FAST FACTS Cal Has Allowed Only Six Points in the First Half Through the First Three Games 6 of the Season
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CAL FOOTBALL CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS OREGON DUCKS 3-0 0-0 3-1 0-1 OVERALL PAC-12 OVERALL PAC-12 VS 24/NR Justin Wilcox 19/20 Mario Cristobal RANK HEAD COACH RANK HEAD COACH DATE Memorial Stadium TV LIVE STREAM Sept. 29, 2018 Berkeley, CA FS1 FOXSportsGo 2018 SCHEDULE NO. 24 CAL OPENS PAC-12 PLAY SATURDAY AGAINST NO. 19/20 OREGON DATE OPPONENT (TV) TIME TV: FS1– Justin Kutcher (Play-By-Play), DeMarco Murray (Analyst), Petros Papadakis (Analyst) Sept. 1 North Carolina (FOX) W, 24-17 Radio: KGO 810 AM – Joe Starkey (Play-By-Play), Mike Pawlawski (Analyst), Todd McKim (Sideline Reporter) Sept. 8 at BYU (ESPN2) W, 21-18 *Also available on the Cal Bears Sports Network Powered By Learfield, tunein.com/cal18schedule and Sept. 15 Idaho State (P12BA) W, 45-23 SiriusXM Radio (Sirius 119, XM 201, Internet 965) Sept. 29 #19/20 Oregon (FS1)* 7:30 pm KALX 90.7 FM – Jack Hinson (Play-By-Play), Kevin Lin (Analyst), Shavit Keren (analyst) Oct. 6 at Arizona (FS1)* 7:05 pm Oct. 13 UCLA (TBA)*$% TBA • California is looking to improve to 4-0 Saturday Oct. 20 at Oregon State (TBA)* TBA for the first time since beginning the 2015 *RECENT NIGHT GAMES AT CAL Oct. 27 #11/11 Washington (TBA)*^ TBA season by winning its first five games. Cal has won seven of its last nine Nov. 3 at Washington State (TBA)* TBA night games at California Memorial Nov. 10 at USC (TBA)* TBA • Cal is ranked No. 24 in the current AP Top 25 over the last three seasons. Nov. 17 #7/7 Stanford (TBA)* TBA and receiving votes in the Amway Coaches Poll, Nov. 24 Colorado (TBA)*+ TBA 11/14/15 – Cal 54, Oregon State 24 Nov. 30 Pac-12 Championship Game (FOX)^ 5 pm marking the first time Cal has been nationally 11/28/15 – Cal 48, Arizona State Home Games In Bold At California Memorial Stadium, ranked since Week 9 of 2015. 46 9/17/16 – Cal 50, Texas 43 Berkeley, CA; *Pac-12 Game; %Homecoming And Joe 10/21/16 – Cal 52, Oregon 49 (2OT) Roth Game; ^Cal Athletic Hall Of Fame Game; +Senior • Justin Wilcox improved his career record at Cal to 11/5/16 – Washington 66, Cal 27 Day; ^Pac-12 Championship Game At Levi’s® Stadium; Rankings At Time Of Game Or Current If Game Has 8-7 with the Bears’ most recent win over Idaho 11/26/16 – Cal 36, UCLA 10 Yet To Be Played (AP Top 25/Amway Coaches Poll); State. His record includes a 4-0 mark against 9/16/17 – Cal 27, Ole Miss 16 Listen Live To All Games On KGO 810 AM And The non-Pac-12 Power 5 teams (North Carolina 10/13/17 – Cal 37, Washington State 3 Cal Bears Sports Network Powered By Learfield 10/21/17 – Arizona 45, Cal 44 (2OT) twice, Ole Miss, BYU). *5 pm PT or later start CAL QUICK FACTS • Cal ranks tied for second in the nation in Head Coach Justin Wilcox interceptions with seven. Jaylinn Hawkins ranks Alma Mater (Year) Oregon (1999) tied for second in the nation, individually, with three interceptions. Career Record (Seasons) 8-7 (2nd) Cal Record (Seasons) 8-7 (2nd) • Cal’s defense is currently allowing 19.3 points per game to opponents, which is Location Berkeley, CA Enrollment 41,910 23.3 points less than the 42.6 points the Bears allowed in the final season before Stadium California Memorial Stadium Wilcox arrived at Cal in 2016. Capacity 62,467 Surface FieldTurf • Chase Garbers set career highs in completions (20), completion percentage (20-25, Chancellor Carol Christ 80.0%), passing yards (224) and touchdown passes (3) against Idaho State. Garbers Director of Athletics Jim Knowlton ranks tied for 25th nationally in completion percentage (68.2) on the season. Tickets (800) GO-BEARS/CalBears.com • Jordan Kunaszyk has two interceptions in as many games against Oregon. For updates during Cal football Kunaszyk’s interception in the second overtime of a 52-49 double overtime victory games, follow @CalFBNotes. Follow over the Ducks clinched the victory in 2016 in Berkeley. news, stats, records and notes as they happen. FAST FACTS Cal has allowed only six points in the first half through the first three games 6 of the season. CalFootball Cal_Football CalAthletics The Cal offense is averaging 30.0 points per game while the Bears’ defense CalAthletics CalAthletics 30 is holding opposing defenses to 19.3 points per game. Saturday’s game will be the 500th game that Cal radio play-by-play 500 announcer Joe Starkey will call for the Bears. Associate Director of Athletic Communications (Primary Contact): Kyle McRae – Phone: (510) 219-9340 • Email: [email protected] • Twitter: @kyleatcal Assistant Director of Athletic Communications (Secondary Contact): Tim Miguel – Phone: (510) 326-9761 • Email: [email protected] Associate Athletics Director, Communications (Credentials): Herb Benenson – Phone: (510) 642-0515 • Email: [email protected] Assistant