09-01-2026, 01:27 PM
I agree with fullmetal. Stanford actually had a winning record (4-2) at home last year, which is atypical since the "big suck" began in 2019. But I think the on-field talent disparity between Miami and Stanford will far outweigh travel/time zone and other extraneous factors that might favor us. I think it's reasonably close at halftime and then Miami pulls away in the second half to win big. I will consider it a moral victory if we don't suffer any new major injuries.
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)