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CAL FOOTBALL CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS TCU HORNED FROGS 7-5 4-5 6-6 4-5 OVERALL PAC-12 OVERALL Big 12 -- Justin Wilcox VS -- Gary Patterson RANK HEAD COACH RANK HEAD COACH DATE Chase Field TV LIVE STREAM Dec. 26, 2018 Phoenix, AZ ESPN WatchESPN 2018 SCHEDULE/RESULTS California Battles TCU In Cheez-It Bowl DATE OPPONENT (CAL RANK/TV) TIME TV: ESPN – Jason Benetti (Play-By-Play), Kelly Stouffer (Analyst), Olivia Harlan Dekker (Sideline) Sept. 1 North Carolina (FOX) W, 24-17 ESPN Radio: Kevin Brown (Play-By-Play), Andre Ware (Analyst), Shelley Smith (Sideline) Sept. 8 at BYU (ESPN2) W, 21-18 *Cal Radio: KGO 810 AM – Joe Starkey (Play-By-Play), Mike Pawlawski (Analyst), Todd McKim (Sideline) Sept. 15 Idaho State (P12BA) W, 45-23 *Also available on the Cal Bears Sports Network Powered by Learfield, tunein.com and SiriusXM Satellite Sept. 29 #19/20 Oregon (#24/NR/FS1)* L, 24-42 Radio (Sirius 108, XM 197, Internet 959) Oct. 6 at Arizona (FS1)* L, 17-24 Radio: KALX 90.7 FM – Jesse Ough (Play-By-Play), Nash Soliman (Analyst) Oct. 13 UCLA (P12N)*$% L, 7-37 Oct. 20 at Oregon State (P12N)* W, 49-7 Oct. 27 #15/13 Washington (FS1)* W, 12-10 • Cal will play in its first bowl Nov. 3 at #8/10/11 Washington State (ESPN)* L, 13-19 game since 2015 when the Cal And TCU Defensive Prowess Nov. 10 at USC (ESPN)* W, 15-14 Golden Bears clash with TCU Nov. 24 Colorado (P12N)*+ W, 33-21 Category Cal Stat/Ranking TCU Stat/Ranking Dec. 1 Stanford (P12N)* L, 13-23 for the first time in school Defensive Touchdowns *5/T-4th *3/T-16th Dec. 26 TCU (ESPN)^ 6:00 pm PT history at the Cheez-It Bowl. Passes Intercepted *17/T-7th 7/T-100th Home Games In Bold At California Memorial Stadium, Turnovers Gained *24/T-13th 16/T-91st Berkeley, CA; *Pac-12 Game; %Homecoming And Joe Roth • This is Cal’s third appearance Total Defense 319.4/16th *344.4/26th Game; +Senior Day; ^Cheez-It Bowl; Chase Field, Phoenix, Scoring Defense 21.2/T-24th 24.4/T-44th AZ; Rankings At Time Of Game (AP Top 25/Coaches Poll in the bowl game now known Before Nov. 3; College Football Playoff Ranking/AP Top as the Cheez-It Bowl. The Passing Yards Allowed 187.1/25th *202.6/40th 25/Coaches Poll Nov. 3 And After); Listen Live To All Games Bears defeated Wyoming in Rushing Defense 132.3/31st 141.8/42nd On KGO 810 AM And The Cal Bears Sports Network Powered *Leads or co-leads respective conference By Learfield the 1990 Copper Bowl and CAL QUICK FACTS Virginia Tech in the 2003 Insight Bowl with the latter also taking place at Chase Field. Head Coach Justin Wilcox Alma Mater (Year) Oregon (1999) • Cal is 11-10-1 all-time in bowl games, most recently defeating Air Force, 55-36, in Career Record (Seasons) 12-12 (2nd) Cal Record (Seasons) 12-12 (2nd) the 2015 Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl. The last time Cal played in a Pac-12 Location Berkeley, CA affiliated bowl game was in 2011 when the Bears faced Texas in the Holiday Bowl. Enrollment 41,910 Stadium California Memorial Stadium • Justin Wilcox has signed a new five-year contract at Cal through the 2023 season. Capacity 62,467 Surface FieldTurf • Jordan Kunaszyk and Evan Weaver lead all FBS duos in solo tackles per game (13.3) Chancellor Carol Christ and all Power 5 duos in total tackles per game (23.0). Both have won numerous Director of Athletics Jim Knowlton Tickets (800) GO-BEARS/CalBears.com honors highlighted by second-team All-America recognition with Kunaszyk being selected by Sports Illustrated and Weaver by Pro Football Focus. Follow CalFBNotes on Twitter for updated news, stats, records and • Burlsworth Trophy finalist Patrick Laird needs 68 rushing yards in the Cheez-It Bowl much more as it happens. to become the third player in Cal history to rush for 1000 yards in multiple seasons (Marshawn Lynch, Russell White). Laird rushed for 1127 yards in 2017. Visit CalBears.com/fbmediacenter for additional information. FAST FACTS 1 Evan Weaver (143) and Jordan Kunaszyk (133) have set the record for most tackles by a Cal duo in a season with 276 combined tackles in 2018. CalFootball Cal_Football CalAthletics Cal has committed five or fewer penalties eight times, including six of the CalAthletics CalAthletics 5 last seven games. Cal’s turnover margin in victories is +11 (18-7). The Bears are 5-0 when 11 winning the turnover battle and 2-5 when they don’t. 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. TCU - Cheez-It Bowl (Wednesday, Dec. 26, 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 Golden 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 undefeated 1951 San Francisco football team and later became the first African-American official in the NFL, spending 25 seasons in the role from 1965-89. • Wilcox had Cal football 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 in their everyday lives. • 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 its kitchen. • Ashtyn Davis also competed on the track and 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 campaigns. • Malik McMorris (track and field), Brandon McIlwain (baseball) and Branden Smith (track and 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 of 2018 serving as a peer advisor, helping the newest Cal student-athletes get adjusted to their new lives as Golden Bears. • 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 is celebrating his 49th season 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 1970’s. His mother’s side of the family left Iran during the country’s revolution, while his father, his mother and four siblings, including his brother and former Cal defensive lineman Tony Mekari, left during the country’s civil war and arrived as immigrants in Foster City, Calif., before moving to Southern California.