Big Game

This game, to many fans, defines if the Bears had a “good” or “bad” season, regardless of what the rest of the year looked like.

Kai Millner has found ways to relieve the pressure that comes with confronting both adulthood and the possibility that he could be the next face of Cal football.

With many Cal players back on the field, it is quite possible that the blue and gold could come out of the match clutching the beloved Axe.

Stanford and Cal both head into the Big Game with not-so-great records: who will redeem themselves from their lackluster standing and win the Axe remains to be decided.

The reality is that Daniel Scott ends up where he wants to end up. After all, he sees the game play out before it even happens.

After an abbreviated and disappointing 2020 season, the Bears appear to have a chip on their shoulders.

We scoured more than 100 years of digital archives to highlight notable events from campus and Daily Cal history. From the very first game at Memorial Stadium to the Milo Yiannopoulos protests, we compiled headlines from nearly every decade since the Daily Cal was founded in 1871. So sit back, relax and take a scroll through history.

It’s that blind optimism at the start of each fall that this is the year Cal football will reach its first Rose Bowl since 1958. It’s also looking for where it all went wrong and harboring thoughts of “maybe next year.”

However, the situation differs for alumni and donors to the university. Football games, and their outcomes, influence if and how much they donate. Much like a “free” lunch, the relationship is not contractual, but it very much exists implicitly.