2018 University of California Football Schedule: vs North Carolina, won, 24-17; at Brigham Young, won, 21-18; vs Idaho State, won, 45-23; vs Oregon, lost, 42-24; at Arizona, lost, 24-17; vs UCLA, lost, 37-7; at Oregon State, won, 49-7; vs Washington, won, 12-10; at Washington State, lost, 19-13; at USC, won, 15-14; vs Colorado, won, 33-21; vs Stanford, lost, 23-13.
2018 University of California Football Media Guide: here
California Football Bowl Announcement Video: here
2018 University of California Football Video: here
 |
| Justin Wilcox |
Prior stops for Wilcox included two stints at Boise State (2001-2002, and 2006-2009), where TCU head football coach Gary Patterson and the Horned Frogs became familiar with his hard-nosed defenses. In fact, with Wilcox as its defensive coordinator, No. 6 Boise State beat No. 3 TCU 17-10 in the Fiesta Bowl on January 4, 2010. Wilcox also was a defensive coordinator at Tennessee, Washington, USC and Wisconsin.
In 2017, Wilcox posted a 5-7 overall mark in his first campaign at the helm of the Golden Bears. This season, Wilcox and his Cal Beas improved to 7-5, 4-5 in the Pac-12, and finished fifth in the North Division of the Pac-12.California was 4-3 at home, 3-2 on the road. The Bears won their first three games of the season, then lost three in a row, and then won two in a row before splitting their final four games of the season. Cal's vicims included Washington, which finished first in the Pac-12 North Division and ranked ninth in the country. California also beat USC and Colorado. The Bears' defeats included losses to Washington State and Stanford.
For 2018 California returned 10 starters on offense and seven starters on defense.
Offensively, the Bears only scored 273 points during the season, an average of 22.75 points per game. Cal racked up 4,202 total yards, for an average of 350.2 yards per game and an average of five yards per play.
Through the air, California accumulated 2,257 yards on 237 pass completions out of 390 attempts. The Bears averaged 188.08 yards passing per game. They scored 16 touchdowns through the air and had 15 passes intercepted. Opponents sacked Cal quarterbacks 29 times.
On the ground, Cal rushed for 1,945 yards on 457 plays, an average of 162.1 yards per game and 4.3 yards per play. The Bears had 12 rushing touchdowns. The fumbled the football 21 times, losing 11 of the fumbles.
 |
| Chase Garbers |
Garbers, a 6-2, 205-pound redshirt freshman, played in 11 games. He completed 147 out of 241 passes for 1,413 yards, for a per-game average of 128.45 yards. He threw 14 touchdown passes, had a long pass of 55 yards and threw seven interceptions.
McIlwain, a 6-1, 200-pound redshirt sophomore, played in 10 games. He completed 80 of 129 passes for 763 yards, for per-game average of 76.3 yards. He threw two touchdown passes, had a long pass of 45 yards and threw eight interceptions.
Redshirt senior wide receiver Vic Wharton III (#17), 5-11, 190 pounds, caught 50 passes for 502 yards, for a per-game average of 41.83 yards and per-catch average of 10.04 yards. He caught one pass for a touchdown and had a long reception of 55 yards.
Redshirt senior wide receiver Moe Ways (18), 6-4, 220 pounds, caught 31 passes for 346 yards and one touchdown. Redshirt junior wide receiver Kanawai Noa (9), 6-foot, 185 pounds, caught 28 passes for 326 yards and two touchdowns. Redshirt senior running back Patrick Laird (#28), 6-foot, 205 pounds, caught 50 passes for 291 yards and four touchdowns. Junior wide receiver Jordan Duncan (2), 6-1, 205 pounds, caught 19 passes for 234 yards and four touchdowns. Senior fullback Malik McMorris (99), 5-11, 290 pounds, caught two touchdown passes.
Sophomore wide receiver Jeremiah Hawkins (10), 5-8, 175 pounds, and redshirt senior tight end Jake Ashton (80), 6-4, 235 pounds, each had one touchdown reception.
Cal returned all of its offensive line starters from 2017. Redshirt senior Kamryn Bennett (#72), 6-3, 315-pounds, redhistr senior Addison Ooms (#57), 6-4, 295 pounds, and edshirt sophomore Jake Curhan (#71), 6-6, 330 pounds, each started all 12 games a year ago. Senior Patrick Mekari (#69), 6-4 320-pounds, redshirt sophomore Valentino Daltoso (#61), 6-4, 305-pounds, redshirt junior Ryan Gibson, (#74), 6-2, 295-pounds, and sophomore Michael Saffell (#53), 6-3, 300-pounds, also made starts in 2017.
 |
| Patrick Laird |
Defensively, California held its opponents to 255 points, a per-game average of 21.25 points. Opponents ran 818 plays for 3,833 yards, an average of 319.4 yards per game and 4.7 yards per play. Opponents accumulated 2,245 yards on 215 pass completions out of 366 attempts, for an average of 187.08 passing yards per game. Opponents scored 13 touchdowns through the air. The Bears snared 17 interceptions. On the ground, opponents rushed for 1,588 yards, an average of 132.3 yards per game and 3.5 yards per carry. Opponents scored 12 touchdowns on the ground. They fumbled 17 times, losing the football seven times. The Bears sacked opposing quarterbacks 31 times. In the red zone, opponents score 28 of 31 times, with 18 touchdowns.
