[Giants]

Wake Forest, Rutgers, Oregon State

Two down, three to go.

Wake and Rutgers are two of the five.

And the other three are…

Cal
Purdue
Virginia

Wasn’t Cal in the final top-25 that year under Tedford when they went to the Holiday bowl?  They finished second in the PAC-10 to USC, who went on to play in the national title, and the Bears were pissy that they didn’t fall into the Rose Bowl (Texas was picked), and then they proved the Rose Bowl right by laying an egg in the Holiday Bowl.  They were in the top-5 heading into the bowl game; hard to believe they wouldn’t have finished in the top-25.

BC

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Looked it up.  The year was 2004 and Cal finished ranked #9 by the AP.

BC

Yep.  The last time Cal was ranked in the final AP poll was 2006.  They finished #14.

[Giants]

Wake Forest, Rutgers, Oregon State

Two down, three to go.

Wake and Rutgers are two of the five.

And the other three are…

Cal
Purdue
Virginia

Wasn’t Cal in the final top-25 that year under Tedford when they went to the Holiday bowl?  They finished second in the PAC-10 to USC, who went on to play in the national title, and the Bears were pissy that they didn’t fall into the Rose Bowl (Texas was picked), and then they proved the Rose Bowl right by laying an egg in the Holiday Bowl.  They were in the top-5 heading into the bowl game; hard to believe they wouldn’t have finished in the top-25.

BC

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Looked it up.  The year was 2004 and Cal finished ranked #9 by the AP.

BC

Yep.  The last time Cal was ranked in the final AP poll was 2006.  They finished #14.