Cal is probably the biggest mystery team remaining in the Pac-12. They’ve only played three games, one against a bad UNC team missing its starting QB, another against an FCS team that started and ended ugly, and a road win against a BYU which is also quite a mystery as no one is quite sure how the Cougars beat Wisconsin. I’m therefore left to cobble together conclusions from incomplete data, and I feel less confident in my judgments about Cal than I was about Stanford or will be for any of the remaining games on Oregon’s schedule. My process was to fully chart the Cal-BYU game, then take the observations from that game and look for any contradictory data from the other two (there wasn’t), then try to gauge BYU by watching their game against Wisconsin; so most of this film study will be of the game in Provo but with other observations as context.
Duck Tape: Film Analysis of California
