Golden Nuggets: A Salute to the Cal Seniors

for the Bears to make it to the 4 team tournament (taking place in Berkeley) where there is only 1 at large bid, Cal would probably need U$C to not be upset by UCLA while Cal beat Furd in the 3rd place game.

if both of those happens, then Cal might get the bid

GO BEARS!

You may disagree with how the seasons went but you sure can’t deny that it has been memorable and that the Bears all gave it their absolute best.

Go Bears!

Per Joe Stiglich on Bear Talk

–I talked to a few bowl officials from around the Pac-12 today and they all had really good things to say about Cal. I’ll have a story about that in [Sunday’s] paper. The Bears could land in a game as high as the Alamo Bowl – the No. 2 Pac-12 bowl behind the Rose Bowl – although lots of factors come into play here. First, Stanford and Oregon would each have to get invited to Bowl Championship Series games, which boost other Pac-12 schools a little higher on the bowl ladder. The Alamo Bowl would then likely be choosing between Cal, Utah and Washington. The Holiday Bowl, which picks third, also likes Cal very much. And if the Bears slip past them, I’d be very surprised if they don’t get chosen by the Sun Bowl, in which Cal has never played. The Las Vegas Bowl is looking unlikely, and the chances of Cal playing in front of the local fans at the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl appear pretty remote, though Gary Cavalli, the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl executive director, is confident in landing a quality team from the conference.

Stiglich

Officials from the Alamo Bowl and Holiday Bowl — which respectively have the second and third choices of a Pac-12 team after the Rose Bowl — both said the Bears are being seriously considered.

“Obviously they’ve finished strong, which is great,” said Rick Hill, the Alamo Bowl’s vice president of marketing and communications. “We probably haven’t focused on them as much until the last couple weeks, but the communication has been increasing.”

Mark Neville, the Holiday Bowl’s director of communication, had glowing praise for Cal.
“We’ve had great experiences with the Cal football team, and their athletic department and fans have been absolutely fantastic,” Neville said. “The BCS has to shake out, and the Alamo Bowl picks ahead of us. Obviously, Cal is in the discussion and played their way into it, which is terrific.”

The Bears (7-5, 4-5 Pac-12) won three of their final four games — including Friday’s 47-38 victory at Arizona State — and the one defeat was 31-28 to Stanford, ranked eighth in the country at the time.

Critical to Cal’s bowl fate is the widely held belief that Stanford and Oregon will be invited to Bowl Championship Series games, which would mean other teams move up in the Pac-12 bowl pecking order.

After Utah’s 17-14 loss to lowly Colorado, the Utes, at 7-5, are tied with Cal and Washington and no longer a slam-dunk option for the Alamo Bowl.

Played Dec. 29 in San Antonio, the Alamo Bowl pits a Big 12 team against a Pac-12 squad, and Hill said it’s important to pair teams that offer an intriguing storyline. The Big 12 schedule doesn’t finish until next weekend, so the Alamo Bowl won’t make any decisions until then.

If so, then I think we are locked in the Holiday Bowl… assuming Oregon beats UCLA (lol).

What we learned in the Pac-12: Week 13

There’s hope in Cal’s strong finish: The Bears have played good football in November, winning three of four, the lone loss coming 31-28 at Stanford. They likely are headed to the Holiday Bowl, where they will have a chance to record an eighth win against a quality Big 12 foe. There’s a good core group coming back next fall, and the best news is that quarterback Zach Maynard has flashed signs that he might be the guy to lead a resurgence in 2012. Wait: The best news is a return to a renovated Memorial Stadium in Strawberry Canyon.

apparently RPI really trumps the AVCA ranking, Texas is the #1 overall seed while Iowa State is #2. UCLA is merely #9 and Cal will likely be in the same side as either Illinois or U$C and Furd.

In the 3rd place game of the MPSF tournament

Cal crossing its fingers for an at-large berth into the NCAA tournament. Announcement comes at approx. 7:30 pm PT tonight.

Bryan Anger “To Coach Alamar, Coach Tedford and the rest of the coaching staff…”

Anger forgets to mention Genyk, or did he.

Reading all those senior quotes, I’m so glad we recruit and train who we do, and that we don’t produce semi-literate retards like the SEC.