04-26-2026, 03:30 PM
Stanford defeated Cal this afternoon by a 5-0 score. The current winning streak is up to 12, with two home games this week vs Pacific and Sac State before the team heads to Virginia for the ACC championship next week.
At 18-6 in the ACC, Stanford is finished with conference games and currently stands in fourth place. The worst that Stanford could finish is tied for fourth with Va Tech, who is 15-6 and has a series next weekend at 13th-place Syracuse. I have no idea what the tie-breaker is between Stanford and Va Tech, but the top four seeds earn byes, so I'll be cheering for Syracuse to win one game.
At 18-6 in the ACC, Stanford is finished with conference games and currently stands in fourth place. The worst that Stanford could finish is tied for fourth with Va Tech, who is 15-6 and has a series next weekend at 13th-place Syracuse. I have no idea what the tie-breaker is between Stanford and Va Tech, but the top four seeds earn byes, so I'll be cheering for Syracuse to win one game.
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)