Should die. Both quarterbacks were horribly below average. Neither were good. Neither gave us a chance to jack squat.

And some inaccurate throws to open receivers

I challenge anyone to say otherwise. I’m waiting…

Two bad calls separated this from a 10-6 Cal lead going into the 4th. Just too many mental mistakes all over the place. Cignetti’s got some ’splainin to do.

Oh, and our O-line inexperience finally cost us.

I think Riley will get better with experience. I’m definitely not giving up on him. Just show up for us next week kid; our D will keep us in it!

This was Riley’s first half at the Coliseum… it was daunting I imagine

We played admirably against ‘TEH BEST DEFENZ EVAIR’ … Let’s win out with some pride!

it’s not “protect riley”, its do what it takes to win. riley was cleared before the game…START HIM!!! Longshore is crap…and Cal lost this because of coaching decisions. Not to start riley, and not to request replay on sc’s touchdown at the end of the half. concussion are recoverable. start your best players. end your caution. don’t get too sensitive on me bears….

Despite the loss, I’m proud of this team. They kept it close for nearly the entire game. Our defense kept trying to hand us the game on a platter, but we’d drop the platter or have the platter thrown a little too far over our heads. Our offense played how we all expected them to play against one of the nation’s top defenses: inconsistently. Both QBs had their chances and neither could really do anything with it. Of all our losses so far this season, for me, this one stings the least.

I watched it at a local sporting bar. It was fun, but hte loss sucked.

Of curse, USC fans being as they are 2 harassed me on the way out. As I turned to leave one girl said “Are you happy for the USC win?” I said “Yes, even thouhg I wore my Cal hat and Cal jersey, I was, of course, rooting for USC to win. I don’t know why I wore all this Cal stuff even though Im a USC fan.”

And then on the way out I looked n the directions of a USC fan and then turned to say Bye to a friend. The USC fan, apparently thinking I was trying to dodge him, said “I see you over there! You cant hide from me!” Luckily, we were walking the EXACT SAME DIRECTION HOME! Ai! Awkward!

I tried to laugh it off, but found out that a)hes happy he didnt go to Cal bc he doesnt want to be a hippie and b)Berkeley girls are ugly. I was going to mock his girlfriend, but she, trying to root on USC and yelled “GO UC!” It was more than enough to keep me from jumping in.

I would have been a LOT better with thia loss if I wasnt harassed by all these fans on the way out, merely minding my own business.

i disagree…raise your expectations!!! we determined our own destiny!!! stop sounding like the hilary clinton of the sports world! fat, ugly, and complaining! let’s win!

It’s hard to do anything with 1st and 20s… Penalties murdered us.

just became further away…

msu, ucla, and oregon all have something to say if you say our offense is really that bad

and next week is next week, another chance for PAIN TRAIN

they’ll justify their self-worth by winning another women’s water polo NC

Right on track for 8-4. I’m happy to be right.

Also had the under. Never been less happy to make money off a Cal game.

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is that I’m going to have those two repetitive USC fight songs stuck in my head for the next week. 3 hours of listening to that is inhumane.

you deserve it for having such a passive attitude….riley was cleared to play!!! Don’t worry about his head!

that’s a coaching (up in the booth)error

I can only imagine…. As Twist would say, Triple Le Sigh….

As good as the defense played, they failed to make the play(s) Cal needed to win the ball game. Obviously, so did the offense. How different this game would have been had Williams made that pick, or had Boateng not covered up Ross. The Bears came out the better team in the 3rd quarter and should have taken control of the game. But once again, they didn’t.

If we philosophically dismiss this season as a “rebuilding” year, then we’ve got nothing to complain about, especially if the Bears can win at least two of their last three—as they should. But it is still so very, very, very frustrating to lose to USC, yet again, in the same sort of excruciatingly painful way that we’ve lived through the last five seasons. Five!!

