all of this for what?

[katster]

You see? Bear fans don't believe in fairy tales. 'Cause if this had been a fairy tale, we'd be in the Rose Bowl right now, not playing the fourth place team in the Big 12 in the Holiday Bowl. We've really got to find better bowl matchups. Hey Pac-10! Do something about this!

Yeah, I did a lot of crying and moping over Cal football yesterday, and I don't think it's over. 'Cause it still hurts. Funny. 10-1 season, and I'm disappointed. Go figure.

And you sit here thinking about might have beens and wonder if Tedford had shot for the end zone instead of taking a knee at the end of the SoMiss game, if that would have been enough to get Cal in the rose bowl, and you wonder if that's what it takes, do you want to root for a team that does those sorts of things? And when the BCS was supposed to take MOV out of the equation...why did it come down to one game that we had to blow the team out to go? *sigh*

Yeah. I'll stop being bitter. Just that this is typical Cal fan anguish -- fairy tale endings don't happen to the Bears. Not anymore. We used up all our fairy tale endings in 1982.

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)	26	16	410	147
12/30	Holiday Bowl v. Texas Tech
Cal Wins		10	Cal Total Score		410
Cal Losses		1	Opp. Total Score		147
Cal Avg Pts/game		37.3	Opp. Avg Pts/game		13.4

Comments

[primis.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you're 10-1. You'd be a lot angrier if you were 11-0 and still got the shaft (which is probable). Because Cal had *no* chance at a national title ever, no matter what really. Cal had the same shot as Utah and Boise St. Auburn and Oklahoma still would have been undefeated and they'd be in the title game, and Cal, Utah, and Boise St. would still get the shaft, because Cal's not Auburn or Oklahoma.

Welcome to the BCS! Where the Haves™ get the benefit of the doubt, and the Have Nots™ have no shot, no matter what they do. Being in a power conference means nothing if you're not among the certain 2 or 3 schools everyone likes from those conferences every year.

Nothing you could have done in the So. Miss game owuld have made a difference. Why? Because Texas is Texas. And Cal's not. Believe me, as a Michigan State fan I understand. MSU could go undefeated INCLUDING beating UM, UM could lose 2 games, and UM would still get the better bowl bid if neither could go to the Rose Bowl. Pollsters don't vote on the best team, they vote on tradition, then they vote on performance. So you could have dumped So. Miss 62-0 and you'd probably have still been out in the cold.

One thing they can do to fix this is eliminate the preseason polls altogether. Then you don't end up with really, really good teams having to fight their way up from 25th or something and thus never able to crack the Top 5 because the pollsters can't justify bumping someone down from there.


Now... that being said. HOLY CRAP that Holiday Bowl game will be good. Texas Tech? Wow. That's going to be 2 nutty offenses going at it. Someone could pass for 450 yards, 5 TD's, and lose.


-- Primis.

You're dissapointed?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I'm still wincing over the Army-Navy game...