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Byline: PAC-10 NOTES By Bob Clark The Register-Guard
There's no place in the Pac-10 where the excitement is bubbling quite like it is in Berkeley. Why not? Cal is ranked 13th in the Associated Press preseason poll, its highest ranking before a season in 50 years.
As columnist Neil Hayes of the Contra Costa Times opined of the Bears, `they're virtually assured of posting their third straight winning season, which hasn't happened here since Pappy Waldorf established Cal as a West Coast power in 1952."
Uh, one reminder. That so-promising 1954 season opened with a 27-12 loss to No. 2 Oklahoma and the Bears never quite recovered, finishing 5-5, though four of the defeats were to top-20 teams. This season, there's no ranked team in Cal's future until an Oct. 9 trip to USC, and hey, isn't that a team the Bears beat in '03 anyway?
This is the trendy team in college football. Cal coach Jeff Tedford, the...
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