The last seven seasons of Cal football have been a whirlwind. Tedford’s 2012 team was 7 years ago, although it feels like 7 decades ago. Six years ago, Sonny Dykes brought us the Bear Raid era of Cal football, featuring some of the most explosive offenses ever to grace Strawberry Canyon along with some of the worst defenses in school history. In two years Justin Wilcox and friends turned that all-offense, no-defense team into its exact opposite. Touchdowns have become a scarce commodity thanks to a suffocating defense and an offense that managed to regress from the Toyota Tercel offense to a hooptie on cinder blocks in West Oakland.