FAST FACTS Brandon Mcilwain Has Four Rushing Touchdowns This Season, All in the Last 4 Two Games and All on Runs of Over 20 Yards
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CAL FOOTBALL CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS UCLA BRUINS 3-2 0-2 0-5 0-2 OVERALL PAC-12 OVERALL PAC-12 VS -- Justin Wilcox -- Chip Kelly RANK HEAD COACH RANK HEAD COACH DATE Memorial Stadium TV LIVE STREAM Oct. 13, 2018 Berkeley, CA Pac-12 Networks Watch Pac-12 Networks 2018 SCHEDULE CAL Hosts UCLA For Joe Roth Game On Saturday DATE OPPONENT (CAL RANK/TV) TIME TV: Pac-12 Networks– Ted Robinson (Play-By-Play), Yogi Roth (Analyst), Jill Savage (Sideline Reporter) 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 125, XM 197, Internet 959) Sept. 29 #19/20 Oregon (#24/NR/FS1)* L, 24-42 Student Radio: KALX 90.7 FM – Sid Naik (Play-By-Play), Nash Soliman (Analyst), Sam Weismann (Analyst) Oct. 6 at Arizona (FS1)* L, 17-24 Oct. 13 UCLA (P12N)*$% 4 pm • California returns to Berkeley on Saturday to CAL-UCLA IN BERKELEY Oct. 20 at Oregon State (P12N)* 1 pm host UCLA for Homecoming Game and the Joe Oct. 27 #7/7 Washington (TBA)*^ TBA Roth Game. SINCE 2000 Nov. 3 at Washington State (TBA)* TBA Nov. 10 at USC (TBA)* TBA • Cal has won eight of its last games against 10/14/00 – Cal 46, UCLA 38 (3OT) Nov. 17 #NR/24 Stanford (TBA)* TBA UCLA in Berkeley dating back to 2000. 10/19/02 – Cal 17, UCLA 12 Nov. 24 #19/18 Colorado (TBA)*+ TBA 10/16/04 – Cal 45, UCLA 28 Nov. 30 Pac-12 Championship Game (FOX)^ 5 pm • Jordan Kunaszyk ranks first in the Pac-12 in 11/4/06 – Cal 38, UCLA 24 Home Games In Bold At California Memorial Stadium, 10/25/08 – Cal 41, UCLA 20 Berkeley, CA; *Pac-12 Game; %Homecoming And Joe solo tackles per game (7.8) as well as fifth in 10/9/10 – Cal 35, UCLA 7 Roth Game; ^Cal Athletic Hall Of Fame Game; +Senior the Pac-12 in total tackles per game (10.2). He 10/6/12 – Day; ^Pac-12 Championship Game At Levi’s® Stadium; Cal 43, UCLA 17 Rankings At Time Of Game Or Current If Game Has Yet is 24 tackles shy of 200 for his career. 10/18/14 – UCLA 36, Cal 34 To Be Played (AP Top 25/Amway Coaches Poll); Listen 11/26/16 – Cal 36, UCLA 10 Live To All Games On KGO 810 AM And The Cal Bears • Kunaszyk and Evan Weaver have combined for Sports Network Powered By Learfield nearly a third of Cal’s tackles (33.2%, 107-of- CAL QUICK FACTS 322). Their combined average of 14.2 solo tackles per game leads the nation. Head Coach Justin Wilcox • Cal has allowed its first five opponents to score only 15 times in 64 drives (23.4 Alma Mater (Year) Oregon (1999) percent) and held Arizona without points over its final 10 drives last Saturday. Career Record (Seasons) 8-9 (2nd) Cal Record (Seasons) 8-9 (2nd) Location Berkeley, CA • Patrick Laird is approaching 1500 career rushing yards and 2000 career all-purpose Enrollment 41,910 yards, needing 18 rushing yards and 74 all-purpose yards to pick up the milestones. Stadium California Memorial Stadium Capacity 62,467 • Cal is allowing 24.8 points, 155.8 rushing yards and 175.6 passing yards per game. Surface FieldTurf Those numbers – all significantly lower averages than 2016, the last season before Chancellor Carol Christ Director of Athletics Jim Knowlton Justin Wilcox arrived (42.6, 272.8, 245.4). Tickets (800) GO-BEARS/CalBears.com • Saturday’s contest is the Joe Roth Game, named in honor of Cal’s All-American quarterback (1975-76) who led the Bears to a co-Pac-8 Championship in 1975. Roth For updates during Cal football passed away from cancer in February of 1977. games, follow @CalFBNotes. Follow news, stats, records and notes as they happen. FAST FACTS Brandon McIlwain has four rushing touchdowns this season, all in the last 4 two games and all on runs of over 20 yards. CalFootball Cal_Football CalAthletics Nine of Cal’s 19 scoring drives this season have been 75 yards or more in CalAthletics CalAthletics 9 length. Cal’s 265 total yards allowed against Arizona were the fewest since the 265 Bears held UCLA to 260 in the 2016 season finale. 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. UCLA (Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018) Sideline Stories • 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. • The family of Burl Toler III 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. • Wilcox had his student-athletes read The Traveler’s Gift last spring. The book is about lessons in life that Wilcox wants the student-athletes to incorporate on the football field and their everyday lives. • Ross Bowers’ father, John, was an assistant head coach/recruiting coordinator/outside linebackers coach for the football program 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. John is now a prep coach at Clayton Valley Charter High School while Joanne is the head women’s gymnastics coach at San Jose State. • 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 visited the impoverished Mexican town of Puerto Peñasco in January of 2018 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 also 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 in his 2016 sophomore and junior seasons. • Malik McMorris (track & field), Brandon McIlwain (baseball) and Branden Smith (track & field) are also multi-sport student- athletes. 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 organization The Sports Business Group, which has worked with Cal Athletics in the fan experience aspect of 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). • Endo first came to Cal as a student video assistant until an opportunity to join the roster opened up.