I'm sure that others share your opinion, but I hope the game is played, since it will very likely be the last walk/final game and unofficial bowl game for our seniors.
Barring a highly improbable three-game winning streak to end the season, most (all?) of the players who will be on the team next year will have never played in a postseason bowl game. Those few who played as redshirt or true freshmen in the 2018 Sun Bowl--Michael Wilson, Jordan Fox, Thomas Booker, Kendall Williamson, Gabe Reid, maybe one or two others?--are the only ones around today.
Barring a highly improbable three-game winning streak to end the season, most (all?) of the players who will be on the team next year will have never played in a postseason bowl game. Those few who played as redshirt or true freshmen in the 2018 Sun Bowl--Michael Wilson, Jordan Fox, Thomas Booker, Kendall Williamson, Gabe Reid, maybe one or two others?--are the only ones around today.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)