CAL FOOTBALL CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS COLORADO BUFFALOES 6-4 3-4 5-6 2-6 OVERALL PAC-12 OVERALL PAC-12 -- Justin Wilcox VS -- Kurt Roper RANK HEAD COACH RANK INTERIM HEAD COACH DATE Memorial Stadium TV LIVE STREAM Nov. 24, 2018 Berkeley, CA Pac-12 Networks Watch Pac-12 Networks 2018 SCHEDULE CAL HOSTS COLORADO FOR SENIOR DAY DATE OPPONENT (CAL RANK/TV) TIME TV: Pac-12 Networks – Roxy Bernstein (Play-By-Play), Ryan Leaf (Analyst), Cindy Brunson (Sideline) Sept. 1 North Carolina (FOX) W, 24-17 *Cal Radio: KGO 810 AM – Joe Starkey (Play-By-Play), Mike Pawlawski (Analyst), Todd McKim (Sideline) Sept. 8 at BYU (ESPN2) W, 21-18 *Also available on the Cal Bears Sports Network Powered by Learfield, tunein.com and SiriusXM Satellite Sept. 15 Idaho State (P12BA) W, 45-23 Radio (Sirius 121, XM 197, Internet 959) Sept. 29 #19/20 Oregon (#24/NR/FS1)* L, 24-42 Radio: KALX 90.7 FM – Sam Weismann (Play-By-Play), Sid Naik (Analyst) Oct. 6 at Arizona (FS1)* L, 17-24 Oct. 13 UCLA (P12N)*$% L, 7-37 • Cal hosts Colorado for Senior Oct. 20 at Oregon State (P12N)* W, 49-7 Day on Saturday. The Golden Key Cal Defensive National Rankings Oct. 27 #15/13 Washington (FS1)*^ W, 12-10 Bears will honor 24 student- Category Stat NCAA Rank Nov. 3 at #8/10/11 Washington State (ESPN)* L, 13-19 athletes before the game. First Downs Defense 176 T-12th Nov. 10 at USC (ESPN)* W, 15-14 Interceptions 14 T-13th Nov. 24 Colorado (P12N)*+ 4:00 pm • Cal is bowl eligible and one Total Defense 318.6 18th Dec. 1 Stanford (P12N)* Noon Team Pass Efficiency Defense 111.97 18th Home Games In Bold At California Memorial Stadium, victory away from securing Passing Yards Allowed 183.8 20th Berkeley, CA; *Pac-12 Game; %Homecoming And Joe its first winning season since Third Downs Defense 32.9 22nd Roth Game; ^Cal Athletic Hall Of Fame Game; +Senior Day; Rankings At Time Of Game Or Current If Game 2015 when the Golden Bears Has Yet To Be Played (AP Top 25/Amway Coaches Poll); were 8-5. Listen Live To All Games On KGO 810 AM And The Cal Bears Sports Network Powered By Learfield • Cal has held its last four opponents to 12.5 points per game and 100 yards or less CAL QUICK FACTS rushing (90.5 ypg). Head Coach Justin Wilcox Alma Mater (Year) Oregon (1999) • Cal is allowing 21.1 points, 134.9 rushing yards and 183.8 passing yards and 318.7 Career Record (Seasons) 11-11 (2nd) total yards per game. The pass defense ranks first in the Pac-12. Cal Record (Seasons) 11-11 (2nd) Location Berkeley, CA • Defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter was named a semifinalist for the Broyles Award Enrollment 41,910 on Tuesday, honoring the top assistant coach in college football. Stadium California Memorial Stadium Capacity 62,467 • Jordan Kunaszyk and Evan Weaver lead all Power 5 duos in total tackles per game Surface FieldTurf (22.3), which is also second among all FBS teams. Chancellor Carol Christ Director of Athletics Jim Knowlton • Burlsworth Trophy finalist Patrick Laird needs 229 rushing yards to become the third Tickets (800) GO-BEARS/CalBears.com player in Cal history to rush for 1000 yards in multiple seasons (Marshawn Lynch, Russell White). Laird is also 37 rushing yards shy of 2000 for his career. Follow CalFBNotes on Twitter for updated news, stats, records and • The Big Game originally scheduled to be played Nov. 17 was postponed due to poor much more as it happens. air quality, marking the first postponement of the contest since 1963. The Big Game is scheduled for Dec. 1 at California Memorial Stadium. Visit CalBears.com/fbmediacenter for additional information. FAST FACTS Cal has won all four games it has played this season when winning the 4 turnover battle. CalFootball Cal_Football CalAthletics Cal is allowing opponents 4.7 yards of total offense per play CalAthletics CalAthletics 4.7 Cal has held five of its last six opponents to 180 yards of passing or less 180 and has at least one interception in each of the last four games. 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. Colorado (Saturday, Nov. 24, 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. • Football operations assistant Bud “Dog” Turner celebrates 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.