FAST FACTS 1 Cal Has Scored First in All Four Games This Season
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CAL FOOTBALL CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS ARIZONA WILDCATS 3-1 0-1 2-3 1-1 OVERALL PAC-12 OVERALL PAC-12 AT -- Justin Wilcox -- Kevin Sumlin RANK HEAD COACH RANK HEAD COACH DATE Arizona Stadium TV LIVE STREAM Oct. 6, 2018 Tucson, AZ FS1 FOXSportsGo 2018 SCHEDULE CAL BATTLES ARIZONA IN THE DESERT SATURDAY NIGHT DATE OPPONENT (TV/CAL RANK) 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 78, XM 198, Internet 960 ) Sept. 29 #19/20 Oregon (FS1/24/NR)* L, 24-42 KALX 90.7 FM – Jesse Ough (Play-By-Play), Nash Soliman (Analyst) Oct. 6 at Arizona (FS1)* 7:05 pm Oct. 13 UCLA (P12N)*$% 4 pm • California looks to get back in the win column in its first trip to Tucson to face Arizona Oct. 20 at Oregon State (TBA)* TBA since 2014. Oct. 27 #10/10 Washington (TBA)*^ TBA Nov. 3 at Washington State (TBA)* TBA • Arizona leads the all-time series, 17-14-2, and has won the last four games between Nov. 10 at USC (TBA)* TBA the teams although the last two meetings have both come down to the game’s Nov. 17 #14/14 Stanford (TBA)* TBA Nov. 24 #21/22 Colorado (TBA)*+ TBA final play with Arizona taking a 45-44 double overtime win in Berkeley last season Nov. 30 Pac-12 Championship Game (FOX)^ 5 pm and a 49-45 decision in Tucson in 2014 when the Wildcats ended the game with a Home Games In Bold At California Memorial Stadium, successful Hail Mary. Berkeley, CA; *Pac-12 Game; %Homecoming And Joe Roth Game; ^Cal Athletic Hall Of Fame Game; +Senior • Brandon McIlwain became Cal’s first quarterback to rush for over 100 yards in Day; ^Pac-12 Championship Game At Levi’s® Stadium; Rankings At Time Of Game Or Current If Game Has Yet a game last Saturday since Joe Kapp ran for 130 yards against Oregon in 1958. To Be Played (AP Top 25/Amway Coaches Poll); Listen McIlwain finished with a career-high 123 rushing yards that were the most by a Pac- Live To All Games On KGO 810 AM And The Cal Bears 12 quarterback in 2018 on 15 carries. He is the Pac-12’s leading QB rusher with 38 Sports Network Powered By Learfield attempts for 252 yards (6.6 ypc) and two touchdowns. CAL QUICK FACTS • Evan Weaver has recorded double digit tackles in all four games this season, Head Coach Justin Wilcox including a career-high 14 last Saturday vs. Oregon. He ranks fourth in the nation in Alma Mater (Year) Oregon (1999) solo tackles (7.3) and fifth in tackles (13.3) per game. Career Record (Seasons) 8-8 (2nd) Cal Record (Seasons) 8-8 (2nd) • Patrick Laird is approaching 1500 career rushing yards and 2000 career all- Location Berkeley, CA Enrollment 41,910 purpose yards. He needs 72 rushing yards and 162 all-purpose yards to reach those Stadium California Memorial Stadium milestones. Capacity 62,467 Surface FieldTurf • Ashtyn Davis leads the Pac-12 and ranks 11th in the nation in combined kick return Chancellor Carol Christ yards with 308. He garnered his first career kickoff return for a touchdown vs. Idaho Director of Athletics Jim Knowlton State and ranks tied for second in the nation in that category. Tickets (800) GO-BEARS/CalBears.com • Cal is allowing 25.0 points, 163.8 rushing yards and 184.3 passing yards per game. For updates during Cal football Those numbers – all significantly lower averages than 2016, the last seaso before games, follow @CalFBNotes. Follow Justin Wilcox arrived (42.6, 272.8, 245.4). news, stats, records and notes as they happen. FAST FACTS 1 Cal has scored first in all four games this season. CalFootball Cal_Football CalAthletics Cal’s four interceptions against North Carolina are tied for the most in a CalAthletics CalAthletics 4 game by a Pac-12 team this season. Jordan Kunaszyk and Evan Weaver have combined over a third of Cal’s 33.8 tackles this season (33.8%, 92-of-272). 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 – at Arizona (Saturday, Oct. 6, 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 a book called The Traveler’s Gift last spring. The book is 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. 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 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 in his 2016 sophomore and junior seasons. • 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 an on-campus group organization 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). • 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 1970;s.