What. A. Game!

[katster]

from IRC:

[16:01] katster :22. Oregon is first and goal on the five.
[16:04] katster fumble in the endzone, ruling is *touchback*, under review.
[16:04] katster if it stands, Cal wins.
[16:07] katster if you recall that late hit in the first half? Same defensive guy stripped it.
[16:07] * DreFK is now known as Dreol
[16:07] katster RULING STANDS!
[16:07] LonEagle yay power plants
[16:07] katster CAL WINS! CAL WINS!

I don't believe I've ever shed tears at a Cal victory before. An Oregon receiver caught the ball, made a move towards the endzone, and fumbled the ball into the endzone. And in one moment, we win from Oregon forcing OT with a touchdown to a Cal victory.

We won. And with Oklahoma and West Virginia going back, I suspect we'll be at #4, with a game between #2 and #3 next week.

But we won. We took a hard game, and persevered. We won for the first time in twenty years at Autzen.

We won.

Comments

[rbos.livejournal.com]

Football, right? And not the kind with the white and black ball?

*runs*

[rbos.livejournal.com]

but seriously, awesome. ^^

[jtwilson.livejournal.com]

Congratulations..I haven't been paying much attention to college football due to a) the horror of ND's season and b) the Cubs, so I'm glad Cal is doing this well.

[nickel.livejournal.com]

Update. West Virginia, Oklahoma and Florida ALL lost. Of the top six teams in the nation, three of them were upset today(or yesterday) in games they really should not have lost. I would expect Texas to leapfrog Cal again, because Mack Strong is more lobbyist than head coach, but Texas took a fall too. So the only thing between Cal and the number three spot is a really good showing by Ohio State. Oh no. They played a patsy this week. So they can't really have a good showing. Looks like Cal for #3!

The best part about this? Of the top three teams in the nation, 1 and 3 are Pac-10. How many other teams are ranked? 2 others, Oregon will move down, probably to about 16, and ASU will hold steady for beating on a patsy. That's a darn good showing for the Pac-10. And I'm not ruling out UCLA's return to the top 25 with a 40-14 pasting of OSU.

So, yeah. Football, college football, Pac-10 football, and Cal football. Things I love to talk about.

[nickel.livejournal.com]

Just making an addendum. The SEC will probably still have 5 teams in the top 25. FSU lost at Clemson so they might squeak into the top 25 with a 4-1 record with all the SEC love floating around out there. Still. Pac-10 is universally recognized as at least the #2 conference in the nation. West coast football rules!

[wjhansen.livejournal.com]

Careful. Kat has a Gopher fan on her f-list. The Gophers are not patsies--anything can happen in Big10 football. I expected OSU to win; however, the Gophers still played a really good game. And, they were not shutout like last year's game.

[nickel.livejournal.com]

I apologize. I refer not to their actual status as a team, but to the impressions under-informed Associated Press, that look at a 1-4 record and see nothing other than the numbers. It wasn't that long ago that Cal was a 1-10 patsy. The same team that went 1-10 went 7-6 the next year without any truly significant roster changes. Just a new coach.

So patsy is a relative term. Please accept my apologies for using it lightly.

[wjhansen.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

I was tailgating with a Cal fan this evening--he was plugged into his radio/headphones so as not to miss the game.