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Miscommunications on defense, poor alignments and a truly awful selection of both offensive and defensive play calls left much to be desired. In other words, the Stanford football team had the same abysmal organizational skills as the Stanford band at halftime.

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.

When you’ve got the talent, running the ball and forcing your will on an opponent is the winning formula. The Bears set the tone Saturday afternoon.

Whether the Bears have bad luck or generations of curses bestowed upon them is, frankly, neither here nor there. The reality is this: Cal has to find a way to win these tough games if it wants long-term success.

When you have the Bears’ top statistical rushing quarterback of all time, it behooves you to use his strengths to your advantage. On Saturday, that’s exactly what offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave did. With the game on the line, and on a third-and-long, Musgrave dialed up No. 7.

For most people, being cut from a team hurts. Being cut from a team after performing poorly in your dream position hurts even more. But there’s a difference between being hurt and being done. Collin Moore was not, and is not, done.

In the Justin Wilcox era, the first team to reach 21 points is 37-1 all time, and that trend continued on Saturday. TCU hit 21 points in the second half and ended up with a 2-point win at the end of the fourth.

Here are a few Cal sports events to watch this fall — the ones worth leaving desks and dormitories if fans are allowed to witness sports in person.

The Bears capped off their first week of fall camp with an unofficial scrimmage. Cal ran 87 plays, mixing in a fair amount of run and pass.

After struggling with injuries throughout his career, Michael Saffell decided to medically retire from football July 23rd.