After Cal lost to Central Arkansas by 27 at home I wrote an article that summarized what happened to cause some of the worst Pac teams in modern conference history. I wrote it out because, at the time, I feared that the 2018 Bears were destined to follow in the footsteps of those teams. Alas, that came to pass in an 8-23 (2-16) regular season and a 240 Kenpom ranking.
But there’s something I left out of that run-down of the down-trodden. How did those teams recover from rock bottom? And what, if anything, can we learn from their travails?