Archive for Archive for October, 2008
Watching Cal-Arizona Online or At the Bars
Sorry I’m late with this guys, I was supposed to post it this morning and I didn’t notice until now that it apparently was posted for Sunday. That wouldn’t have been much help to anyone. Cal football meetups: View Larger Map Arizona football meetups (if you can’t get to the Cal football meetups): View Larger […]
The Bears are Roaring: Arizona Previews
The Bear Will Not Quit talks on Arizona’s spread offense “How do you defend against [archnemesis/former Texas Tech OC’s Sonny Dykes’s spread] offense? 1. You must limit yards after the catch. When this offense racks up 40+ points, it is due to big gains off short passes. Think of how the Patriots used Wes Welker […]
My Contribution To the Infinite Regress
At 4-1 with seven fat Pac-10 games to go, Cal is once again ranked, once again in first place in the conference, and once again besot with a doubting fanbase wondering just how good (or bad) the team really is. Why are we still wondering? Because college football is epistemologically… well, complicated. The future is […]
The Line: Cal -2 at Arizona
This opened at Pick’em, but some sportsbooks have moved the line up. I wasn’t terribly surprised with the line, given all the staistical indicators seem to point toward this game going either way. Why? Just look at Sagarin. Sagarian has these teams on equal footing this week. Although they have California ranked at #15 and Arizona […]
Is Nate Longshore A Better Quarterback Than A Machine?
(Started a thread about cardinal sins for Cal fans last night over at CGB. Come take a gander.) Lowell Cohn provides his bizarro logic as to why he rides the Nate Hate Train. I am not a Nate Longshore fan. I admit that. It’s nothing personal because he seems like a nice young man, polite, […]
Cal-Arizona Broadcasting Information
California Golden Bears at Arizona Wildcats Time: 7 PM Networks: CSN+ Bay Area (channel 400 something on Comcast for most of us in the Northern California/Bay Area, who knows what for everyone else), FSN Pacific, FSN Arizona, FS Northwest, FCS Pacific. All sorts of madness to try and figure out how to watch the game […]
Weekly Cognitive Bias: Regression to the Mean
Image above originally found here. This article (hattip via EDSBS) caught my eye this past weekend. One week after defensive end Greg Hardy dismantled Florida with his pass rushing ability, the talented junior seemed invisible during the Rebels’ 31-24 loss to South Carolina on Saturday. By the second half, Hardy was rarely on the field […]
Change, Change, Change Some More
After Rob Calonge gave this site massive props in putting us in the “Best Blogs” category with other worthy contenders and adding us to his Oski’s Favorites linkroll, it was time to return the favor. I wrote up an article in the SF Examiner discussing the divisive nature of Cal fans and the quarterback debate […]
Week 7 Preliminary Blogpoll
Rank Team Delta 1 Alabama 1 2 Texas 3 3 Penn State 1 4 Oklahoma 3 5 Utah 3 6 Florida 5 7 Southern Cal 2 8 Oklahoma State 7 9 Brigham Young 1 10 Texas Tech 3 11 Missouri 8 12 LSU 6 13 Georgia 1 14 Ohio State 1 15 Boise State 1 […]
Inside the Playbook: USC 28, Arizona State 0
After starting the season on a fairly upbeat note, the Arizona State offensive line has again crumbled into a jumbling mess, giving up ten sacks in its last three games and turning Rudy Carpenter into the Incredible Human Punching Bag. One has to wonder where exactly ASU’s pass protection is going for the second straight […]