The Bears have many leaders on defense, including junior linebacker Evan Weaver (#89). The 6-3, 245-pound junior led the team with 142 tackles, with 77 of them being solo tackles. He had nine tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks and two interceptions.
 |
| Jordan Kunaszyk |
The punter is redshirt senior Steven Coutts (#37), 6-4, 225-pounds. He punted 63 times for an average of 41.83. He had a long punt of 73 yards. He did not have a punt blocked.
The field-goal kicker is redshirt junior Greg Thomas (#39), 5-9, 175 pounds. He converted 12 of 17 field goal attempts. he kicked a long field goal of 46 yards. He did not have a field goal attempt blocked.
Kickoffs are handled by redshirt freshman Chris Landgrebe (#49), 6-2, 190 pounds.
The team's overall record is 669-539-51 (.552). The Bears have claimed 14 conference titles and five national titles: 920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1937. Cal has participated in 22 bowl games, winning 11, losing 10 and tying one.
The team also has produced two of the oddest and most memorable plays in college football: Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels' fumble recovery and run toward the California goal line in the 1929 Rose Bowl, and "The Play" in the 1982 Big Game (against Stanford), with the last-play five-lateral winning kickoff return.
California's main rival is Stanford. The most anticipated sporting event between the two universities is the annual football game dubbed the Big Game, which was first played in 1892 and has become one of the oldest college rivalry games in the country. Since 1933, the winner of the game has received the Stanford Axe. Stanford leads the series, 63–46–11.
California also has a rivalry with UCLA. The schools are the two largest public universities in the state of California and both have been part of the same conference for many years. UCLA maintains a winning record in the series, 55–33–1.
Football was first played on the Berkeley campus in 1882, albeit in a form that resembled rugby. It was not until 1886 that American football began play. Football was put on hiatus in 1906 when it was decided by the Theodore Roosevelt administration that American football was too dangerous a sport and rugby once again took over the scene. Football returned for good in 1915 and Cal has fielded a team in every year since.
 |
| Andy Smith |
In 1928, the team was again undefeated, with six shutouts and was invited to the Rose Bowl to play against Georgia Tech. While this team is considered to be one of the greats in Cal history, it also is remembered for what happened during its game at the Rose Bowl. It has become the most famous (or infamous) moment in Rose Bowl history.
In the second quarter, California's defense forced a Georgia Tech fumble on their 30-yard line. The loose ball was scooped up by California center Roy Riegels. He began to run towards the Georgia Tech end zone for a score, but then, in trying to get around the Tech players, he inexplicably turned around and headed in the other direction. Riegels advanced all the way to the Golden Bears' one-yard line before teammate Benny Lom was able to stop him. He was tackled by what seemed like the entire Georgia Tech team. California elected to punt on the next play; the punt was blocked for a safety, giving the Yellow Jackets a 2–0 lead and what turned out to be the decisive points of the 7–8 loss.
 |
| Marv Levy |
Craig Morton was an All-American quarterback at Cal who held multiple California football records, including for most career passing yards and touchdown passes. His touchdown record of 36 lasted for 24 years. He was picked 5th in the 1965 draft by the Dallas Cowboys, and was with them for 10 years.
Steve Bartkowski was another All-American quarterback at Cal. In 1975, he was the number one NFL draft pick for the Atlanta Falcons and was named the NFL Rookie of the Year.
During the 1980s, California posted only one winning season. Joe Kapp was the most famous coach in this period. Kapp was a Cal quarterback during the 1950s and was considered to be one of the greatest players in Cal history. Unfortunately Kapp's success as a player did not translate into success as a coach.
 |
| Joe Kapp |
In 1996 California hired Green Bay Packers assistant coach Steve Mariucci. Cal went 6–6 and after the season Mariucci left Cal to be the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.
In 2001, was hired as head coach. Under him, the Golden Bears posted eight consecutive winning seasons, a feat that had not been accomplished in decades. After being ruled ineligible for a bowl game in 2002 due to academic infractions under the previous administration, the Bears appeared in seven straight bowl games.
In 2004, the Bears posted a 10–2 record under Tedford and quarterback Aaron Rodgers, with their only regular season loss coming against the eventual national champion, USC. During that game, Rogers tied a then NCAA record of 23 consecutive complete passes.
In December of 2012, Sonny Dykes was announced as the new head coach of California Football. In his first season, Dykes finished with a 1–11 record. He became the first head of coach of the Golden Bears since the University began playing football in 1886 to fail to defeat a single D-1 opponent in a season that has lasted at least five games. In 2015, the Bears went 8–5. including a 55–36 victory over Air Force in the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth. That year was the last year for quarterback Jared Goff, who was the starting quarterback for three years, beginning the same year as Dykes' initial season, and setting 26 team record. He left Cal as a junior and was the first overall pick of the 2016 NFL Draft.
