackle Andrew Cameron said. "I can say I was the left tackle on the first Cal team to ever win 11 games."

All that sounds good, but not every Bear is in lock step.

"I think this is a statement game," quarterback Aaron Rodgers said. "It is a chance for us to prove that we are a top-caliber team."

The Bears thought that had already been made clear, right down to their regular-season-ending 26-16 victory over Southern Mississippi, which won the New Orleans Bowl two weeks ago. Everything was coming up roses for the Bears ? until the final BCS standings were announced and Texas had leapfrogged them in the poll, landing in the Rose Bowl.

"You know, 10 years from now maybe we'll look back and laugh," safety Ryan Gutierrez said. "Right now, we feel we were snubbed. It was a tough thing to swallow. Hopefully, we won't be remembered just for that."

"We haven't gotten respect all year," Arrington said. "This is just another opportunity to show on national television that we deserve the respect."

 

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You know. . . it's funny how many people have turned this BCS thing around to being an enemy of Cal, or that Cal got jobbed. Not true.

If the BCS wasn't in existence, they wouldn't have even had the chance to sniff a jock strap that was in Pasadena. Without the BCS - they are exactly where they are now - the Holiday Bowl. The Pac-10 champion is usc. They woud've gone to the Rose Bowl if we didn't have the current BCS mess.

Mack Brown did his lobbying - good, bad, or indifferent, and got his team in - with the help of Cal "struggling" in their last game of the season. If good ol' Mack doesn't lobby - they don't get in, and Mack gets run out of town, or at least tied to the whipping post. I say: Do what you gotta do to get in. If you can't win all of your games to do it - do what you gotta do.

That's why Cal has no one to blame but themselves. They didn't take care of business - they are NOT the Pac-10 Champions, and thus, they don't DESERVE anything. Sure they've earned a right to be in a bowl game, but tejas has just as much right to be in the Rose as Cal. Sounds weird doesn't it? I know that many of the old school folks would cringe at that, but with the current system - THAT THE ROSE BOWL BOUGHT INTO - this is what happens. THE LUST FOR GREED HAS MADE THE SELF PROCLAIMED "GRANDDADDY OF THEM ALL" - JUST ANOTHER BCS GAME.