Director of Athletic Communications (Social Media): Jared Prescott – Phone: (510) 701-8924 • Email: [email protected] 2 California Notes – vs. Oregon (Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018) Storylines • Justin Wilcox’s father, Dave Wilcox, is a Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker who played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1964- 74. Justin’s uncle, John (Philadelphia Eagles, 1960), and brother, Josh (New Orleans Saints, 1998-99), also played in the NFL. • Beau Baldwin was a player/coach in a semi-pro football league in Sweden before beginning his full-time coaching career. • Tim DeRuyter served seven years of active duty with the Air Force after his graduation from the academy in 1985. • Burl Toler III’s family has a long legacy at Cal. His father, Burl Toler Jr., was a four-year letterwinner as a linebacker for the Bears from 1974-77. His mother, Susan, is a Cal graduate, as are his brother, Cameron, and sisters, Pita and Laureina. Cameron, was a member of the Cal football program from 2004-07, while Pita and Laureina were on the Cal track and field team. Pita currently works as a member of the Cal Athletic Development staff. In addition, his grandfather, the late Burl Toler Sr., played on the legendary 1951 San Francisco team and later became the first African-American official in the NFL before spending 25 seasons in the role from 1965-89. • During the spring, Wilcox had his student-athletes read a book called The Traveler’s Gift, which is a book about lessons in life that Wilcox wants them to incorporate on the football field and their everyday lives. • Ross Bowers’ father, John, was an assistant head coach/recruiting coordinator/outside linebackers coach at James Madison, while his mother, Joanne, was the head women’s gymnastics coach at Washington. Both left their positions to move to the Bay Area to be closer to Ross. • Former Cal football student-athletes Ron Coccimiglio (1976-80) and Tarik Glenn (1993-96) both currently work with the program helping current football student-athletes with life skills and career development through a program called Life After Ball. Coccimiglio serves as the director of career development, while Glenn is a student-athlete development advisor. • Cal football uses wearable technology GPS units by Catapult, the high-tech methodology that several Golden Bear teams use to improve their performance and reduce risk of injury during practices and games. • Jordan Kunaszyk and other Cal student-athletes recently went to the impoverished Mexican town of Puerto Peñasco and worked with a non-profit organization called “Steps of Love” to put up a foundation for a wall that would surround a garden for kids so they would have fresh produce. They painted a house and the outside of a church building, and they helped a family put up dry wall in their kitchen. • Ashtyn Davis also competed on the track & field team through the end of his collegiate eligibility in the sport in the spring of 2018, earning four All-American honors while winning the Pac-12 title in the 110 meter hurdles as a 2017 junior and back-to- back MPSF Championships in the 60 meter hurdles as a 2016 sophomore and a junior. • Malik McMorris is a dual-sport athlete, also competing on Cal’s track & field team. McMorris found his source of inspiration to succeed athletically and academically in his mother who passed away from breast cancer when he was in high school. • Kanawai Noa and Semisi Uluave are natives of Hawaii and attended Punahou High School in Honolulu. The two have played football together and been close friends since the seventh grade. Uluave also hopes to become a pilot. • Collin Moore and Michael Saffell are members of the on-campus group called The Sports Business Group, which has worked with Cal Athletics with fan experience at football games, and is currently helping the Oakland Athletics and San Jose Earthquakes in the same area. • Jaylinn Hawkins spent the summer serving as a peer advisor, helping the newest Cal student-athletes get adjusted to their new lives as Golden Bears. • Biaggio Ali Walsh’s grandfather is boxing legend Muhammad Ali. The two were very close. Ali Walsh hopes to become an actor or a director. • Six Cal players list international hometowns – Steven Coutts (Brisbane, Australia), Hiroaki Endo (Tokyo, Japan), Jasper Friis (Starnberg, Germany), Siulagisipai Fuimaono (Okinawa, Japan), Gabe Siemieniec (Caledon, Ontario, Canada) and Lone Toailoa (Auckland, New Zealand). • Hiroaki Endo first came to Cal as a student video assistant until an opportunity to join the roster opened up. • Football operations assistant Bud “Dog” Turner celebrates his 49th season involved with Cal football in 2018 and likes to say that he is “halfway through his career.” • Patrick Mekari’s parents fled from the Middle East in the 1970s.