Editor's note: This story was originally published in February 2016. It has been republished ahead of Cal's Marshawn Lynch bobblehead giveaway night on Saturday in honor of the former Bears running back.
California's Marshawn Lynch strode into the 2006 college football season as a Heisman Trophy candidate, but after he turned in a brilliant performance in an overtime win over Washington on Oct. 21, he became something else, something that would fit into the unique legacy -- "Beast Mode!" -- he established in the NFL.
That "something else" is rooted in one signature moment at Cal: when he commandeered a training cart immediately after the game, weaving through a flummoxed crowd of players, fans and coaches, delighting the home crowd and providing a highlight that is replayed as a foundational moment in the Lynch story.