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So, it looks like Stanford is fired football head coach Buddy Teevens. And while my Stanford friends are probably deliriously happy about this turn of news, as I was when Holmoe finally got the axe, I can't help but think the Teevens era was good for Cal in general. Y'guys ought to have kept him one more year. ;)

My favourite quote over the whole thing is Ray Ratto's take on the difference between Cal and Stanford.

This can be explained in part due to Stanford's strident willingness to pay its head coach less than any other Pac-10 coach, all in the name of "keeping football in its proper perspective." Willingham took them to a Rose Bowl and barely made $700,000; Tedford may get Cal there and the alums are trying to see if he'll take Piedmont, Moraga and the tunnel that connects the two towns as a down payment.

As I said, says it all. :)

Anyway, I should update the schedule, and note that if all goes well, and we beat Southern Miss on Saturday, we are all but guaranteed a BCS bid. If USC beats archrival UCLA on the same day, Cal gets to go to the Rose Bowl for the first time in 46 years. It's not Chicago Cubs levels of futility, but Cal fans know what the word "long-suffering" means. Anyway, since we're 9-1 and guaranteed some sort of bowl game even if we lose, I've added that to the chart. The bowl game, is of course, TBD. We could end up three possible places, depending on how we do, how USC does, and how the BCS polls shake out. We could go to the Rose and play Michigan; we could go to the Fiesta and play Utah, Pittsburgh, Miami, or Virginia Tech (that last one has interesting implications given that it was our win over them in the Insight Bowl last year that lead to this dream season); or we could go to the Holiday and play the third-place Big 12 team, likely Texas A&M.

We'll see. In the meantime... GO BEARS! BEAT THE GOLDEN EAGLES!

Date	Opponent	Cal score	Opponent score	Cal total score	Opponent total score
9/4	@Air Force	56	14	56	14
9/11	New Mexico State	41	14	97	28
9/16	@Southern Miss	Postponed, Hurricane Ivan (story)
10/2	@Oregon State	49	7	146	35
10/9	@USC	17	23	163	58
10/16	UCLA	45	28	208	86
10/23	@Arizona	38	0	246	86
10/30	ASU	27	0	273	86
11/6	Oregon	28	27	301	113
11/13	@Washington	42	12	343	125
11/20	107th Big Game v. Stanford	41	6	384	131
12/4	@Southern Miss (rescheduled)
TBD	Bowl Game
Cal Wins		9	Cal Total Score		384
Cal Losses		1	Opp. Total Score		131
Cal Avg Pts/game		38.4	Opp. Avg Pts/game		13.1

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