There’s definitely a lot of reason for optimism for 2009. Hopefully the Bears will have good fortune on the injury front next year so that an efficient offensive unit can gel. But this year, combine a new offensive coordinator—the third new one in three years—with absolutely no continuity in personnel week to week at receiver, offensive line, AND quarterback, and you’ve got a recipe for a very inconsistent, mistake-prone offense. Especially when matched against SC’s defense.

I love living in Los Angeles, but it’s going to be sheer hell for the next month listening to Trojans fans whine about how they should be playing in the National Championship game. No you shouldn’t. You blew your chance up in Corvallis, and your team makes far too many mistakes. The penalties almost killed you again tonight. I’ll still be pulling for you to win out, though, so you can bag a trip to the Fiesta Bowl, bring in some extra $$ for the conference, and open up a possible Holiday Bowl spot for the Bears. Sorry, Trojan fans, but the Beavs are going to Pasadena. Good for them.

Both from from the AP.

the “we’ll get em next year” comments roll out? let’s face it, the 2003 victory was sweet. but it won’t happen again for a while. the only way cal will see the rose bowl in the foreseeable future is if usc shoots itself in the foot somehow. save for 2004’s southern miss debacle, cal has never responded well to being in “control of its destiny.”

i don’t know what it is, but even though we play sc close most years, they always just have that extra “push” to pull out the W. and with the number of times they’ve done this to us, i’m not going to dismiss that as luck.

whatever tedford has done to bring out the best in his players and this program, carroll just happens to do it better over at usc. that’s not an insult to tedford by any means, but just the reality of the situation.

As usual, the PAC-10 refs game U$C their phantom TD.
Our D kept the score low.
The O ran down the clock and moved the ball and kept the D off the field.
We executed our game plan pretty well.

No, we didn’t win. But they do have an incredible defense and ours was pretty good too. We certainly were in the game late.

I wasn’t expecting a win but I thought we played well and perhaps helped spoil their title chances.

OSU will have a hard time scoring on this D.

It was an F’N jailbreak up front, we needed a mobile QB… A mobile but accurate QB which Riley was not. Nevertheless I was very proud of the Bears. We killed Vegas and with some different officiating we could have won.

Just got back from the game. Some scattered shots:

1. Oline was newb and showed it. Penalties, crappy holes, poor pass protection galore.

2. Weather was great.

3. SC took advantage of opportunities, we did not.

4. Three timeouts called due to play not being ready? Playcall management = poor.

5. Best tripped on himself twice. Longshore once.

6. On SC’s screen pass TD, we had two defenders lined up against three of their receivers.

7. How many times did Sanchez fake the handoff, roll out, and complete the pass to the TE for an 8-12 yard gain?

Bottom line: Inexperienced Oline, key dropped balls/overthrown passes, penalties galore, SC takes advantage of our mistakes = SC win.

But the illegal formation penalty… Shouldn’t we be watching football, not formations… Did it really matter how many guys were lined up on the LOS that the WR burned USC’s DB?

Would that have really made a difference in that certain play?

I hate obscure penalties. Unfortunately, they are apart of the game

Like many said here, they didn’t help themselves on offense.

The ’Zona and, to a lesser extent, Maryland loses hurt more than a good effort on the road.

How the hell did we hold USC to 17 (or more accurately 10) points? I feel like everytime I looked up Gable was gashing up for 8 yards. Or their TE was catching a 12 yard pass. I mean I barely remember them punting. And I barely remember them not catching balls.

This was one of the greatest D houdini acts I’ve ever seen. I love this D!

is it just me or can he not wrap up tackles at all.

Obviously, we are going to the Rose Bowl next year since USC will have a down year. But all I really want…

Is a friggen WIN in the city of Los Angeles. I’m moving out of town if I have to suffer another LA loss. (oh and lets beat osu next year too)

one at UCLA and another one in the Rose Bowl when it’s actually the ROSE BOWL.

We’re 26th in the AP and Coaches’ polls, meanwhile Oregon State has moved into the top-25.

No BCS ranking for us. I’m surprised to see Wake Forest as #24. They received one point in the AP poll and only thirteen in the USA Today poll. The computers must see something about them that the rest of us don’t. Maybe they’re projected the win the rest of their games.