The Bears were holding their second annual “Cal Fights Alzheimer’s” game, where shirts and wristbands were handed out to help raise awareness for the disease. “Cal’s uniforms were also emblazoned with an “#ENDALZ” patch. “They’re even more fun to watch in person, to be quite honest”, Longwood coach Bill Reinson said.
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Those games are a long ways away right now, of course, and the Beavers would prefer to be 7-0 when they face the Jayhawks in Kansas City, MO-more like a home game for Kansas, really.
But he couldn’t stop going on about the Golden Bears winning for the sixth time this season to become eligible to receive their first bowl invitation since 2011.
The Cal Bears have a 5-4 record for the season.
Both teams came out of the gates slowly.
Oregon State has yet to win a Pac-12 game and has lost six straight.
OSU redshirt freshman signal-caller Nick Mitchell, who made his fourth consecutive start in place of an injured Seth Collins, bounced back after throwing for just 84 yards against UCLA, completing 14-of-28 passes for 161 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions and adding 49 rushing yards and a score before exiting the game in the third quarter after being hit late by Cal linebacker Jalen Jefferson. It’s been a quarter of a century since the Oregon State men last flew so high in hoops.
WR Kenny Lawler (bruised buttocks) will play but Maurice Harris is starting. On 83 total plays, the Bears averaged 9.2 yards.
The Bears’ career leader in almost every passing category, Goff completed 26 of 37 passes while helping Cal (6-4, 3-4 Pac-12) pile up a school-record 760 yards in offense.
Goff threw one more touchdown pass to 300-pound freshman running back Malik McMorris before leaving the game with 5:10 remaining in the game.
Running back Tre Watson, who ran for a career-best 110 yards, knows the Bears will be huge underdogs.
Goff completed just one of his first five pass attempts, and that connection netted zero yards.
FanSided Daily brings you the hottest content on your favorite teams. It was his sixth career 400-yard game and the seventh time he has thrown at least four touchdowns.
He joined USC’s Matt Leinart (2009-12) and Oregon State’s Sean Mannion (2011-14) as the only Pac-12 quarterbacks with three seasons of at least 3,000 passing yards.
In Lasco’s stead, a trio of backs picked up the slack with gusto. That’s why Cal is on its way to the postseason for the first time in the Dykes era, before Goff likely heads to the NFL Draft this spring. Junior Khalfani Muhammad also took eight handoffs, and picked up 62 yards. The team’s 307 rushing yards marked a season-high, and was their first 300-yard rushing game since October 13th, 2012 against Washington State.
The Bears magic formula continued. But a slow start against Beavers (2-8, 0-7) didn’t deter the Bears.
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“We have the experience of success and experience of coming up short a couple times of what we wanted”. The NAIA school from Eugene, OR, shouldn’t provide too much of a test for the Beavers; however, it’s never good to struggle in the opening game against a team few outside the state have heard of, in terms of athletics.