In 2016, Cal went 5–7, winning only 3 out of nine Pac-12 games. On January 8, 2017, Dykes was fired, with a four-year record of 19–30. The firing came as a surprise as his contract was previously extended and most coaching changes come right after the end of a season and not the following year. Dykes later would become an offensive consultant for the TCU football program before being named head coach of SMU in 2017.
In 2016, Cal went 5–7, winning only 3 out of nine Pac-12 games. On January 8, 2017, Dykes was fired, with a four-year record of 19–30. The firing came as a surprise as his contract was previously extended and most coaching changes come right after the end of a season and not the following year. Dykes later would become an offensive consultant for the TCU football program before being named head coach of SMU in 2017.
On January 14, 2017, less than one week after Dykes was fired, Justin Wilcox was named head coach. Prior to becoming the 34th head coach of the Golden Bears, Wilcox had a successful season as a defensive coordinator for the University of Wisconsin. The Bears went 5–7 in 2017, and 7-5 in 2018, earning a berth in the Cheez-It Bowl against the TCU Horned Frogs on December 26, 2018.
University of California Football Stadium: California Memorial Stadium was built in 1923 to honor Berkeley alumni, students and other Californians who died in World War I and modeled after the Colosseum in Rome.
The stadium is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is on the Hayward Fault, which passes under the playing field, nearly from goal post to goal post. So, the stadium is seismically unsafe.
The stadium has a neoclassical motif. In addition to its unique architecture, the stadium's position at the foot of the Berkeley hills provides top row spectators with panoramic views of San Francisco Bay and west side viewers with views of the Berkeley Hills and Strawberry Canyon. This has earned it a reputation as one of the most scenic venues in college football. In fact, Memorial Stadium has been named one of the 40 best college football stadiums by the Sporting News.
After the 2010 season, the entire west side of the bowl was demolished and rebuilt. The stands in the original stadium descended right down to the football field, and the view from the lowest midfield seats on the west side could be blocked by the standing visiting team members. To eliminate this problem, the surface of the field was lowered four feet to allow unobstructed seats in the first few rows during a 2010-12 renovation.
During the massive renovation, California played their home games in AT&T Park in San Francisco, California. After the $321-million renovation, the stadium reopened September 2012 after a $321 million renovation. The university incurred a controversial $445 million of debt for the stadium and a new $153 million student athletic center, which it planned to finance with the sale of special stadium endowment seats. However, in June 2013 news surfaced that the university has had trouble selling the seats. The roughly $18 million interest-only annual payments on the debt consumes 20 percent of Cal's athletics' budget; principal repayment begins in 2032 and is scheduled to conclude in 2113.
The capacity of the refurbished stadium is 63,186. When the stadium opened, the permanent capacity of the venue was around 75,000 and expandable to around 85,000.
In 2003, artificial turf -- Momentum Turf -- was reinstalled in the stadium. The Momentum Turf surface allows for minimal maintenance and increased utilization of the stadium, for football practices and other sport.
Traditionally, during football games, and especially during the Big Game against Stanford, the hill overlooking the eastern side of Memorial Stadium attracts spectators hoping to watch a game for free, earning the nickname "Tightwad Hill".
The stadium is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is on the Hayward Fault, which passes under the playing field, nearly from goal post to goal post. So, the stadium is seismically unsafe.
The stadium has a neoclassical motif. In addition to its unique architecture, the stadium's position at the foot of the Berkeley hills provides top row spectators with panoramic views of San Francisco Bay and west side viewers with views of the Berkeley Hills and Strawberry Canyon. This has earned it a reputation as one of the most scenic venues in college football. In fact, Memorial Stadium has been named one of the 40 best college football stadiums by the Sporting News.
After the 2010 season, the entire west side of the bowl was demolished and rebuilt. The stands in the original stadium descended right down to the football field, and the view from the lowest midfield seats on the west side could be blocked by the standing visiting team members. To eliminate this problem, the surface of the field was lowered four feet to allow unobstructed seats in the first few rows during a 2010-12 renovation.
During the massive renovation, California played their home games in AT&T Park in San Francisco, California. After the $321-million renovation, the stadium reopened September 2012 after a $321 million renovation. The university incurred a controversial $445 million of debt for the stadium and a new $153 million student athletic center, which it planned to finance with the sale of special stadium endowment seats. However, in June 2013 news surfaced that the university has had trouble selling the seats. The roughly $18 million interest-only annual payments on the debt consumes 20 percent of Cal's athletics' budget; principal repayment begins in 2032 and is scheduled to conclude in 2113.
The capacity of the refurbished stadium is 63,186. When the stadium opened, the permanent capacity of the venue was around 75,000 and expandable to around 85,000.
In 2003, artificial turf -- Momentum Turf -- was reinstalled in the stadium. The Momentum Turf surface allows for minimal maintenance and increased utilization of the stadium, for football practices and other sport.
Traditionally, during football games, and especially during the Big Game against Stanford, the hill overlooking the eastern side of Memorial Stadium attracts spectators hoping to watch a game for free, earning the nickname "Tightwad Hill".
No comments:
Post a Comment