(No Ratings Yet)Worthless Cal Predictions (Bears Necessity)
Posted August 18, 2008 at 6:45 pmLots of varying predictions about what Cal’s season is going to look like only confirms one thing: Someone on this list is going to look damned stupid.
Phil Steele already set the bar by ranking Cal #2 in the conference, certainly above most normal expectations. However he also had Cal #5 last season, which was as [...]ShareThis
(No Ratings Yet)AP top 25 (BearTalk)
Posted August 16, 2008 at 9:36 pmThe Associated Press preseason top 25 was released today. Cal was just out of the rankings, earning 59 votes for No. 28. The Bears got 41 votes in the first USA Today poll, putting them at No. 32. USC is ranked second, Arizona State is at No. 15 and Oregon at No. 21.
Michigan State, Cal’s [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Preseason BlogPoll (Excuse Me For My Voice)
Posted August 15, 2008 at 1:56 pmThe BlogPoll is the invention of mgoblog’s Brian Cook. He solicits the opinion of LOTS of different bloggers and other web-oriented college football fans. He explicitely notes the team loyalties of each of his pollsters.
This year I have been invited to participate in the poll. The “normal” schedule is to create the [...]
(1 votes, average: 1 out of 5)GoldenBlogs Preseason Top 25 (California Golden Blogs: Front Page Posts)
Posted August 15, 2008 at 11:59 amWell, with the season just two weeks away, it’s time to unveil the California Golden Blogs’ preseason BlogPoll ballot. For those of you unfamiliar with the BlogPoll, here’s the info, straight from the horse’s mouth (the horse being Brain Cook of MGoBlog):
WHAT IS THE BLOGPOLL? It’s basically the AP poll except with bloggers. It’s a poll and so fall prey to all the …
Tags: Arizona State, BCS, football (No Ratings Yet)Previewing the Season : Arizona State (California Golden Blogs: Front Page Posts)
Posted August 14, 2008 at 3:31 pm
vs. 
Game #5 : October 4 vs. Arizona State (time and television TBA).
TwistNHook: Ok, show of hands, who thinks we should just skip these guys, because, I mean c’mon, we already know everything there is to know about Arizona State University football. Go Buffs! Buffs, right? It is the Buffs? …
(No Ratings Yet)Give Me Bad Numbers: Pac-10 Quarterback Analysis, Part II (Bears Necessity)
Posted August 5, 2008 at 3:14 amThe college quarterback rating formula is absurdly reductionist. It overvalues completions rather than completion percentage, it overvalues touchdowns rather than drives, it overvalues interceptions by placing them all at the same value, and it really really really overvalues yardage without analyzing yards after catch. Almost all of the things plugged into the formula represent outcomes [...]ShareThis
Tags: Arizona State, football, Nate Longshore, pac-10, Stanford, The Big Game, UCLA (No Ratings Yet)A commitment (BearTalk)
Posted August 4, 2008 at 3:26 pmScout.com reported Friday that Cal received an oral commitment from 6-foot-1, 190-pound cornerback Vachel Samuels of Lynwood. He is rated the 28th-best corner in the nation by scout.com, which also reports Samuels received offers from Arizona State, Boise State, Nebraska, Oregon, Stanford and Washington State.
Tags: Arizona State, Stanford, Washington State (No Ratings Yet)Ask Yellow Fever (California Golden Blogs: Front Page Posts)
Posted August 4, 2008 at 8:39 amWe thought it might be a good idea to dip into Ted Miller’s mailbag, since he reads us now and everything. Or at least, he likes to read danzig’s posts professing his love for Longshore. And away we go…
Dan from Portland writes: Fever, I am sure you have by now received countless emails from my fellow Oregonians stating that the greatest college football rivalry of …
(No Ratings Yet)USA Today top 25 (BearTalk)
Posted August 1, 2008 at 4:15 pmJust getting to the blog today after working on some training camp preview stories, which you will see Sunday and Monday. The USA Today top 25 was released today and Cal appeared in “others receiving votes,” totaling 41 votes to place No. 32 in the poll. Three Pac-10 teams were ranked: USC (No. 2), Arizona [...]
Tags: Arizona State, pac-10, UCLA (No Ratings Yet)Ted Miller Really Loves the Pac-10 (But HATES Duck) (Bears Necessity)
Posted July 29, 2008 at 12:38 pmIf you’ve been following this recent post-Washington columnist/now ESPN blogger, he finds some pretty good stuff around the Pac-10, which makes him a pretty good man for finding the various info that I need to know about the Pac-10.
That being said, he’s been going a little nutty with his Pac-10 love the past few days. [...]ShareThis
(No Ratings Yet)Them Shores Be Long: Pac-10 Quarterback Analysis, Part I (Bears Necessity)
Posted July 28, 2008 at 6:08 pmPart-time BN contributor Danzig wrote a killer post on CGB discussing the merits and demerits of Nate Longshore. There are a few parts I want to analyze and some other issues I’d like to expand upon, as I look across the state of Pac-10 QBs this week going into 2008.
Passing efficiency:
Also notice that versus certain [...]ShareThis
(No Ratings Yet)Pac-10 follow-up (BearTalk)
Posted July 28, 2008 at 2:55 pmBefore we get to Bay Area college football media day, which was held today in San Francisco, here is some more material from Thursday’s Pac-10 media in Los Angeles.
–A lot of the buzz around Washington involves quarterback Jake Locker, last season’s Pac-10 Freshman of the Year who is expected to do even better things this [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Back to media day (BearTalk)
Posted July 24, 2008 at 9:25 pmLet’s catch up on Pac-10 media day.
New UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel was a big hit with the press. He kept everyone entertained throughout most of his 15 minutes at the podium along with defensive tackle Brigham Harwell. When the first question was prefaced by a comparsion to USC, Neuheisel said “First question: USC.”
When asked about [...]
(No Ratings Yet)2008 Pac-10 Football Media Poll (myBearTerritory Photo Blog)
Posted July 24, 2008 at 6:25 am
Judge Today is
Pac-10 media day and the 2008 pre-season media
has been released. As expected, USC is the
overwhelming choice to win another Pac-10 title,
receiving 38 out of 39 first place votes.
Who was the recipient of the other first place
vote…. the California Golden Bears. The
results are as …
(No Ratings Yet)One man’s picks (BearTalk)
Posted July 23, 2008 at 3:05 pmWith the Pac-10 preseason media poll being released tomorrow at Pac-10 media day, I thought I would share my picks. This is a very difficult year to figure out the pecking order of the conference. More so than ever, the Pac-10 appears to be USC followed by everybody else. I basically see the conference broken [...]
Tags: Arizona State, BCS, Jahvid Best, Kevin Riley, Nate Longshore, NFL Draft, pac-10, spring practice, Stanford, UCLA, Washington State