Monday, October 10, 2005
Beavs at 3-2
OK, after a busy opening 5 weeks of the season, including 4 home games, I finally have time to sit down and talk about this years Beavs. At 3-2 with big come from behind wins over BSU and WSU the Beavs are poised for yet another bowl birth. At this point I think we get Zona and Stanford at home, leaving just one more victory to get. The likely candidate is at Washington as UCLA, Cal and Oregon seem to be playing at a level that we have yet to achieve. For this group 6-5 and an extra month of work would be great. Still can't run, can't stop the pass and yet have found a away to compete with everyone except L'ville. Let's take a look at this week.
Beavs @ Cal
Saturday 12:30 PDT on ABC
Cal is coming off a loss to UCLA and is all about the ground game. The good news is that the Beavs run defense has been good so far giving up 3.5 ypc. However, teams have had so much success against us in the air that running isn't always on their mind. Alex Brink from WSU put up 531 yards in a game that WSU led into the 4th. Our only hope in this game is to get Cal into a passing game. Booya hasn't been great yet and I think we can force him into some mistakes. If he is just able to turn around and hand off to Lynch (6.1 ypc) and Forsett (8.3 ypc) then we are in for a long, long day. Surprisingly I think we can stop the run and I give us a decent chance in this game. We have won the last two trips to Berkley and have two weeks to prepare revenge for last years whoopin in Corvallis. No Aaron Rogers this time and I think it will matter. This would be a giant win and setup the Matt Moore homecoming the following week at UCLA. Stay tuned.
Beavs @ Cal
Saturday 12:30 PDT on ABC
Cal is coming off a loss to UCLA and is all about the ground game. The good news is that the Beavs run defense has been good so far giving up 3.5 ypc. However, teams have had so much success against us in the air that running isn't always on their mind. Alex Brink from WSU put up 531 yards in a game that WSU led into the 4th. Our only hope in this game is to get Cal into a passing game. Booya hasn't been great yet and I think we can force him into some mistakes. If he is just able to turn around and hand off to Lynch (6.1 ypc) and Forsett (8.3 ypc) then we are in for a long, long day. Surprisingly I think we can stop the run and I give us a decent chance in this game. We have won the last two trips to Berkley and have two weeks to prepare revenge for last years whoopin in Corvallis. No Aaron Rogers this time and I think it will matter. This would be a giant win and setup the Matt Moore homecoming the following week at UCLA. Stay tuned.
