01-12-2022, 08:45 PM
(01-12-2022, 12:54 PM)SamuelMcF Wrote:(01-12-2022, 12:39 PM)Durty Nelly Wrote: Was a unusual season to rate the season so poorly and end up beating USA and Oregon. Who would have predicted the wins and losses correctly this year?
Sadly, multiple people indeed predicted the numbers correctly. (I was not one of them.) But the individual games, almost certainly not.
In the CardBoard's preseason prediction poll, only 1 voter out of 51 predicted 3 wins. A biased sample, of course. No one predicted fewer than 3 wins, but 14 predicted 7 wins (including yours truly) and 17 predicted 6 wins. Only 7 in total predicted fewer than 6 wins, i.e. bowl ineligibility.
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)