“You can’t turn the ball over that many times against a team like that,” Wilcox said about 30 minutes after Cal’s Saturday night loss and about 30 minutes before the calendar flipped to Sunday. “… We had chances for shock plays, big plays. We didn’t connect on them. … Against a team like that, the margin for error is just so much smaller. That’s a talented team, and you’ve got to make those plays.”
Despite the lack of quit this weekend -- there were many, many places for a lesser team to have folded -- it was about as discouraging a performance as you could have asked for, with poor quarterbacking from both guys, and an inability to even slightly inconvenience Justin Herbert whatsoever.