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There is pride associated with playing another California team. It might not be the rivalry it is with UCLA, but playing Cal is still a big deal.

The Bears will need to have more ball control than they did against UCLA if they hope to stand a chance against a team that is more talented on paper.

Justin Wilcox and Chip Kelly’s respective records so far this year indicate that Kelly has, indeed, built something at UCLA while Wilcox is still struggling to make a lean-to.

Pressure from the Bruins made the Bears’ offense look like a shell of the one that lit up Stanford’s defense for 41 points just one week ago.

Cal has one final game: USC at home, where it will honor the seniors that have played such a pivotal role in the program over the last four (or five, or six or even seven years). While there may not be real stakes to play for, the Bears will certainly want to win for the seniors.

Like its quarterback, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, the rest of UCLA’s offense can run the ball just as well as it can sling it.

Whether it was your first time watching the Big Game or your 50th, you could simply feel the magnitude of what was happening around you.

Neither side of the ball was able to execute, leading to a 34-10 beatdown that saw the Bears outgained by 264 total yards in the Sunday morning clash.

The Bears are scheduled to take on the Bruins this Sunday in Pasadena, as ASU and Utah, the teams' original opponents, are unable to play due to COVID-19.

Weaver, the nation’s leading tackler with 164 total tackles on the year heading into Saturday evening, surpassed Hardy Nickerson’s 167 during the 1985 campaign.