Cal replaces top NFL draft pick Jared Goff with Texas Tech graduate transfer Davis Webb at QB in their season opening battle against Hawaii, led by first-year head coach Nick Rolovich, in the College Football Sydney Cup in Sydney, Australia.
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The Bears, who have been in Sydney all week, will fly home Saturday and have two weeks to recuperate before visiting San Diego State on September 10. There will be “American-style food” with highlights including TWO FEET LONG HOTDOGS! Asian and middle Eastern food from nearby catering kiosks also featured, reflecting the multicultural makeup of the neighborhoods around the former Olympic precinct of Homebush in western Sydney. “There are some sharp guys on the underdog side”. He even admitted to noticing some traditional stadium features like the Kiss Cam, supplemented often by Karaoke Cam and Dance Cam – the highlight of the last feature was a young boy with a Cal Bears t-shirt busting some Michael Jackson-like moves on the giant stadium scoreboard.
Under coach Nick Rolovich, Hawaii wants to take home more than the Malibu surfboards they were presented upon arrival Tuesday.
A local marching band provided halftime entertainment, supplemented by 30 members of the Hawaii marching band.
This one took me a minute to find out what is rare in Hawaii.
The Golden Bears came into the contest as three touchdown favorites and they didn’t disappoint the gathering “down under” as senior transfer quarterback Davis Webb showed why his an National Football League prospect with an outstanding.
As a starter in 2014, Woolsey completed roughly half of his pass attempts while throwing for 2,538 yards, 13 touchdowns and 13 interceptions.
The rain that played havoc with training schedules on Thursday was gone, giving way to a sunny, cool morning at Olympic Park where Hawaii held their final session in the shadow of the stadium that was the centerpiece of the 2000 Olympics. When Cal fired their all time winningest coach, Jeff Tedford, after the 2012 season, his replacement, Sonny Dykes, stripped down the program and overhauled the talent to fit his Air Raid offensive scheme.
Dykes only wishes he could use Lynch in a game.
Cal opened its season Friday night 7,500 miles from home, with a new quarterback, new set of receivers and revised playbook – and produced a familiar result. The Rainbow Warriors went just 11-39 in Chow’s tenure, never finishing with more than four wins in a season. Second, it started with an onside kick. “I’m excited for what we can do this season”.
7 p.m. (PDT) at ANZ Stadium in Sydney (capacity: 83,500). Cal’s charter left Sunday afternoon for its 14-hour flight back across the Pacific to San Francisco.
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Cal gets a week off before its nonconference schedule becomes more challenging, with a trip to Mountain West defending champion San Diego State on September 10, followed by Texas’ visit to Berkeley.
