Cal's successes and failures in the Tedford era
by royrules22
on Jun 18, 2008 12:19 PM PDT
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So I was bored and decided to make a little script that would basically calculate Cal's success and and failures in the Tedford era.
Thus I have two tables below that show Cal's W-L record against all the teams it has played since 2002 and another table showing Cal's W-L record in eachy city Cal has played in since 2002.
The tables are color coded from blue to red with blue representing good (100% WR %age) and red representing bad (0% of games were won). Last item is an image of the map of US with circles centered
around the cities Cal has played in colored from blue to red. It's the same thing as the 2nd table except shown graphically.
It would be interesting now to perhaps overlay the location information with recruiting information to see how much of a correlation success in an area has to do with recruits.
Or we could overlay with another team's record to see something.
Interesting information that can be gleamed is that we have quite a bit of one-off games played in the Tedford era. What's that about? Also the high concentration of red in SoCal is concerning...
Don't make fun of my scripting skillz (or lack thereof) :p
| Team | W | L |
| Sacramento State | 1 | 0 |
| Virginia Tech | 1 | 0 |
| Illinois | 2 | 0 |
| BYU | 1 | 0 |
| Minnesota | 1 | 0 |
| Louisiana State | 1 | 0 |
| Texas A&M | 1 | 0 |
| Portland State | 1 | 0 |
| Baylor | 1 | 0 |
| Southern Mississippi | 2 | 0 |
| New Mexico State | 3 | 0 |
| Michigan State | 1 | 0 |
| Stanford | 5 | 1 |
| Washington | 5 | 1 |
| Arizona State | 4 | 1 |
| Washington State | 3 | 1 |
| Arizona | 4 | 2 |
| Air Force | 2 | 1 |
| Oregon | 3 | 2 |
| Tennessee | 1 | 1 |
| UCLA | 3 | 3 |
| Colorado State | 1 | 1 |
| Oregon State | 2 | 4 |
| USC | 1 | 5 |
| Kansas State | 0 | 1 |
| Utah | 0 | 1 |
| Texas Tech | 0 | 1 |
| Location: | W | L |
| Las Cruces NM | 1 | 0 |
| Champaign IL | 1 | 0 |
| Hattiesburg MS | 1 | 0 |
| Colorado Springs CO | 1 | 0 |
| Las Vegas CA | 1 | 0 |
| Pullman WA | 1 | 0 |
| East Lansing MI | 1 | 0 |
| Phoenix AZ | 1 | 0 |
| Fort Worth TX | 1 | 0 |
| Fort Collins CO | 1 | 0 |
| Berkeley CA | 28 | 9 |
| Seattle WA | 3 | 1 |
| Palo Alto CA | 2 | 1 |
| Corvallis OR | 2 | 1 |
| Tempe AZ | 2 | 1 |
| Tucson AZ | 1 | 1 |
| San Diego CA | 1 | 1 |
| Eugene OR | 1 | 2 |
| Los Angeles CA | 0 | 3 |
| Salt Lake City UT | 0 | 1 |
| Pasadena CA | 0 | 3 |
| Kansas City MO | 0 | 1 |
| Knoxville TN | 0 | 1 |
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one-off games
by my count, we’ve played 12 teams exactly once during the Tedford Era. 4 of these teams (Va. Tech, Texas Tech, BYU, Texas A&M) were played in bowl games. The Louisiana Tech and Utah games were the back end of home-and-home agreements that started before the Tedford Era (@ La. Tech in 1997, vs. Utah in 2000), while we finish our series with Michigan State this year, and with Minnesota next year.
That leaves 4 teams as ‘true’ one-off games – Baylor, Kansas State, Sacramento State, and Portland State. Sac State and Portland State are both 1-AA teams that we contracted at the last minute to fill a date on the schedule, and Baylor (who plays like a 1-AA team) was probably the same. The game vs. Kansas State in Kansas City was the last incarnation of the BCA (Black Coaches Association) Classic, a before-the-season-officially-starts matchup at a ‘neutral in name only’ site. The game was an annual fixture before the NCAA disallowed such games.
i like the tables and the map, btw. very colorful, and they reinforce the idea that blue is good and red is bad…
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
by ragnarok on
Jun 18, 2008 12:52 PM PDT
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Thanks for that! Speaking of Baylor, where we expected to lose when we played them? I mean Cal was coming off a 1-10 season. Why would anyone (with exception of Duke maybe) schedule an away game with a 1-10 team?
Also from looking at the map we have a fair bit of midwest games. And next year we get one east coast. We should start expanding out east/south a bit more to bring about exposure.
In other words, Go Bears!
by royrules22 on
Jun 18, 2008 12:57 PM PDT
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personally
I was expecting our Bears to get stomped in that game against Baylor. I was in my second year at the time and my freshman year was under Holmoe, so I didn’t have great expectations. I can say with all honesty that my mind was blown after the first play, and that it was completely blown when we had gotten to 70 points.
I'm still wondering why the Nets didn't draft Leon Powe.
by yellow fever on
Jun 18, 2008 1:24 PM PDT
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re: Baylor
well, IIRC, the mood before the 2002 season was (very) guarded optimism. i mean, anyone would be an upgrade over Holmoe, but nobody really knew if Tedford would be a good head coach. i have no idea what the betting line might have been, but i think most people saw Baylor as a ‘winnable’ game, much the way that Rutgers was a winnable game the year before.
yeah, Cal was 1-10 the year before, but they went 1-10 vs. a very difficult schedule; in addition to a very competitive Pac-10, they lost to both Mountain West Champ BYU and Big 10 Champ Illinois to open the season.
why Baylor agreed to the game, i have no idea. we must have paid them a good bit of money or something.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
by ragnarok on
Jun 18, 2008 1:12 PM PDT
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I didn't realize
We’ve never won in LA. That needs to end.
by Moscow Doug on
Jun 18, 2008 1:44 PM PDT
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yep
7 straight years of futility in Los Angeles. Pretty awful.
On the bright side, the home team has won the last 8 games in the Cal-UCLA series, so I’m optimistic about the Bears’ chances against the Bruins this year…
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
by ragnarok on
Jun 18, 2008 1:48 PM PDT
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well that
and the fact that they don’t have an actual QB.
by Itchy25 on
Jun 18, 2008 2:49 PM PDT
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But they do have Norm Chow and they do face us almost towards the end in November..
In other words, Go Bears!
by royrules22 on
Jun 18, 2008 2:59 PM PDT
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I wonder how a Holmoe map would look like
In other words, Go Bears!
by royrules22 on
Jun 18, 2008 2:19 PM PDT
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as bad as it would be...
it wouldn’t be nearly so red in the LA area…
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
by ragnarok on
Jun 18, 2008 2:34 PM PDT
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One thing's for sure
We so own New Mexico State! Anyone remember that game in 05 when their coach called three time outs in a row to try and ice Schneider(?)? Take that, buddy.
by CalBandGreat on
Jun 19, 2008 12:15 PM PDT
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i just noticed we beat them thrice lol.
And I miss Schneider. He was an awesome kicker.
In other words, Go Bears!
by royrules22 on
Jun 19, 2008 12:54 PM PDT
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Then you’re probably really going to like Anger, he of the hellaciious hang time.
Stanfurd Delendum Est.
by Olsonist on
Jun 19, 2008 10:22 PM PDT
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